Clark County Schools at Odds with Washington There’s a ruckus in Clark County, and it’s got the flavor of one of those old-timey soap operas, only with fewer swoons and more memos. With the thunder of an old Marine Corps D.I. laying down the law, the Trump administration has told the Clark County School District…

While not a learned legislator nor a prophet of petroleum, when the Nevada Legislature starts tinkering with gas taxes, a body can’t help but reach for its spectacles and squint suspiciously at the fine print. As it happens, there’s a fresh bill — Assembly Bill 530, they call it — ambling through Carson City like…

The Administration to Reclaim Idle Funds There’s a great commotion in Nevada, and it ain’t due to a silver strike nor a sagebrush rebellion–but over Uncle Sam deciding to clean out the attic and reclaim a sack of dollars that had been gathering dust. It is the $29 million in pandemic relief funds that the…

But Mind That Other Boot It’s curious when a politician does something kind-hearted and helpful right after an election year. Senator Jacky Rosen, a woman of considerable smile and careful diction, has hitched her name to a bill that would make military retirement pay tax-free. And bless her for it, as they could surely use…

Nevada’s Old Bomb Hands Offered a Lifeline Many people have spent their youth dodging debts, their middle age dodging matrimony, and later years dodging responsibility. But the stout-hearted souls who toiled in dusty Nye County did none of the above. No sir—they walked headlong into danger, wrapped in government-issue coveralls and carrying the kind of…

A Strange Notion of Liberty Having lived long enough to witness people try every trick in the book—legal and otherwise—to get their way, the antics of Nevada have all the makings of a traveling medicine show, with just about the same amount of sincerity. Attorney General Aaron Ford, a man who’s made a regular hobby…

A Lyon County Chronicle of Hope and Horror Now, friends, let me tell you a tale fit for the annals of contradiction—a tale that ambles through the dusty lanes of Lyon County, where good folks are laboring to protect the most innocent among us even as some devils still prowl beneath their roofs. Lyon County…

Virginia and her three friends—Alice, Georgia, and Willow—huddled around the coffee table, the dim glow of scented candles flickering against the living room walls. The bottle of cabernet sat open, deep red in their glasses, a little courage against the unknown. Waiting patiently like a stealthy predator, the Ouija board lay in the center of…

It was a fine spectacle last week when a mighty throng of high school and middle school girls, accompanied by their long-suffering parents, descended upon the Assembly Education Committee in Nevada, pleading for what ought to be the most self-evident right in the world–the right for women to compete against women in their sporting events.…

Well, well, well—what have we here? Another lawsuit from the great state of Nevada flung like a well-worn horseshoe at the ever-stoic post of Washington bureaucracy. One wonders if Attorney General Aaron Ford is getting bulk discounts on legal filings. Is this the 23,000th suit since January? Who’s keeping count? Certainly not the clerks in…