• The Forgotten Death of a Forgotten Actor

    As an actor, Jimmy Ferrara shared the screen with a number of Hollywood stars and owned the TWT (Tomorrow Will Tell) Ranch in central Nevada. Only 65-years-old at the time  of his murder on September 30, 1985 in Yuma Arizona, it would take more than 20-years to bring his killers to justice. Born May 11,…

  • Missing the Missing in the Reno/Sparks Area

    UPDATE: Kristy Porter has been found safe. She apparently left of her own free will. Furthermore Sparks PD is now reporting that the family didn’t report her missing until Thanksgiving Day and that she has done this before. Kristy Porter has been missing since November 11, 2016 and not a word had been mentioned in…

  • Nevada SOS Opens Probe — But It Ain’t What You Think…

    As I stated back when she was running for Nevada Secretary of State, Barbara Cegavske is and always has been a Progressive – and yet the Republican Party embraced her whole-heartedly and without shame. And this week, she proved my assertion. Cegavske opened a criminal probe, but not into the 9,200 returned letters from active…

  • Election Fraud Found in Southern Nevada

    So, what do Willie Nelson, Edward Snowden and Waylon Jennings have in common? They each voted in Clark County, Nevada’s Assembly District 15 this last Election Day. Republican Stan Vaughan an Assembly District 15 candidate, who lost to Democrat Elliot Anderson, says the U.S. Postal Service returned 9,200 pieces of certified mail from voters in…

  • Needfully Obscure

    Over the course of the last several months people have derided me for not supporting Donald Trump for President. Others lambasted me for failing to support Hillary Clinton as well. Honestly, I haven’t publically supported a candidate for political office since 2005 when former Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons was running for office. I supported his candidacy…

  • The Myth of Fidel’s Redemptive Qualities

    Cuba’s literacy rate has only increase by 20-pecent between the 50’s and today, according to UN figures. Compared to El Salvador’s’ increase from less than 40-percent to 88-percent or Peru’s increase from 50-percent to 95-pecent or Brazil’s 50-percent jump to 93-percent and the Dominican Republic’s rate which rose during the same time period rose from…

  • What’s in My Wallet?

    My son decided to treat me to a movie, “Dr. Strange,” which turned out to be a pretty good movie. Anyway, we parked in the back lot and walked the block long distance to the theater. One of the things I am in the habit of doing is removing my wallet and putting it away…

  • Faded Glories

    After reading one of my article’s that talked about Del Norte High School in Crescent City, California having an athletic hall-of-fame, my wife asked, “Weren’t you an athlete?” “Yes,” I answered. “Well,” she wanted to know, “When are they going to invite you to be a member?” I smiled, “Never.” “I don’t understand,” she replied.…

  • Mom’s Portuguese Egg Pudding

    After going through every box in storage, I finally found it.  This was one of my favorites that my mom used to make around Thanksgiving. I can taste it now… Ingredients: 1 ½ cups milk ½ cup sugar ½ cup all-purpose flour Zest of half a lemon 3 eggs Cinnamon (enough to cover top of…

  • Gene Clauson, 1955-2016

    Several of my friends and acquaintances have passed from this world this year. Most recently was country music artist Holly Dunn, whom I got to know more than 25 years ago when I was still doing radio. And nearly four months ago, my friend as well as my son’s god-father, Gene Clauson passed away.  It happened suddenly and came as a shock…