U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was appointed by Obama after his first election. There are numerous controversies surrounding his leadership, or lack there of, as the top justice official of our country. On August 8, 2011 documents were released by the DOJ, subsequent to a court battle, which revealed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had…

A few weeks ago my friends, Dana Markins and Andy Romero, a couple of paranormal enthusiasts, wanted to know where they should go to investigate stuff like that. I suggested Potosi, Goldfield, Chloride or Rhyolite. Since I didn’t know they had gone, it surprised me to get a letter from Dana. It concerned me that I never got the phone…

The end of Native American domination began in 1542 when Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo sailed north toward the future Del Norte shoreline.  Leaving from the port of Navidad in June 1542, Cabrillo’s two ships, the San Salvador and Victoria, reached Point Reyes by year’s end. With the winter waters turning rough, Cabrillo ordered his…

It was a slow procession of mourners and curious onlookers that walked the dirt trail through the Gold Hill Cemetery on the historic Comstock. They were all there to bring an end to a mystery nearly 40-years in the making. Traditionally, the story of how the two boys died, claims their father, Robert Jones, told…

The Nevada senator was raised in poverty, worked his way through law school, spent his professional life as a public servant and is currently earning $193,400 a year. Now Senator Reid is worth millions. In 1974, Harry Reid told the Las Vegas Review-Journal (LVRJ), “Any man or woman who will not be completely candid about…

Senator Harry Reid took to the Senate’s chamber floor with unsubstantiated claim that Mitt Romney has paid no federal income taxes for 12 years. Reid said that a nominee for a Cabinet position couldn’t get confirmed by the Senate if he made as limited a release of tax information as Romney has thus far. “His…

Jessie “Ollie” Clausen died in a nursing home in Fortuna where she had been living with her husband of 63 years, former Congressman Don Clausen. She was born Jessie Oleva Piper in 1918 in Mansfield, Washington. After high school, she moved with her family to Crescent City where she became a waitress at the Hi-Ho…

Along with the Klamath Reservation came Fort Ter-Waw. The name Ter-Waw is from the Yurok word for “beautiful place.” However Fort Ter-Waw, or Terwer as it is known, would not stay there long. Set up by Lt. George Crook in 1857,  buildings took up about 80 acres on the Klamath River’s north bank above the…

We call it the Roff Building, mostly because we don’t know what else to call it and it sits on the corner of Roff Way and West 1st Street.  Roff Way gets its name from a prominent Reno family that helped settle the area in the 1860’s. Built in 1936, my wife and her business partners…

Praised for her boundless energy,  family and friends gathered in San Antonio to remember her.  Jessica Ghawi, who narrowly escaped a shooting in Toronto earlier this year, has been laid to rest. “If this coward could have done this with this much hate, imagine what we can do with this much love,” her brother, Jordan told…