I just got handed a life sentence. Like other irrelevant voters, I can protest, but it won't matter much. One eyelash-bat after the Nov. 3 election, the Washoe County Commission took the first step toward raising the sales tax to pay for depression of the downtown Reno railroad tracks. This continues the commission's reputation as most corrupt of local elected bodies over the past three decades. Not even the old Joe Conforte-controlled Sparks city council comes close, and that was one morally obtuse group.
Legend has it that one guy tried to extort money from a Catholic parish.
The current commission just put those pirates to shame. Union Pacific will put up not one penny in cash. To avoid reversal when two anti-corporate welfare commissioners get seated in January, the lame ducks are pushing a quickie bond sale. At that point, all who choose to live in this county begin serving a 30-year sentence of higher taxes. Sue Camp and Mike Mouliot imposed the ripoff.