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MBA Students at UNR Rub Elbows with World-Class Business Professionals

By Jennifer Burton
Experienced Businessmen Alan Deutschman and Dick Bostdorff provided their expertise to MBA students at UNR's School of Business

Northern Nevadans have a big reason to take pride in the MBA program at UNR.  For the fourth year in a row, the Princeton Review has recognized the program in its "Best Business Schools" guidebook.  The ranking is based on data from the school as well as feedback from business students.  In addition, Bloomberg BusinessWeek [...]

Sympathy, Support Flow into Local Newsroom

By Jennifer Burton
JK Metzker with his sons

Newsrooms are competitive places.  Each news station driven to out-scoop the others and get the big story.  When KTVN Sportscaster JK Metzker was killed while crossing the street near UNR, all that flew out the window.  "I can't begin to express the gratitude we have for our friends in the local media – television, newspaper [...]


Growing up in Northern Nevada Teaches Teenager About Life

By Jennifer Burton
Learning to drive the antique tractor in Fallon, Nevada

Guest Post by Amanda Gallop
In a big city like New York or Boston, a seven year old driving a tractor is a rare and strange sight.  But in a tiny town in the Nevada desert, this sight was about as common as seeing vultures perched on fence posts.  I think that everyone can agree that [...]

Rotary Clubs Train Local Teens to be Future Leaders

By Jennifer Burton
Northern Nevada 8th graders learn to work as a team during the Rotary Youth Leadership program

How do you take a bunch of teenagers and teach them to be leaders?  The Rotary Middle School Leadership Program seems to have figured it out.  Rotary clubs from around Northern Nevada asked teachers and principals from 18 different schools to hand-pick five teens from their 8th grade classes and hand them over to professional [...]

Pumpkin Patch Postcard

By Jennifer Burton
Pumpkins for the picking at Reno's Ferrari Farm Pumpkin Patch

I recently stopped by Ferrari Farm Corn Maze and Pumpkin Patch on the corner of Rock and Mill to get a taste of autumn; the kind of experience that's filled with Cornstalks, kids, families and baby farm animals.  The weather was perfect.  Full sun, blue sky and a hint of Fall in the air.
A perfect [...]