There’s some confusion about the origin of the name Gabbs, in the valley by the same name, in Nye County. One claim is the valley, mountain range and city is name after engineer and Professor E.S. Gabbs. However its more likely named after William More Gabb, a paleontologist and member of a survey team under professor Josiah…

Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval is the newly appointed vice chair of the National Governors Association Health and Homeland Security Committee. This is a reward for his performance a the Republican National Convention “Like Republican governors all across this nation,” Sandoval said. “I chose to make the tough decisions.” Does he mean decisions like voiding battling both the state’s…

The year 1881 is generally declared the beginning of technological change in the logging industry. Up until then, men, oxen and horses carried the load. In that year, in Eureka, California, John Dolbeer applied for a patent for the steam donkey engine. Early loggers gave it that humble name because the original model looked too…

During his National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas, Senator Harry Reid demanded NV Energy close the Reid Gardner plant near Moapa Valley.  Without the slightest bit of evidence, he says the plant is killing nearby residents. Again, for Reid — the truth tends to be a tricky thing. For one thing, Reid Gardner is one of the…

Yet another friend has passed away… Debbie Raborn was born September 29, 1954, in Olla and entered into rest September 2, 2012, in Bossier City, Louisiana. She was the general manager of KBUL Radio in Reno, Nevada for a number of years, where I worked for her. Many times after I’d completed my air shift…

While he says he supports a federal land transfer for Yerington, Senator Harry Reid also wants it to include creating a new wilderness area in the region. The bill has already passed the Republican controlled House and allows the small town to buy 19 square miles of Bureau of Land Management property to be developed by Nevada Copper. The…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attacked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney about his tax returns once again. This time during the opening day of the Democratic National Convention for refusing to release several years of tax returns, where he also contends no other presidential candidate in history has been as secretive. “Never in modern American history…

Senator Harry Reid publicly banned relatives from lobbying him or his staff after several 2003 news reports showed Nevada’s industries and institutions routinely turned to Reid’s sons or son-in-law for representation. Now, questions surrounding those family ties are coming up again about the Senate majority leader’s influence. Reid and his oldest son, Rory, are both…

The all-absorbing topic in Stockton on March 26, 1906, was the trunk murder mystery — the finding of the dead body of a man in a trunk at the Southern Pacific railway station by baggage master I. K. Thompson and his assistant, N. Vielioh, on a Saturday night. The police were satisfied that the man’s…

A slowdown has prompted a Carson City business to lay off 100 workers. Chromalloy Nevada officials say the layoffs come after reductions in military spending and the flat economy in Europe and Asia. Chromalloy provides high-tech repairs and engine components for commercial airlines and the military at its two Carson City facilities. It’s at least…