Senator Catherine Cortez Masto secured $2.5 million in taxpayer funding for the new Lockwood Senior Center, set to open in the twilight of 2025. Folks in Storey County will finally get something they’ve been lacking for far too long–a proper place for elders to gather, eat, and get help.
“I’m proud to have secured this funding,” said Cortez Masto, her words ringing like a dinner bell in a hungry town. “This center will be a cornerstone of the community.”
With meals on wheels, transportation, a pantry, mental health care, and even a health office, it’s the kind of investment rural Nevadans don’t often see, much less from the far-off marble halls of Washington. Storey County’s Donald Gilman and Storey County Director of Health and Community Services Stacy York stood beside the Senator–a sight as welcome as shade in the desert.
But just as the good news spread through the hills like wild sage in spring, along comes Senator Jacky Rosen with a letter in hand and a mouth full of trouble. Instead of joining the effort to build something, Rosen did something else entirely.
She fired off a letter to Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. over at Health and Human Services, bemoaning recent cuts to IT and cybersecurity staff. Now, don’t mistake it as a defense of bureaucratic bungling, just more of the same old, same old.
But while Cortez Masto was cutting ribbons, Rosen got busy flinging paperwork like a clerk in a windstorm. Her concerns may be valid, but her timing feels more like an obstructionist trying to gum up the gears than a partner in progress.
Rather than help bring services to rural Nevadans, Rosen seems content to stand on the porch and holler about hypothetical hazards.
The Old Blog in the Desert 