It was bright and early Thursday morning—about the time honest folk are sipping their coffee and the more adventurous are considering whether it’s too late to go to bed—when the Storey County Sheriff’s Office set about doing what it does best–rooting out trouble. With the sun barely peeking over the hills, deputies descended upon 399…

It stands to reason that when a person comes into a country on a slip of paper like a Visa, and that paper up and expires like a jug of milk in the Nevada sun, somebody somewhere might take notice. But not here. Here at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, it seems the business…

In the Silver State, where the spirit of the frontier once bloomed like sagebrush after a storm, the Assembly has lately taken to whittling away at the Constitution as a man might shave down a stick of kindling. By a vote of 27-15, they passed Assembly Bill 245, a measure that aims to forbid any…

I took a day hike into the Eastern Sierra Mountains—not that far from home. Just a short three-mile loop from the parking lot, a modest climb up and down the ridgeline, meant more for stretching the legs than seeking adventure. It was one of those perfect days–sky so blue it seemed painted on, sunshine filtering…

I always liked to end my week out at Pyramid Lake—just me, my truck, a couple of cold beers, and a quiet you can’t buy. Right after the sun sank behind the mountains, I backed my old Ford into a shallow hollow by the lake’s edge. There was a tall tufa formation to my east,…

It might be time for stirrin’ up hornets’ nests on purpose when I see a man gettin’ walloped for tryin’ to do right by the ladies and the little folks of the state. Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony, a gent with more backbone than a sawmill mule and more common sense than a Carson City windbag,…

David McNeely, private investigator, just got told by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that he doesn’t have a First Amendment right because he didn’t exercise it properly, even though nobody ever did say you had to wave a flag to keep your liberty from gettin’ stepped on. See, McNeely’s name got dragged out into…

Here’s a curious thing–Mr. Aaron Ford, the Attorney General of Nevada–a state known for desert sands and silver mines has decided his grand duty is not to the folks who sent him to office–but rather to the delicate feelings of foreign trade partners and the poor, suffering Mandarins of global economics. He’s hitched his little…

Pull up a chair and settle in for a tale as twisted as a mountain road in a spring thaw. It seems the Nevada Legislature, bless their bureaucratic hearts, has cooked up Senate Bill 420 — and while the number suggests something hazy and carefree, the bill itself smells more like a three-day-old fish stew…

Absenteeism, Federal Funds, and a Shrinking Washington Now, I don’t pretend to understand all the goings-on of this great American experiment, especially when it comes to matters of money and government—which is to say, fraud and folly—but it strikes me as downright peculiar that Nevada, a state with its boots firmly planted in the dusty…