Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s 8-year-old daughter Shiloh appeared on the red carpet for her mom’s new film, ‘Unbroken’ dressed in a suit. She also asks to be called “John.” It seems the child’s request is causing a raging battle on the Internet. Parents are upset over the kid’s self-identification with the ‘opposite sex,’ while…

Boxing great Muhammad Ali has pneumonia. The three-time world heavyweight champion, who is also battling Parkinson’s disease, is in stable condition. Ali recently made a surprise appearance at the Nevada Division I state football championships at Damonte Ranch High in Reno, December 6. He and his daughter Rasheda Walsh and sister-in-law Marilyn Williams, were there to watch his grandson Biaggio…

The bill for President Barack Obama’s late November visit to Southern Nevada has finally been tallied up. Aside from bilking federal tax payers, his trip to explain his executive overreach on immigration cost a whopping $171,499.36 to Nevada’s state and local police. Henderson police forked-out $143,685.21 for Obama’s November 21-23 trip. Meanwhile, the Nevada Highway Patrol spent $27,814.15 in…

President Barack Obama held his end-of-year press conference before jetting off to Hawaii for a 17-day Christmas vacation. In it he said Sony “made a mistake” cancelling the release of the movie “The Interview,” after a cyber-attack on the company’s computer system by North Korea, and stated the U.S. will respond “proportionately.” Proportionately — in…

So much for Nevada’s first commercial UAV test flight demonstration as Sensurion Aerospace’s flagship Magpie crashed seconds after being launched.  Company exec’s opted not to fly it again until they could review control systems and figure out the problem, claiming it probably was an electrical controller malfunction. Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval was on hand to witness…

American’s of all stripes are all worked up over a hack-attack on a movie company and the canceled premiere of one of its films. And while it is important in the larger picture, it’s the smaller, less glamorous events that demand more attention. On December 4, the House of Representatives passed legislation saying the U.S.…

This is from my childhood friend, Debbie Hoyle, who says she’s had it stored in a box for years. Her mother, Mary Wolcott wrote and published the poem in the ‘Simpson Redwood Cone,’ in March 1956. It is about the December 21, 1955 flood that rampaged through the township of Klamath, California.

There are a number of memories of both the old and new A. Brizard Company, Inc., in Requa and Klamath. For me it was the large red metal building at the end of Redwood Drive that doubled as home for the U.S. Post Office, run by Klamath Post Master Earl Morgan. In 1913, A. Brizard,…

1980 My brother had always been destined for the footlights of the theatre’s stage and I, only to serve my fellow-man. As I was walking down my required path, I eyed that young fellow ambling towards me — decked out in fancy clothes, but staring at his feet. As he approached me, he looked up…

While most are happy with lower gas prices,  they will eventually cause the former Soviet Union’s economy to crash, leading to a world-wide depression, then war. A year ago, Russia’s economy was growing by about one-and-a-half percent and President Vladimir Putin was preparing to host the Sochi Winter Olympics. A year later, the ruble has lost nearly 50-percent…