If ever there was a finer specimen of irony prancing about under the desert sun, it would be none other than Lindsey Harmon, a proud member of the so-called Nevadans for Equal Rights Committee, wagging her finger at Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony for daring to suggest that women’s sports ought to be for—heaven forbid—actual women.…

How to Rob the Public Without Them Noticing It would appear that neither the stalwart defenders of American sovereignty in the DOGE team nor President Trump himself have caught wind of the latest scheme brewing in the sagebrush-dotted stretches of Esmeralda County. And one must ask, with a touch of astonishment—why, pray tell, is the…

When Laws Are Optional In this experiment called government, there are a few trifling matters which, in theory, should be settled without fuss—one is that laws get obeyed. However, in Nevada, a new and most peculiar doctrine has emerged–laws, it seems, are more like friendly suggestions, and duty is whatever is deemed convenient. The latest…

The good folks at Mark IV Capital have made it their mission to see how much of Nevada they can dig up and rearrange before anyone notices. Their latest endeavor, the Victory Logistics District in Fernley, has just wrapped up its first phase, filling nearly 2 million square feet with industrial space and setting the…

Millions for Fuel, Not a Dime for History Hrrumph! The wheels of progress turn, but not always in the right direction. Here we stand in Storey County, where fortunes are made as barrels of fuel roll out like a never-ending river of gold, and yet—the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, the very bones of our history,…

Legislators Tossing Nevada Down a Mine Shaft In the grand old tradition of selling one’s birthright for a mess of pottage, the 83rd Legislative Session of Nevada has turned into a veritable bazaar where independence, liberty, and common sense are being hawked off to the highest bidder—or worse, given away. Critics say the latest batch…

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It is a peculiar feature of the human mind that a man may, by some misadventure, find himself lodged beneath a sewage drain cover and yet be at a complete loss as to how he arrived at such a station in life. Such was the case in northwest Reno, where a gentleman of unknown recollections…

A Tale of Schoolboard Shenanigans It was a fine morning in Douglas County when the good people awoke to find that their hard-earned tax dollars—intended for the noble pursuit of educating their young—had instead been repurposed for a more scholastic endeavor: the instruction of public officials in the art of obeying the law. The lesson,…

The Art of Doing Next to Nothing with Great Fanfare The Nevada Legislature, that noble body of men and women who gather biennially to solve problems nobody has, has turned its mighty intellect toward smog checks. Senate Bill 230, an act of bipartisan genius, would spare the good citizens of Clark and Washoe counties the…