By Elinor Bugli — The Carson Chamber Singers, under the direction of Dr. Gary Schwartz, continues its 40th season with a pair of "North America: A Choral Tapestry" concerts on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, 2025. These concerts celebrate music by composers from the United States and Canada, including Andrew Balfour, William Billings, Aaron Copland, Kinley Lange, Morten Lauridsen, Stephen Paulus, and Shulamit Ran.

This is the second installment in a series investigating issues within the Carson City and Nevada Justice Systems, including plea deals, bail, victims' rights and more. If you haven't read the first installment in the series, you may want to check it out now before continuing: The problem with bail Yesterday, this series started by discussing plea deals – and how surprised community members polled were to discover that over 99% of Carson City felony cases did not make it to trial in 2023, with some charges being downgraded or dismissed to secure a guilty plea.

All levels of government have some sort of an oversight process for spending money. For big software projects, those are the very processes that result in the present high rate of failure.