Russian “Airborne Assault Forces” will be arriving in Colorado this May for joint terror-war exercises with U.S. soldiers, according to U.S. officials and Russian military personnel cited in media reports. The Kremlin’s Defense Ministry and the U.S. Department of Defense both said it would be the first time in history that American and Russian airborne…

Early on the morning of April 3, 1962, workers were welding in the basement of Reno’s Golden Hotel. The oxyacetylene tank exploded, erupting into flame. The workers tried in vain to put it out, but before they could,  it was burning upward to the ground floor. New car, parked as a jackpot prize, caught fire and soon the…

Bipolar being what it is makes today a bad time to suddenly find myself cycling down. The last week I’ve been a riding a wave of ‘high,’ that’s been incredible — but now comes the inevitable crash. Dammit!!! My sudden onset of depression is tempered by the fact I completed the cover art for my…

Odd how easily — and quickly a day can get away from me. I started out writing an article on the history behind the western film, “The Ox-Bow Incident,” but got side-tracked when my neighbor came over from across the street for a visit. It was a nice visit and an enjoyable chat — but…

Researching family names, I happened upon a newspaper article that casually mentions a distant cousin — Joe Hufford. I don’t know much about him, other than his name, appears in other family registries. I ended up piecing this story together from that article and though it doesn’t involve him directly — I thought it interesting. Nine shots in all…

Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons was thrown off and kicked by a horse in 2010. He was riding with his brother near Pyramid Lake when the accident occurred. The governor, an experienced horseman, was riding an animal that had only been saddle-broke a month. Gibbons was transported to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, where he underwent…

Burning Man began as a bonfire on the summer solstice in 1986 in San Francisco when a few friends got together and burned a 9-foot wooden man, although some of the current organizers claim it started a of couple years previous. By 1990, the event moved to the bleached white playa of the Black Rock…

Being alone isn’t so bad as long as you like your own company,” claims Byron Pulsifer. Easy for him to say. Sometimes I think I spend too much time alone. Yet there’s nothing I can do about it. My work week begins Wednesday evening and ends Sunday morning. In that short time frame I am by…

I’ve been home from the radio station since 0500 hours. The house is still cool – which will change in few hours. Yesterday, I woke up at 1100 hours and it was already 80 degrees inside. I opened up the sliding glass door and our bedroom window to cool things off before tumbling back into…

An iconic radio and television broadcaster, who hosted such TV shows as “American Bandstand,” “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” and “TV’s Bloopers and Practical Jokes, ” Dick Clark has died at age 82. He became the host of “Bandstand” when it was a local show in Philadelphia back in 1956, and was a key figure in…