The Nevada Department of Corrections has found itself in a most unusual fix–a $53 million hole in its britches and not a needle or thread in sight. One thing you can count on in this life besides death and taxes–politicians talking in circles and that prisons ought to know how many fellers it needs to…

Now, friends, let me spin you a little yarn about the curious case of votin’ in the Silver State—a good endeavor if ever there was one. Back in 2018, a band of well-meanin’ Nevadans marched to the ballot box and hollered out “Aye!” to a plan that tied votin’ to the Department of Motor Vehicles—otherwise…

Chapter 1 Three weeks after his mother’s death, Jim jolted awake, his heart pounding against his chest like a drum in the silent darkness of his bedroom. Sweat beaded on his forehead as the remnants of the dream lingered like a fog. In it, he wasn’t Jim but Tim, living a life filled with laughter,…

It ain’t every day a man takes a long journey home, least of all one that lasts eighty-one years, crosses oceans, outlasts empires, and waits patiently in the soil of another man’s country. But such is the tale of 2nd Lieutenant Robert D. McKee, late of Portland, Ore., and the U.S. Army Air Forces, who…

Old School Still Stands By the great jumping Jehoshaphat, if you’ve ever laid eyes on a relic refusing to die with dignity, then you’d appreciate the grand old lady perched at 537 South C Street in Virginia City—the Fourth Ward School Museum, a four-story marvel of sawdust, sentiment, and stubbornness that’s been standing tall since…

Maybe Your Sunday Supper, Too Those good and noble lawmakers of the Nevada Legislature– the tireless architects of modern confusion–have taken up an old crusade in a fresh way. Senate Bill 156, a curious concoction of bureaucracy and benevolence, proposes the creation of an “Office for the Prevention of Gun Violence.” Yup, in the Office…

The Nevada Legislature has taken up one of those questions that folks tend to tiptoe around like a sleeping dog with a known temper. Assembly Bill 346, a proposal that would allow terminally ill Nevadans to seek medical assistance in ending their lives, made its way to committee this week with all the gravity such…

The American Battery Technology Company, a firm with more ironclad phrases in its title than a steamboat has bolts–has gone and sold off one of its dusty old parcels in Fernley—a chunk of land that, by all modern reckoning, had sat more idle than a dog on a hot porch. The patch, a full 12…

“Busy?” Sam inquired, tipping the beer into the glass with a practiced hand, the foam rising like a little cloud on a lazy river. Death let loose a sigh so long and weary it might’ve blown the dust off a pharaoh’s tomb. “I’m always busy,” says he, his voice rattling like a loose shutter in…

Capitol Riot Resolution Stirring in Carson City Some folks just can’t let the dust settle on a road once ridden. Here we are in the year of our Lord 2025, and yet Carson City’s decided to hitch up the wagons and head back—back—to the fateful winter of 2021. A time when a motley crew gathered…