Fresh from her speaking engagement at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law Student, spoke to 10 people in the parking lot of the Reno, Nevada Sak ‘N Save on Silverada Blvd. The event, held Saturday, was part of an effort to get Nevadans to the polls on the first day of…

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are making campaign stops in Las Vegas on back-to-back days. Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan will make their first joint appearance Tuesday in Nevada when they appear at a rally at the Henderson Pavilion. Obama is scheduled to attend a grassroots rally late Wednesday night in…

It was always one home improvement project after another with my parents. Mom and Dad planned to turn the garage into a family room; there was the sidewalk widening project; followed by building a flower bed bordered by black and white speckled river rock. Working with Dad for nearly a month, I helped dig post…

The number of Nevadans filing initial claims for jobless benefits fell in September to the lowest level in five years. The state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation says the 13,932 claims filed last month are the least since 2007. September’s filings compare with 16,693 claims filed in the same month last year, with claims…

Vice President Joe Biden kicked off a two-day campaign swing through Nevada on Wednesday by appealing to Nevadans to get to the polls as soon as early voting begins Saturday. He told a crowd of more than 300 in a ballroom at a Reno convention center, “If we win Nevada, we will win this election.”…

Shuttered for a three-month period during the winter and vandalized, the boss decided to hire an extra person to help keep an eye on the place as Rob and I repaired fence lines and attended the cows we’d already drove up top. Our new roustabout, Jesus, arrived shortly afterwards. Jesus’ was short on English-speaking ability and at…

When I was a Senior in high school, I met a girl who was a Freshman. Every time I tried to pay her a compliment, she had some sort of snide comeback and eventually stopped talking to her. It wasn’t until several years later, when I was managing a photo lab, that a man came…

Despite going after and winning two convictions in 2008’s ACORN “Blackjacking” where canvassers were paid based on the number of voters registered, Nevada’s Secretary of State Ross Miller accepted funding from the SoS Project (SSP) two-years earlier.  The donation tainted Miller’s reputation. The SSP was created by the Democracy Alliance in 2005, funded by George…

There is a little known character that helped shape Nevada’s history, which seems to have been lost in the Mob-land story of Las Vegas.  Nola Hahn established himself as a leading expert on designing gambling pits that could be hidden away by panels or other camouflaging contraptions in case of a bust. This was during the days…

2000 The Easterner in a praire schooner Venturing overland America, Living, luck and lonliness viewing A field broken only by trees. Winds creating waves in the grass, Splashing against the waiting woods. Seas upon a shoreline rock, Venturing overland — America.