The great state of Nevada has taken a bold step toward innovation—or, depending on your perspective, lunacy—with Assembly Bill 20. The piece of legislative craftsmanship proposes that the Department of Motor Vehicles be allowed the privilege of slapping personalized medical condition symbols on driver’s licenses and ID cards, presumably to ensure that no citizen goes…

It appears that the grand and glorious body of lawmakers in Nevada, never ones to let well enough alone, have once again taken to the noble pursuit of fixing things unbroken and breaking things that were working just fine. Enter Senate Bill 100, a measure so bristling with penalties and bureaucratic muscle that a man…

Gather ‘round, for I bring tidings of a most harmonious nature! Our dear friend—who, by no fault of her own, is also a celebrated country music songstress—Lacy J. Dalton, shall be gracing the stage come Friday, February 21, at that hallowed hall of culture and calamity, Piper’s Opera House. She shan’t be alone in this…

The Nevada Division of Outdoor Recreation (NDOR) has unveiled a new website, ndor.nv.gov, designed to enhance the public’s access to Nevada’s great outdoors—by first requiring them to stay indoors, fire up their computing contraptions, and navigate a digital landscape before setting foot on an actual one. In what can only be a masterpiece of modern…

A New Tax Notion Rides into Town The venerable sport of tax tinkering is alive and well in the Nevada Legislature. Assemblywoman Natha Anderson has saddled up a fresh proposal to rearrange the arithmetic of property assessments. This enterprising scheme, known as AJR1, aims to upend the traditional method of taxation, ensuring that when a…

The Trials of Travelers in Silver Springs Citizens of this grand and free republic, take heed! The Nevada Department of Transportation, in its boundless wisdom and fatherly concern for your well-being, has decreed that the great thoroughfare known as U.S. 50 shall henceforth be a most deliberate and vexatious impediment. Beginning Wednesday, February 19, and…

A Comedy of Errors in Three Acts Ah, my dear reader, let us wade through the murky waters of Nevada’s 2024 General Election lawsuit with a careful step, lest we slip upon the banana peels of bureaucratic folly and land squarely upon the hard pavement of misgovernance. To commence, we gaze upon the grand spectacle…

If you ever go to Virginia City’s Tahoe House and gander above the office door, you’ll see an antique shotgun. And if you asked who owned the piece, Shelly McGregor’s name would come up. Should you ask, “Who is this McGregor woman?” a local might squint at you sideways and say, “Shelly? Oh, she’s the…

What Could This Mean for Nevada? Ain’t it a sight to behold? In the grand spectacle of the 2020 General Election in Arapahoe County, Colorado, where 354,267 ballots got cast, a peculiar thing happened—something so improbable, it might make even the most seasoned gambler pause his hand. A solid three percent of those votes, tallying…

It’s well-established that some folks work themselves into an early grave to earn an honest living, while others—blessed with a more creative disposition—prefer to let Uncle Sam do the heavy lifting. Such was the case with one Candies Goode-McCoy of Las Vegas, whose knack for arithmetic, while impressive, appears to have been applied to the…