• A Most Ill-Advised Use of a Shotgun

    Let’s turn our attention to where men are known to do some remarkable things—both noble and idiotic. Our subject is in the latter category, and he goes by Brandon Christiansen. At approximately 5:20 on Saturday evening in Spanish Springs, while most respectable folk were settling in for supper, Mr. Christiansen, aged 43 years and seemingly…

  • A Political Pariah in a Legal Pickle Barrel

    Michele Fiore is a woman whose penchant for politics and personal finance seems tangled up like a cat in a knitting basket. Once a Justice of the Peace in the fine town of Pahrump, Fiore faces the justice she once dispensed, and she is none too pleased about it. It all started with a noble…

  • A Gift From Home

    Blue Star Mothers of Spanish Springs NV5 Lisa Callen sits at her kitchen table in Spanish Springs, Nevada, writing names on a list. The names are of sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who are far away. She knows each name well. They are the faces of the men and women who wear the uniform…

  • Fernley Settles Score, but Churchill County Has Last Word

    With the stakes high and the lights bright, the Fernley Vaqueros proved they could deliver. On Friday, they stepped onto the court with a score to settle and left with a decisive 61-50 victory over the North Valleys Panthers. Call it payback, call it justice—call it whatever you like—but Fernley showed they weren’t walking away…

  • SmartAsset or Dumb Luck

    A Study Telling Us What We Already Knew The financial wizards at SmartAsset—a name that sounds suspiciously like a choice insult—have put their considerable brainpower to work and discovered, to everyone’s great astonishment, that people in America owe money. Their latest report, Debt Disparities in the U.S.: Regional and Generational Trends, unveils such groundbreaking revelations…

  • The Great National Knashing and Weeping

    With all its gears well-greased by the tears of indignant bureaucrats, the great machinery of the press has once again set to wailing over a most predictable affair. Thousands of recently hired government workers found themselves unburdened of federal employment on Thursday, their probationary tenure cut short by the merciless shears of Elon Musk and…

  • Nevada’s Electric Folly

    Much Ado About Three Chargers Gather for a tale of woe and despair, a lamentation fit for the annals of history—or at least the more comical sections of it. The great state of Nevada, promised a kingly sum of $38 million to dot its highways with electric vehicle chargers, now finds itself bereft of these…

  • Once a Beacon, Now a Flickering Candle

    The American Red Cross Once, the American Red Cross was a name that inspired confidence, a mighty force of good that swept into disaster zones with blankets, food, and the promise that someone still cared. But like many fine things of yesteryear—honest politicians, reliable automobiles, and one-cent candies—the Red Cross of today bears little resemblance…

  • Muckers Bury Serpents in Postseason Showdown

    If winning in the regular season were all that mattered, the Mineral County Serpents might have had a different tale to tell on Friday. But as it turns out, the Virginia City Muckers weren’t interested in old records or past glories. They came to play basketbal l, and play they did, steamrolling the Serpents 76-54…

  • Vaqueros Ride Past North Valleys in Playoff Clash

    When the stakes were high, the Fernley Vaqueros didn’t flinch. In a showdown dripping with payback, they settled an old score with North Valleys on Friday, galloping away with a 61-50 victory. Back in January, the Panthers got the better of them in a tight 51-48 affair, but this time, Fernley made sure there was…