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Ton0pah's proud of NRMC, vayrump should be too!
I will be the first to admit that I am often critical of the events that To those of you who would shake their heads at the commissioners
transpire around us. It is easy to develop a "negativism" in the
Kingdom of Nye.
However, I try very hard to keep my eyes and ears open for all the
good things that happen also. Especially for bad things that turn out
good. Nothing is better than that.
I've bitten my lip quite often lately by trying to not say anything
about Nye Regional Medical Center. Every
time I've talked about it in the past, thinking
it was making a turn-around, the bottom
dropped out and the county wound up shov-
eling more money into it.
Well, the time has finally come for me to
make the plunge on this. The hospital, NRMC,
has clearly made a turn-around and is actu-
ally running in the black. Without county
money.
Ever since the state of Nevada stepped into the picture the hospital
has been making leaps and bounds.
The Nye County Commissioners recently appointed a new CEO for
the hospital and he approached the commissioners to discuss plans for
the direction the hospital should take.
Let's welcome aboard Bill Welch as the hospital's new CEO. Wel-
come to Tonopah, Bill! You certainly don't need to hear it from me
about how critically important your work is to this community. I wish
you continued success and we all tip our hat to the hospital for making
such tremendous progress.
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Congratulations to
NRMC staff for
'Making it Work'
and make comments that it was a mess in their hands.., don't forget it
was the commissioners that welcomed the state to help change the
situation. Don't forget it was the commissioners that kept this hospital
alive in the most difficult of situations.
And those of you in Tonopah that have taken such a disdained
attitude toward the Payrump commissioners.., without their support,
often against the wishes of their con-
stituents, this hospital would be empty
by now. Voting against the wishes of
your constituents is an extremely haz-
ardous thing to do politically. These
commissioners had the guts to do what
was right.
While it's true that Commissioner
Dick Carver was always the most vocal
supporter of the hospital, it was Com-
missioners Cameron McRae and Ira Copass who made it possible for
this hospital to see the light of day.
And to the people of Payrnmp who demanded this hospital be shut
down... Nuts! While the "other" paper referred to NRMC as a black
hole sucking money, this paper always supported NRMC. I'm proud of
that, too.
Congratulations are in order all around.
To Cameron and Red: "Think you'U ever reach a point in time where
you'll be able to look back and laugh about all this?"
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Your vote can really count here
In a "New York Times" story on vote-buying in Dodge County, Ga,
a spokesperson for the Georgia secretary of state tried to describe the
depth of the problem: "We literally had people who said they had no
idea that selling your vote was illegal. "One guy said, "It's my vote; I
can do what I want with it."
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lby Joe Richards
from the
Kingdom of Nye
Whether you
hate him or love
him, he won't let
you ignore him!
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