“There has to be something to it,” his mom said as she took a drag on her cigarette. She sat silently waiting for Chad to reply, but he didn’t say a thing. He was too hurt. This was not the first time this conversation had come up and from the looks of things, it probably…

A state judge in Carson City says he’ll rule quickly on whether a Nevada tax initiative pushed by the teachers union and other labor groups is legally sound. Either way, lawyers say the case is likely headed to the state Supreme Court. The Committee to Protect Nevada Jobs argues that the Education Initiative is misleading,…

The other day my wife, Mary and I were discussing the professional painter we had out to the house to give us an estimate on slapping some new color on the exterior. And somehow I got tossed under the bus. Mary told me that the person who recommended him said “He’s not the best painter…

Nevada’s top election official is urging voters to verify their registration status to make sure their eligibility to vote in the November 6th election.  Secretary of State Ross Miller says an investigation by his Elections Integrity Task Force found no widespread evidence that voter registration fraud in Nevada. But Miller says there may be isolated incidents where…

It began in the early morning hours, shortly after I got home from the radio station. My wife fixed me a large salad and an even bigger plate of ‘nitro’ chicken wings. It took me about an hour to eat everything and wash it down with a couple of bottles of my favorite sports drink. By the…

On my way to work, a guy in an old pickup was jus’ ahead of me on Pyramid. He had an Australian shepherd in the bed of the truck – two legs on the tool box and two legs on top of the cab’s roof. While approaching the traffic light at Los Altos, I decided change lanes,…

Nevada’s secretary of state has referred complaints against Americans for Prosperity to the attorney general’s office for prosecution of alleged violations of state campaign finance laws. Americans for Prosperity is an issue advocacy group founded by billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch. The Nevada Democratic Party filed a complaint with Secretary of State Ross Miller…

Every couple of years we are given a civil project to complete by a certain deadline. It’s called voting. We have to research our subjects, whether they are candidates or issues, and educate ourselves on the positions we find most important to ourselves, our families, neighborhoods, communities, towns, cities, counties, states and our country.  We…

Having jus’ gotten off duty, I was still in my camouflage fatigues when I stopped at the grocery store to pick up a couple of items. Finished, I went to the check-out stand, where I ended up standing behind a mother and her young son. He was about seven and eye-balled me seriously for about…

Former President Bill Clinton is back in Nevada to stump in the campaign battleground state for President Barack Obama and local Democratic candidates. The former president spoke at the Springs Preserve in Las Vegas about choices in the presidential election between Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley and congressional candidates John…