Senator Catherine Cortez Masto secured $2.5 million in taxpayer funding for the new Lockwood Senior Center, set to open in the twilight of 2025. Folks in Storey County will finally get something they’ve been lacking for far too long–a proper place for elders to gather, eat, and get help. “I’m proud to have secured this…

It breaks the heart just a little to see a newspaper go belly-up — even one where half the words read like Chinese to a fellow who never did get the hang of Spanish. You don’t have to read every line to know when something came with import. You could see it in how the…

If there’s anything more American than planting a tree and giving a speech about it, I’ve yet to witness it. On a fine Friday in Carson City—where the wind is as persistent as a politician’s hot breath and the sun burns hotter than a Fourth of July pie contest—the good ladies of the Nevada State…

It came to pass on a fine Saturday, the kind of day when the sun shines just enough to remind a man he ought to be doing something useful, that a citizen of mysterious intention took it upon himself to challenge the authority of law and custom by sprinting away from a deputy of the…

Heads for Prison Instead of Podium Now, I ain’t one to gossip, much, but if ever there was a tale worth telling twice, it’s the one about John Jessup — a feller from Shirley County, Indiana, who mistook politics for privilege and whiskey for wisdom. At the tender age of fifty, Mr. Jessup, a Republican…

It may surprise the casual observer of the great Silver State, with its noble mountains and ignoble tax base, that the mood in Carson City is less celebratory than a cat in a rainstorm. The reason? A solemn convocation of economists—five in number, each more learned than the last, and all of them employed in…

My wife, Mary, left a 30-roll pack of toilet paper by our indoor trash bins last night. Dawn hadn’t broken. The air was cold and sharp. I started the truck, engine grumbling, and headed out. Realizing I had forgotten my briefcase, I went back inside. Coming out, I saw the toilet paper was gone. It…

you ask advice. sure. you light a cigarette with the wrong end of a match and expect the smoke to spell salvation. you come to me, of all people— elbows scraped raw from the gutters of last week, with two dollars in your sock and a poem in your head you’re too afraid to write. “what…

Having climbed so high, civilization is again a’flounder in the mud. On the afternoon of Friday, the twenty-fifth of April, at 4:48 p.m., an uproar befell the Taco Bell situated on East Prater Way in the proud township of Sparks. According to the city’s constabulary — a noble body of men who labor daily to…

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office, having poked, prodded, and puzzled over every splinter and skid mark, has seen fit to declare Highland Ranch Parkway fit for travel once more. “Thank you all for your patience and cooperation,” they said in a social media post, sounding much like a preacher thanking the congregation for not bolting…