When I lodge at Tahoe House in Virginia City, it is invariably in Room 14. Familiar and serene, it always retained a peculiar chill, even with the heater steadily running. One winter’s eve, just before the break of dawn, a particularly icy draft stole through the room, sending shivers racing along my arms. Shivering, I reached down to tug my blankets higher, but my fingers brushed against something cool and solid. It was unmistakably a bracelet, with its metal links cold, solid, and foreign to my touch. Blinking in disbelief, I dismissed it as a trick of the light,…

A power outage at the Washoe County Registrar of Voters office on Monday afternoon, November 11, allegedly brought vote tabulation to a temporary halt, leaving staff working in the dark for over an hour. Power reportedly went down around 3:45 p.m., affecting the Washoe County Administration Complex where the Registrar’s office is. Video footage showed…

As Nevada’s election counting stretches beyond Election Day, concerns continue about the transparency, security, and speed of mail-in ballot processing. With power outages, data discrepancies, and counting delays in Washoe and Clark counties, voters and officials are pressing the Nevada Secretary of State (SoS), the USPS, and the USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG)…

Growing up under Mom and Dad was marked by strictness and scarcity. We lived in a creaky old house, its walls thin, barely keeping out the chill in the long winters. I was the eldest, with my younger brother and two little sisters, and we four grew up in the shadow of our parents’ heavy…

In a video taken on Monday, November 4, by an 11-year-old student at Lied STEM Academy, an English Language Arts teacher was filmed delivering an anti-Trump monologue to her sixth-grade class. The video, recorded on a district-issued laptop, shows teacher Courtney Lichtenwalner discussing her political opinions in a class meant for language arts, engaging students…

Keep bellied up to the bar, his hat tipped low, the dust of a long day trailing him like a shadow. He nodded to Billy, the barkeep, and asked for a hot cup of coffee. Billy disappeared to the back and returned with a steaming mug, setting it down in front of Keep without a…

Discrepancies in Washoe County’s data are raising eyebrows and deserve immediate attention. According to the latest data, 1,441,490 people voted in the presidential race, with 1,442,838 votes counted in the Senate race. It suggests either 18,652 ballots, with only presidential votes, or that 18,652 ballots disappeared entirely. Which is it? Only a thorough hand count…

In the wake of an anonymous wave of racist texts targeting Nevada residents, Attorney General Aaron Ford has voiced outrage, swiftly calling for investigations and urging victims to report the messages. While essential to condemn so-called hate speech and harassment, Nevada residents are questioning whether Ford’s priorities are unaligned with the state’s pressing concerns. The…

The cadence of memory and the dust of ages weigh heavy and thick on our shelves, in brittle spines and crumbling pages that our parental generation clutched like lifelines. They clung to Kerouac, his essence pouring over highways and neon nights, and to Hemingway, captivated by his tales of bullet-riddled afternoons and salt-stained horizons. Those…

Handsome, ain’t he? Reckon there’s no beast ‘round here to beat him. Ain’t that right, Blue? Ol’ boy, you shine like silver straight from the mountain. Easy now, steady. Feel that muscle—solid like ore but smooth as silk. Go on, Buck, lead him out let< folks get a look at a Comstock stallion. Nevada-bred, sure…