By John Kimball If you look, there are opportunities for newspapers to grow advertising revenue in some categories – not in spite of the COVID-19 health crisis, but because of it. Even as things begin to open up, financial planning, home decorating, landscaping, local home improvement and other types of …
Read More »Winning back advertising lost during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Peter W. Wagner Many publishers and their staffs are worried about jump-starting their local advertisers following the COVID-19 shutdown. Although they’ve faithfully published their paper, often at a loss the last three months, some former clients’ media confidence and buying habits have changed. We’ve had three long-established weekly newspapers …
Read More »No Stigma Nevada: The ‘Talk’ Everybody Needs To Have
No Stigma Nevada: The ‘Talk’ Everybody Needs To Have –By Kim Palchikoff- Watching the horrific May 25 police murder of African-American George Floyd replayed again and again on video and the weeks-long protests and riots in Nevada and across the world reminds me of “the talk” my father gave me …
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No Stigma Nevada- Carson City therapist: How to deal with stress and despair -By Kim Palchikoff. As the COVID-19 pandemic death toll reaches nearly 100,000 in the U.S. and continues to rise, as do the numbers of unemployed, living with fear, anxiety, stress and even despair has become the new …
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No Stigma Nevada It’s the worst time to skimp on mental-health resources By Kim Palchikoff Mental Health Awareness Month arrives this year with Nevada facing a crisis it has failed to handle in the past and remains ill-prepared to deal with now. You don’t need to read reports and statistics …
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No-Stigma Nevada “Curbside Nevada: A helpline for doctors, by doctors.” -As told to Kim Palchikoff by Dr. Lesley Dickson, a psychiatrist for 34 years. Often medical personnel treating patients with COVID-19 experience enormous psychological stress. In late April, 14 Nevada psychiatrists, including three from Reno, established “Curbside Nevada,” a …
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No Stigma Nevada –By Kim Palchikoff Former Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa: Optimism, a return to normalcy and cleaning the refrigerator Most Nevadans know Frankie Sue Del Papa as the Silver State’s first female Attorney General. But there’s a lot Nevadans don’t know about the former Democratic Party …
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No Stigma Nevada: When the coronavirus ends, your marriage doesn’t have to -By Kim Palchikoff Note: Several Nevada marriage and family therapists collaborated on this piece. Stay-at-home orders are proving helpful in the struggle against the fatal coronavirus, but such severe isolation can wreak havoc on marriages and other cohabitational …
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No-Stigma Nevada: Obamacare can be fixed. Here’s where to start. By Kim Palchikoff As an Affordable Care Act participant, I expect last month’s long-awaited court ruling will have some serious consequences for me. The problem is, I have no idea how. There have been many rulings on …
Read More »Good year for public notice in Nevada, nation
It was a very good year for public notice in the U.S. The newspaper business has had a tough year but not because of public notice. Public Notice Resource Center tracked about 360 distinct public-notice-related bills introduced in 2019, including 80 that passed and were signed into law. …
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