A Most Unforgivable Crime The Storey County Sheriff’s Office, that noble institution dedicated to the science of poor press release writing, has sounded the alarm on a new and terrible scourge: people driving their automobiles in the general vicinity of the road. Yes, dear reader, it appears that motorists have taken to such reckless behaviors…

You ever sit at a bar and listen to a guy ramble on about how he’s got it all figured out? That’s what this feels like. A declaration of beliefs wrapped in the idea that if you don’t agree, you must be either stupid or evil. So let’s take a stool, light a cigarette, and…

The Nevada State Police is at it again, teaming up with the Joining Forces coalition to yank impaired drivers off the road. Sounds noble enough, but you start peeling back the layers, and it reeks of a well-funded sting operation. They throw money at other agencies, like a drunk at a slot machine, hoping for…

Well, I must’ve stirred up quite the hornet’s nest at breakfast this morning. There I was, buttering my toast with all the innocence of a newborn lamb–when I saw my dear wife eyeing me through the tines of her fork. Naturally, being a man of curiosity—and perhaps a touch of foolishness—I asked her what she…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is a certain beauty in destruction, poetry in letting the whole rotten machine sputter, lurch, and collapse under the weight of its hypocrisy. And if Senator Andy Kim and his Democratic cronies have the spine they claim, they might do the one thing that could make America great again: shut the…

How Nevada Lawmakers Sold Out to Clean Energy The corporate grift continues. More than a decade ago, the Nevada Legislature—under the iron-fisted whisperings of the late Sen. Harry Reid—set in motion a grand performance: the slow, painful execution of coal-fired power in the Silver State. At the center of this charade is NV Energy, the…

Bureaucracy Conspires to Scramble Our Breakfasts The esteemed legislators of Nevada, in their infinite wisdom and boundless efficiency, will convene on Monday to tackle the most pressing crisis of our times: the unconscionable price of eggs. Assembly Bill 171, a gallant effort to rein in the misdeeds of the villainous H5N1 bird flu virus, proposes…

Another Thursday morning in the Great Basin, where the coffee is weak, the eggs are powder, and the bureaucrats have gathered again to solve society ills before lunch. The Healthy Communities Coalition of Lyon and Storey Counties—a name so sanitized it could double as a government hand soap—will be holding its bimonthly breakfast meeting this…

And Storey County’s Lonely Drop The numbers are in, and they’re ugly—billions of gallons of water disappearing into the gaping maw of America’s ever-expanding digital infrastructure. Google’s data centers are the new industrial monsters, sucking rivers dry to keep their overheated machines from melting into silicon sludge. The worst offenders? Council Bluffs, Iowa—980 million gallons…

The 700 miles of mining tunnels beneath Virginia City had a pulse, a heartbeat as ancient as the earth. Above, the frantic rush of tourists snapped selfies and shuffled between saloons. Below, the tunnels lived and breathed with their rhythm. Rats skittered, water dripped, and the faint groan of distant pipes whispered through the damp…