Once again — the few screw it up for the many and in the true form of corporate punishment the many get screwed by a few. Common sense be damned! An Internet posting of a fist fight between students from Reno and Galena High has led Reno High’s student leader’s to cancel the schools’ Winterfest…

Asked once if I were to write a history of the Silver State, where would I begin? My answer:  Berlin, Nevada. That’s because long before it was a mining camp – and I mean LONG BEFORE – it was home to a prehistoric creature we know as the Ichthyosaur. In fact the area was acquired…

A private jet carrying U.S. Marine Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman’s flag-draped casket landed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.  A half-dozen family members, a flight of airmen, the base color guard and seven white-gloved Marines met the plane on the tarmac for his final journey home. The 2007 Pahrump High School graduate died January 15th while trying…

The FBI arrested a woman in Henderson on charges that she tried to vote twice. Roxanne Rubin, whose a registered Republican according to the Clark County Registrar of Voters office, is accused of trying to vote a second time on the same day. Miller said poll workers questioned Rubin when they found her name in…

It was nearing the end of the year and nearly half a year since I had last seen my son. Kyle was living in  Oregon with his mother while I continued living in Reno. At the time he had jus’ started what he called “school.” Actually it was a pre-school with a religious curriculum and he…

Fire officials say 29 homes have been destroyed by a 3,200 acre brush fire near Reno, that forced 10,000 people to evacuate their neighborhoods. Firefighters were able to stop the fire’s progress, but not before wind gusts of up to 82 mph sent it rushing through a valley south of town, creating flames up to…

A 22-year-old U.S.  Marine has died in Afghanistan.  Cpl. Jon-Luke Bateman of Pahrump is the first Nevadan to die in overseas military operations this year. On his Facebook page Bateman listed his favorite quote as, “Ducle et decorum est pro paria mori.”  It’s Latin and translated reads, “It is sweet and right to die for your country.”…

When white’s settled Walker Lake in 1881, they noted the local Paiute’s didn’t own boats. A local paper, the Hawthorne Arsenal, reported it was “believed to be have been the only lake in the country near which resident Indians had no boats, and they had no desire for any.” Two year’s later, the Walker Lake…

On Tuesday, June 4, 1963, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order No. 11110, directing the U.S. Treasury to produce $4 billion worth of $2 and $5 bills. The bills, supported by silver reserves stored in the U.S. Treasury’s vaults, were issued without debt or interest. The seigniorage, or profit from coinage, went directly to…

Like all high schools in Washoe County, this week’s been Finals Week at Galena High School. It’s also been a week of unusual activity with the Secret Service on campus preparing for a visit from Vice President Joe Biden. Amid this activity, which allegedly entailed one male teen taken from class for uttering something inappropriate, students…