Washoe County: Don’t move mail processing to Sacramento
The U.S. Postal Service hasn’t taken into account how often traffic on Interstate 80 is delayed in its plans to move Reno mail-processing operations to Sacramento.
That’s one of the points Washoe County government liaison Cadence Matijevich will emphasize in a letter to USPS about the plan.
On Tuesday, the board of commissioners — after some members said they were caught off guard by the proposal — voted unanimously to give her permission to express the county’s opposition.
“I’m concerned that the quality of postal service would diminish by moving this sorting center across state lines, across a major mountain pass,” Commissioner Mike Clark said.
“It’s a great distance. There is weather, there’s traffic, there’s wrecks . ... As this community has grown over the years, and continues to grow, the last thing we need to do is have less postal service.”
The Reno plant currently processes the mail from four ZIP Codes with the first three numbers of:
● 895: Reno area
● 897: Carson City area
● 894: the rest of Northern Nevada
● 961: California
The USPS plan would mean that a
WASHINGTON – Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history who maintained his power in the face of dramatic convulsions in the Republican Party for almost two decades, will step down from that position in November.
McConnell, 82, was set to announce his decision Wednesday in the well of the Senate, a place where he looked in awe from its back benches in 1985 when he arrived and where he grew increasingly comfortable in the front row seat afforded the party leaders.
“One of life’s most underappreciated talents is to know when it’s time to move on to life’s next chapter,” he said in prepared remarks obtained by The Associated Press. “So I stand before you today ... to say that this will be my last term as Republican leader of the Senate.”
His decision punctuates a powerful ideological transition underway in the Republican Party, from Ronald Reagan’s brand of traditional conservatism and strong international alliances, to the fiery, often isolationist populism of former President Donald Trump.
McConnell said he plans to serve out his Senate term, which ends in January 2027, “albeit from a different seat in the chamber.” Aides said McConnell’s announcement about the leadership post was unrelated to his health. The Kentucky senator had a concussion from a fall last year and two public episodes where his face briefly froze while he was speaking.
“As I have been thinking about when I would deliver some news to the Senate, I always imagined a moment when I had total clarity and peace about the sunset of my work,” McConnell said in his prepared remarks. “A