With Passover falling midweek next week and thus work be pretty impossible we are taking some time off to properly celebrate the holiday.
There will be no print edition of the High Desert Advocate for the week of the 21st.
And we take this opportunity to wish all our readers a very joyous Easter.
Two years ago City Manager Chris Melville proposed spending about $35,000 to advertise for a new city CFO. We have no idea how much he finally spent but we do recall the city council approved the request without batting an eye.
In fact our council with the exception of our mayor rarely bats an eye when spending money. The multimillion city hall? Not an eye bat. The street lights? The skate park? Ditto and ditto. Perpetual raises to city employees no eye batting.
The only time when the council does do some eye batting is when it is dealing with people they don’t like, us, the Lauara Snyder, Scott Bangerter essentially most business persons in town.
Indeed our council seems to take a perverse delight in trying to regulate the small business in town while at the same time opening flood gates of cash to anyone without a West Wendover address.
What is the result of this policy?
Fewer businesses per population than any other city in the state of Nevada and a population drop of over 10 percent. Not to mention that big foreclosed building just north of the interstate that would have providing around 70 new jobs.
Perhaps the reason for this suicidal policy is that there is no immediate repercussions. No one hits themselves in the face with a hammer because it hurts and hurts pretty darn fast.
Adopt a stupid unnecessary law, impose a ridiculous fee or send the cops to “inspect” over and over again a business and the sun will still come out on the morrow and no bruising will immediately appear.
But pain delayed is merely pain delayed.
In just three short months our town will celebrate its 20th anniversary with these accomplishments: fewer people, fewer businesses, fewer jobs than there were ten years ago.
The celebrations however should be great after all the city hired out of town contractors for it. Spared no expense.
We would be remiss not to express here our pride in our son Arieh entering the army this week.
We know the task ahead for him is both physically and mentally exhausting and he is in our thoughts and prayers