A Bag of Bad Decisions VIRGINIA CITY, Nev.–The desert has never been kind to the reckless or the stupid, and Caleb Harman, 31, of Las Vegas, appears to have been both in spades when he rolled through Storey County in the early hours of February 10 with expired tags, a revoked driver’s license, and enough…

It is a well-known fact that what goes up must come down—unless, of course, it’s the price of gasoline in Nevada, in which case the natural order of the universe takes a holiday. While the rest of the nation enjoys a delightful phenomenon known as lower gas prices, Nevada has boldly refused to partake in…

YERINGTON, Nev. – It was a bad day to be Jason Klipple. The 44-year-old, already branded with the ugly distinction of a Tier 3 sex offender, found himself in the crosshairs of the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office last Friday. Deputies sniffing around a suspicious car like bloodhounds on a hot trail stumbled upon Klipple and…

The bones lay where they had fallen, off Yankee Jims Road, down the embankment, past the reach of careless eyes. They had been there a long time. A woman without a name and no past that anyone could find. She was twenty-one when she disappeared. Halloween night, 1989. Wendy Abrams-Nishikai. That was her name. They…

A Most Unforgivable Crime The Storey County Sheriff’s Office, that noble institution dedicated to the science of poor press release writing, has sounded the alarm on a new and terrible scourge: people driving their automobiles in the general vicinity of the road. Yes, dear reader, it appears that motorists have taken to such reckless behaviors…

You ever sit at a bar and listen to a guy ramble on about how he’s got it all figured out? That’s what this feels like. A declaration of beliefs wrapped in the idea that if you don’t agree, you must be either stupid or evil. So let’s take a stool, light a cigarette, and…

The Nevada State Police is at it again, teaming up with the Joining Forces coalition to yank impaired drivers off the road. Sounds noble enough, but you start peeling back the layers, and it reeks of a well-funded sting operation. They throw money at other agencies, like a drunk at a slot machine, hoping for…

Well, I must’ve stirred up quite the hornet’s nest at breakfast this morning. There I was, buttering my toast with all the innocence of a newborn lamb–when I saw my dear wife eyeing me through the tines of her fork. Naturally, being a man of curiosity—and perhaps a touch of foolishness—I asked her what she…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a certain beauty in destruction, poetry in letting the whole rotten machine sputter, lurch, and collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy. And if Senator Andy Kim and his Democratic cronies have the spine they claim, they might do the one thing that could make America great again: shut the…

How Nevada Lawmakers Sold Out to Clean Energy The corporate grift continues. More than a decade ago, the Nevada Legislature—under the iron-fisted whisperings of the late Sen. Harry Reid—set in motion a grand performance: the slow, painful execution of coal-fired power in the Silver State. At the center of this charade is NV Energy, the…