As a point of disclosure — I used to work for Cumulus Media at their Reno radio station KKOH 780 AM. And I don’t like what I’m hearing. It is hard for me to listen to a station being run by management in Atlanta, Georgia, which forces on-air programming so general in nature that it doesn’t service its listening area. It’s even…

Nevada’s Governor didn’t disappoint Progressives across the Silver State as he urged lawmakers to raise hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes over the next couple of years. Brian Sandoval proposed a two-year budget totaling about $7.3 billion in his recent ‘State-of-the State’ address. It includes about $1.14 billion in additional revenue, mostly in the…

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is due to make a stop in downtown Reno, Saturday. He is one of a number of Republicans testing the political waters, and Nevada’s first-in-the-West Republican caucus is a little more than a year away. Unfortunately, I can’t find myself getting excited about him or his possible run for the presidency. He favors…

The Great White Fleet is the nickname for the U.S. Naval fleet that completed a circumnavigation of the globe from December 16, 1907 to February 22, 1909. President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to demonstrate growing American military power and blue-water navy capability. The fleet consisted of 16 battleships divided into two squadrons, along with various escorts.…

Canceled policies, dropped doctors, higher premiums and deductibles and enrollment nightmares, and  now 3.4 million people who signed up for Obamacare in 2014 are about to get large tax bills.  These tax bills could be as high as $2,500 for families at the upper end of the subsidy eligibility range. Furthermore low-income earners will face…

Spent my entire day out and about taking photographs. It was bright, sunny and slightly chilled — perfect for picture-taking. These are parallel fences that eventually met at the far end. I’ve no idea why anyone would waste their time stringing barbed wire in such a way. While exploring an old barn, I found what remains…

London’s Daily Mail isn’t shy about criticizing the Obama Administration with headlines reading, “America snubs historic Paris rally: Holder was there but skipped out early, Kerry was in India, Obama and Biden just stayed home.” This comes after Obama failed to attend the Paris Unity March against Islamic terrorism, instead to spending his afternoon watching the…

The media keeps touting how California Governor Jerry Brown has created a surplus while also balancing his state’s budget. But if one digs a little deeper, it becomes obvious that he’s simply “kicking the can down the road.” A portions of that so-called extra money will automatically come off the top for public schools, and…

Using the most recent data available, the online tax research organization, Tax Foundation finds nearly a third of all state revenue is still provided by the federal government in 2012. That’s about a dollar in ever three in state coffers. The lowest recipient is Alaska at 20.0 percent, followed by North Dakota (20.5 percent), Virginia (23.5…