The Nevada Legislature has taken up one of those questions that folks tend to tiptoe around like a sleeping dog with a known temper. Assembly Bill 346, a proposal that would allow terminally ill Nevadans to seek medical assistance in ending their lives, made its way to committee this week with all the gravity such…

The American Battery Technology Company, a firm with more ironclad phrases in its title than a steamboat has bolts–has gone and sold off one of its dusty old parcels in Fernley—a chunk of land that, by all modern reckoning, had sat more idle than a dog on a hot porch. The patch, a full 12…

“Busy?” Sam inquired, tipping the beer into the glass with a practiced hand, the foam rising like a little cloud on a lazy river. Death let loose a sigh so long and weary it might’ve blown the dust off a pharaoh’s tomb. “I’m always busy,” says he, his voice rattling like a loose shutter in…

Capitol Riot Resolution Stirring in Carson City Some folks just can’t let the dust settle on a road once ridden. Here we are in the year of our Lord 2025, and yet Carson City’s decided to hitch up the wagons and head back—back—to the fateful winter of 2021. A time when a motley crew gathered…

Clark County Schools at Odds with Washington There’s a ruckus in Clark County, and it’s got the flavor of one of those old-timey soap operas, only with fewer swoons and more memos. With the thunder of an old Marine Corps D.I. laying down the law, the Trump administration has told the Clark County School District…

While not a learned legislator nor a prophet of petroleum, when the Nevada Legislature starts tinkering with gas taxes, a body can’t help but reach for its spectacles and squint suspiciously at the fine print. As it happens, there’s a fresh bill — Assembly Bill 530, they call it — ambling through Carson City like…

The Administration to Reclaim Idle Funds There’s a great commotion in Nevada, and it ain’t due to a silver strike nor a sagebrush rebellion–but over Uncle Sam deciding to clean out the attic and reclaim a sack of dollars that had been gathering dust. It is the $29 million in pandemic relief funds that the…

But Mind That Other Boot It’s curious when a politician does something kind-hearted and helpful right after an election year. Senator Jacky Rosen, a woman of considerable smile and careful diction, has hitched her name to a bill that would make military retirement pay tax-free. And bless her for it, as they could surely use…

Nevada’s Old Bomb Hands Offered a Lifeline Many people have spent their youth dodging debts, their middle age dodging matrimony, and later years dodging responsibility. But the stout-hearted souls who toiled in dusty Nye County did none of the above. No sir—they walked headlong into danger, wrapped in government-issue coveralls and carrying the kind of…

A Strange Notion of Liberty Having lived long enough to witness people try every trick in the book—legal and otherwise—to get their way, the antics of Nevada have all the makings of a traveling medicine show, with just about the same amount of sincerity. Attorney General Aaron Ford, a man who’s made a regular hobby…