Nevada is a generous state. It will give you sky enough for 10 countries, wind enough to sand a cathedral flat, and silence enough to hear your own bad ideas forming. It will also give you a spectacle now and again, if you are patient and stand where the dust can find you. It was…

I once rode for a man who had the decency to keep his wisdom short and his fences mended. L. David Kiley ran a ranch so far out that to this young man, it felt like Nevada had added an extra county just for him. It was only from Sutro Street to Pyramid in Spanish…

In Nevada, they have drawn a bright and holy line, exactly 100 feet wide, around every ballot box, as if democracy were a skittish animal liable to bolt at the sight of a campaign button. Step across that line with a pamphlet, a slogan, or an overdeveloped sense of civic duty, and you may earn…

Out in the Virginia City Highlands, where a man can hear his own opinions echo, law enforcement spent several hours persuading one citizen that court orders are not merely decorative. On April 28, deputies with the Storey County Sheriff’s Office answered a report that a temporary protection order for domestic violence was getting treated as…

On Wednesday night of April 29, officers went to a home near Tropicana and Boulder Highway on what was labeled a domestic disturbance, the kind of phrase that covers everything from loud arguments to the sort of sorrow that makes neighbors look away. Then the situation upgraded itself. Dispatch advised that a man had taken…

Las Vegas has many talents. It can turn a desert into a mirage, a mirage into a casino, and a simple morning bicycle ride into a case file thicker than a church Bible. On a Thursday morning, just after the city had finished pretending it would behave itself for the day, a bicyclist was struck…

Las Vegas is a town built on motion, cards sliding, dice rolling, neon buzzing, and people walking as though the sidewalk itself owes them winnings. So it is almost fitting, in a dark, but, and unreasonable way, that one of its longest-running stories would begin with motion too, slow motion that is. In December of…

North Las Vegas has a talent for turning ordinary afternoons into something that looks like a rehearsal for Judgment Day, only with better traffic control and worse timing. On a Wednesday, just after 4:33 p.m., that sacred hour when honest folks are trying to get home, and dishonest ones are apparently trying to audition for…

There are few things in American life more dangerous than a man with a pencil and a cause, and the Supreme Court has just reminded Louisiana of this fact with the gentleness of a hammer. On Wednesday, the Court struck down Louisiana’s congressional map, finding that lawmakers had drawn district lines with too much enthusiasm…

All too often in politics, those who climb the ladder will, upon reaching the top, kick it away for safety. Monica Jaye Stabbert proposes leaving the ladder in place and refraining from stomping on the people holding it. Announcing her campaign for Senate District 16, Stabbert declared that protecting public employees from harassment and retaliation…