Virginia City is a peculiar town. It takes no small effort to stand out in the throng of silver-tongued scoundrels, hard-bitten miners, and fortune-hunting gamblers, but Jackson managed it with an ease that bordered on art. Not for his charm or his wit—though he possessed neither—but for his unmatched skill with a revolver and a…

The drifter rode into town like a cloud dragging its shadow across the desert. His hat brim hung low, shading eyes that had seen too much. Dust clung to his boots, and his horse moved at a weary plod, the animal’s ribs visible beneath a coat of trail grit. At his hip, a Colt revolver…

A Modern Business Strategy Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a man of such exceptional virtue that one might suspect him of sainthood were he not so tragically confined to the legal profession, has joined hands with 16 of his fellow state prosecutors to bring us a revelation of the age: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)…

A First for Gainful Employment In a turn of events, the University of Nevada, Reno Extension, has appointed Adam Carpenter as the new extension county coordinator for Carson City and Storey County. It may not shake the very foundations of the world, but Carpenter holds a degree in philosophy and has found a job—one that…

Let’s turn our attention to where men are known to do some remarkable things—both noble and idiotic. Our subject is in the latter category, and he goes by Brandon Christiansen. At approximately 5:20 on Saturday evening in Spanish Springs, while most respectable folk were settling in for supper, Mr. Christiansen, aged 43 years and seemingly…

Michele Fiore is a woman whose penchant for politics and personal finance seems tangled up like a cat in a knitting basket. Once a Justice of the Peace in the fine town of Pahrump, Fiore faces the justice she once dispensed, and she is none too pleased about it. It all started with a noble…

Blue Star Mothers of Spanish Springs NV5 Lisa Callen sits at her kitchen table in Spanish Springs, Nevada, writing names on a list. The names are of sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, who are far away. She knows each name well. They are the faces of the men and women who wear the uniform…

With the stakes high and the lights bright, the Fernley Vaqueros proved they could deliver. On Friday, they stepped onto the court with a score to settle and left with a decisive 61-50 victory over the North Valleys Panthers. Call it payback, call it justice—call it whatever you like—but Fernley showed they weren’t walking away…

A Study Telling Us What We Already Knew The financial wizards at SmartAsset—a name that sounds suspiciously like a choice insult—have put their considerable brainpower to work and discovered, to everyone’s great astonishment, that people in America owe money. Their latest report, Debt Disparities in the U.S.: Regional and Generational Trends, unveils such groundbreaking revelations…

With all its gears well-greased by the tears of indignant bureaucrats, the great machinery of the press has once again set to wailing over a most predictable affair. Thousands of recently hired government workers found themselves unburdened of federal employment on Thursday, their probationary tenure cut short by the merciless shears of Elon Musk and…