Once upon a time, a man could open a grocery store, sell cabbages and bacon to his heart’s content, and let the people decide whether they wanted to buy his goods or subsist solely on jackrabbit stew and moonshine. But that was before the wise and benevolent hand of government invented the great evil of…

And Did It Ever Exist at All? Friends, gather ‘round and let me tell you a tale as old as dust—one that ought to be printed on parchment and sealed with the stamp of every government that ever was. In all its wisdom, Reno has found itself staring down the gaping maw of a $24…

Recipe for a Roadkill Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat with his sights likely set on the governor’s mansion in 2026, took to the Assembly floor Wednesday with a grand notion: taming the wild stallion of supply and demand through legislation. His bill, aimed at price fixing on essential goods and services—food, medicine, and…

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and her noble band of enlightened colleagues have set pen to paper, demanding the Trump Administration reconsider its audacious decision to levy tariffs on Canadian goods. Judging by the tone of their letter, one would think that our friendly neighbors to the north have long been the selfless benefactors of American…

O wae’s me for the faithless few, That smiled sae sweet, yet proved untrue. In mirth they drank, in sport they sang, But left me lorn when sorrow rang. Fu’ oft I thought their hearts were mine, Through Fortune’s light and Fortune’s tyne; Yet when the fates did change my state, They fled as winds…

The road stretched flat and empty before me, a strip of cracked asphalt cutting through the vast and indifferent desert. I drove the twenty-two miles to Pyramid Lake because the walls had begun to close in, and the silence was too loud. The air smelled of dust and old ghosts, and the lake shimmered like…

The Fernley Vaqueros did what they do best on Friday—win softball games. The latest victim in their path? The Palo Verde Valley Yellow Jackets–who found themselves on the wrong end of a 5-1 affair. Emma Masters had the Yellow Jackets swatting air for six innings, surrendering just one earned run on five scattered hits while…

It is one thing to get evicted, but it is a riskier endeavor to stock said dwelling with enough contraband to make the sheriff’s office gasp. It’s a lesson Miss Carolyn Cerney of Fernley learned the hard way when her housing situation took a most unfortunate turn—right into the waiting arms of the Lyon County…

Carson City Nabbed Him Good If ever there was a fellow who mistook the United States for a revolving door, it was one Guillermo Verano-Cruz. The enterprising gentleman got deported not once, not twice, but thrice—only to come striding back in like a man unwilling to take a hint. But on March 4, the fourth…

Nevada’s own Catherine Cortez Masto has gone and hollered “fire” in a theater again, only this time, the theater’s got plenty of empty seats. The esteemed Senator took to the electrified town square of X to bemoan the alleged wholesale dismissal of General Services Administration (GSA) employees in Nevada—courtesy, she claimed, of none other than…