All this week I considered permanently deleting, “Tom Darby’s Notebook.” I came to this after being told I was “full of shit,” by several people. I took their words to heart. But now that the time is here to push that final button, I can’t do it. Instead I’ll do a little housekeeping, cleaning up double postings, removing…

Colleen Rose Bruhy passed away the afternoon of April 28, 2013 after a two-year battle with leukemia. She was 79. She was born January 6, 1934 in Dacono, Colorado to Walter Shaw and Nora Taylor Shaw. Her family which included older sister, Norma, lived in a cabin in the mountains of Yampa, Colorado where her…

From: Tom Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:44 PM To: John Cc: Dan Subject: Questions about Reid and Judgeship Dan — Noticed that this was on our KKOH website, but never made air. It was originally posted 6am Sunday to the web and never made our news file. I updated the story this evening to…

Senator Harry Reid has nominated Las Vegas attorney Jennifer Dorsey to become a federal judge, however two senior partners at the law firm where Dorsey works made large contributions to the political action committee ‘Majority PAC’ founded by Reid to electing Democratic Senate candidates. Records show Will Kemp made a $100,000 contribution, while J. Randall…

A Nevada Sheriff’s and Chief’s Association official told lawmakers the chances of rear-end collisions would be “significantly less” with the passage of a bill to allow a motorcyclist to drive between lanes in traffic jams.  Bob Roshak of the association says he believes it would be safe as the bill is written. The Nevada Senate transportation committee took…

The oldest Nevada legislator paid lawmakers a visit to the Senate on Thursday, which passed a resolution commemorating him.  Wilbur Faiss is 101 years old and served two terms in the Senate from 1976 to 1984. Faiss came to Nevada in 1944 and was a small business owner in what was then an unincorporated area of…

Assembly Republicans are renewing their opposition to a plan being pushed by some Senate colleagues to seek a 10 percent tax on Nevada’s gold and silver mine operators. Members of the Assembly GOP caucus say singling out the mining industry for more money would hurt rural economies and stifle job growth when the state is…

Allan Wood spend nearly five decades as a technical artist and public information officer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, before passing away April 18th at his Sierra Madre home from congestive heart failure. Born in Pasadena on May 3, 1922, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history at UC Berkeley and was…

Nevada lawmakers are working to update candidate residency laws after a judge ruled a candidate for the Assembly didn’t live in the district he was running to represent. Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey of Reno presented AB 407 to the Senate Legislative Operations and Elections Committee Thursday. The bill aims to clarify that simply owning a residence…

Nevada’s Governor Brian Sandoval met with California’s Governor Jerry Brown to talk about Lake Tahoe and renewable energy, Thursday. The meeting comes under the cloud of Nevada’s threat to leave the decades-old Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, a bipartisan group that governs environmental controls and development in the scenic basin that straddles the two states. A…