Davud sat across from me, a quiet presence in the small café in downtown Reno, his hands wrapped around a coffee cup. His eyes, dark and still, held something more than the ordinary wear of time. It was as if he carried the weight of all he had lived through. His voice, when he spoke,…

It’s acknowledged by all who have ever driven through Nevada in the summer that once the snow melts and the days grow longer, so too does the mighty reign of the orange traffic cone. Yes, friends, it is Cone Season again–that grand annual tradition where highways transform into obstacle courses, lanes vanish into the ether,…

The Nevada Legislature has before it a bill that aims to do what the Almighty Himself might struggle with—protect veterans from swindlers and grant them a few more well-earned benefits, assuming the state’s purse strings can bear the strain. Assembly Bill 145, proposed by two veterans who now pass their days making laws instead of…

Authorities in Arizona are searching for a family of three who vanished while traveling from the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas earlier this month. According to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, Jiyeon Lee, 23, Taehee Kim, 69, and Junghee Kim, 64, were on vacation, driving a white 2024 BMW rental car with a California license…

No regrets. That’s what Steve Sisolak says now. No second thoughts, no looking back, no sleepless nights over the businesses shuttered, the lives upended, the jobs erased like chalk on a sidewalk before a storm. “I wouldn’t change anything,” he tells reporters–as if that settles it–as if that made it true. But Nevada remembers. The…

A Mother’s Fight Against the System The military. It’s supposed to be about honor, discipline, and protecting the freedoms we all take for granted. But what happens when the system turns on its own? When the people sworn to defend the Constitution suddenly find themselves abandoned, chewed up, and spit out by the machine? Felicia…

And His Apostle of Common Sense It was a spectacle of democracy, or at least the latest attempt at it, when Vermont’s firebrand, Sen. Bernie Sanders, descended upon North Las Vegas with his faithful disciple, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Together, they preached the old-time religion of the common folk against the golden idols of…

The kitchen smelled of spilled beer and old tobacco. My grandfather sat at the table, a chipped mug in his hands, staring at nothing. I had asked him about the war. He didn’t speak right away. Instead, he coughed—a deep, rattling cough that seemed to start in his stomach and claw its way up his…

The Fine Craft of Wage Theft If there’s one thing the great state of Nevada knows how to do, it’s separate a man from his money. From the clinking roulette wheels of Reno to the dusty poker tables in small-town saloons, fortune has always been a fickle friend in these parts. But now, thanks to…

Nevada’s Costly Year in Fraud Nevada consumers, ever the trusting sort, managed to part ways with more than $138 million in 2024, a generous donation to the ever-thriving industry of fraud, says the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC, that diligent guardian of the public purse–or at least an observer of its depletion–received a staggering 24,331…