There’s a certain kind of silence in Nevada’s wide-open country—the kind a man welcomes when he’s watching the sun sink behind a range of stubborn hills and the kind that makes him check his revolver twice when trouble comes knocking. But there’s another silence, more insidious and less welcome—the silence of a state government when…

A Hot Day, A Hotter Bill, More Nonsense Well, folks, it appears the barons of NV Energy have cooked up yet another reason to lighten your pockets, blaming none other than the weather itself. Yes, dear reader, because the good people of Nevada had to endure a few sweltering days last year, NV Energy now…

And Also, Bed Sheets It has come to the attention of certain enterprising members of Congress that a frightful menace lurks in the digital ether, whispering nefarious secrets into the ear of the Chinese government. This ominous specter, known as DeepSeek, is an artificial intelligence platform born in the far-off land of China—a place already…

The Nevada Legislature, in its infinite wisdom and boundless energy for busywork, has taken up the noble cause of solving problems that expired when the state itself was much more than a dusty waypoint for weary prospectors. Assemblyman Reuben D’Silva, a gentleman untroubled by the practical affairs of governance, has taken it upon himself to…

Samuel Clemens—better known as Mark Twain– stood on the boardwalk of Virginia City. On a brisk morning, with the sun barely peeking over the horizon, Twain found himself in a rather peculiar situation. A heated argument with a cantankerous fellow had escalated to the point where a duel seemed imminent. Twain, not keen on the…

If ever there was a finer specimen of irony prancing about under the desert sun, it would be none other than Lindsey Harmon, a proud member of the so-called Nevadans for Equal Rights Committee, wagging her finger at Lieutenant Governor Stavros Anthony for daring to suggest that women’s sports ought to be for—heaven forbid—actual women.…

How to Rob the Public Without Them Noticing It would appear that neither the stalwart defenders of American sovereignty in the DOGE team nor President Trump himself have caught wind of the latest scheme brewing in the sagebrush-dotted stretches of Esmeralda County. And one must ask, with a touch of astonishment—why, pray tell, is the…

When Laws Are Optional In this experiment called government, there are a few trifling matters which, in theory, should be settled without fuss—one is that laws get obeyed. However, in Nevada, a new and most peculiar doctrine has emerged–laws, it seems, are more like friendly suggestions, and duty is whatever is deemed convenient. The latest…

The good folks at Mark IV Capital have made it their mission to see how much of Nevada they can dig up and rearrange before anyone notices. Their latest endeavor, the Victory Logistics District in Fernley, has just wrapped up its first phase, filling nearly 2 million square feet with industrial space and setting the…

Millions for Fuel, Not a Dime for History Hrrumph! The wheels of progress turn, but not always in the right direction. Here we stand in Storey County, where fortunes are made as barrels of fuel roll out like a never-ending river of gold, and yet—the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, the very bones of our history,…