Washoe County School District Superintendent Heath Morrison says making $35 million in budget cuts could mean laying off for as many as 200 teachers, administrators and support staff, and dipping again into school book funds and reserve accounts. During the same town-hall meeting one parent said if she had it to do over she wouldn’t…

Tucked away in a small bible Dad owned, I found the death notice and obituary for my Grandma Agnes Arne-Darby. I was only 4-years-old at the time, but recall a great many details about the days before and after she passed away. I was later told that she died from a cancer — believed to…

Reno 2011 — The Senate Ethics Committee says it will complete its investigation into Nevada Senator John Ensign despite his resignation.  However the committee cannot take disciplinary action against Ensign once he is no longer a senator, but could issue a statement on Ensign’s behavior and even recommend a criminal investigation. As recently as last…

Great-grandpa Will was a very old man in my eyes. Of course I was only four when I met him in Muskogee — where he came to be with the family when my Grandma Agnes passed away. While I don’t recall much about him — I do remember the smell of pipe smoke — and I am…

When I was in the eighth grade at Margaret Keating School, I wrote this story and have since added information and material and re-edited it a time or five. I left it in the original third-person form rather than edit it into the first-person format like I generally do for most of my stories. I hope the remainder of…

Reno 2011 — Last week a top Nevada state Legislature lawyer said it was okay for three state lawmakers to take overseas trips last year at the expense of an Internet poker company.   Legislative Counsel Brenda Erdoes says she told state Senate Democratic Majority Leader Steven Horsford and Assembly members Kelvin Atkinson of North Las…

UNR President Milton Glick was having dinner at a restaurant with his wife Peggy when he suffered a massive stroke, later dying at a Reno-area hospital. Glick, a one-time chemistry professor and former executive vice-president and provost at the University of Arizona, became UNR’s 15th president. The news article was typical, run-of-the-mill stuff. It’s what…

The photograph I have was taken sometime prior to 1922. I know that because the woman in it, my Great-grandmother Jennie Mae Babcock, died that year. The man with her is my Great-father George Washington Hufford. He died in 1950 and  is considered a pioneer having been one of the first white-men to settle in Humboldt…

Rancho San Rafael Park is located to the northwest of the university in Reno. Kyle and I used to go there every once in a while and visit the water and animal park. One of the highlights for Kyle, I do believe, was going to the playground — where he’d play for hours.  He especially…

The rodeo had come to town and I was working for KIIQ radio — pronounced KICK. We were the new country music station in town and had landed much of the coverage rights to the big show. For my part, I played station co-host to the VIP party and then the meet-and-greet held with the…