When Barbara Ellestad, the “reporter” for the Mesquite (NV) Local News (MLN) left her position as an elected official on the Virgin River Water Board (VVWB), she immediately launched into acerbic attacks on the owners Paradise Canyon and their business Wolf Creek Golf Course.

Supporting Ellestad is Kirk Kern, the Battle Born Media publisher for MLN. He has been advised that much of what Ellestad says is misleading, filled with innuendos and could be libelous.  Once or twice Kern has published opinions questioning Ellestad’s “yellow journalist” approach to the truth. Unfortunately, he most often lets her questionable work stand without opposition.

Now she has decided, and Kern apparently approves, to launch 5-part series casting aspersions against the owners of Wolf Creek and their supporters in a desperate attempt to hide from the public the questionable behavior of the majority on the VVWB and their attorney over time.

Nevada-today will supplement her articles with additional information that puts what she says into a context that is more suitable for an open and honest exchange of ideas.    

Ellestad proposes in:

supplement to Ellestad’s Part 1: