Editor's Essay
Who is the local optimist in your town? Not the one posting hot takes about the latest national story, but the person who is genuinely fired up about what is happening right here.
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Technology
From Microsoft's Reno campus to the Gigafactory's supply chain ecosystem, the companies building here aren't waiting to be discovered.
Infrastructure
While the national conversation fixates on scarcity, Nevada engineers are quietly building systems that could redefine what water infrastructure looks like in the West.
Economy
The companies that will define this region's next decade are already here. They just haven't made the news yet. We went looking for them.
"The things that actually shape your daily life are almost always closer than you think. They are happening in your neighborhood, your city, your state."
The Silver Lining is a home for optimistic writing about Nevada's technology, infrastructure, economic development, and policy landscape. Personal, biased toward possibility, and rooted in substance. Not the news of the day -- the story behind it.
Write For UsThe companies, founders, and infrastructure building Nevada's digital future.
Water, energy, transit, and the systems that make communities work for the long run.
Jobs, industries, and the economic development decisions shaping Nevada's next chapter.
Solution-oriented takes on the decisions being made in Carson City and city halls across the state.
In May of 1868, Myra Lake could tell by her husband's hands that the land was already sold. The day Reno became a town.
Read →In 1931, Reno built an entire economy around the six-week wait. The divorce colony that shaped the city's bones -- and what it left behind.
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Chris Reilly lives and works in Reno, Nevada. He is the co-owner of the Best Bet Motor Lodge and Reno Sauna Club, and an investor in several Nevada-based (ad)ventures.
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We are looking for writers who know Nevada and want to share what they are seeing. Is that you?
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Technologists, policy people, builders, operators -- if you have a story worth telling, we want to hear it.
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The Silver Lining is a collaborative project. The more voices, the better the signal.
The Silver Lining is built on local voices. If you know something happening in Nevada that deserves more optimism and more oxygen, we want to hear from you. No journalism degree required -- just something real to say.
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