It appears that another one of the infernal metal slabs has planted itself right in the middle of Nevada, like a misplaced tombstone for common sense. The latest offender, a 12-foot contraption, sprang up overnight at Seven Magic Mountains, confounding respectable folk and alarming the Nevada Museum of Art, who had no more say than…

Ford and Lombardo Square Off If there’s one thing about Nevada politics, a quiet day is as likely as snow in the desert—possible, but only under the most peculiar circumstances. And last month, when Attorney General Aaron Ford released his 72-page tome of “model immigration policies,” it set off a political scuffle that will likely…

The good folks at the Nevada Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation–who, one presumes, never miss a meal–have released their January 2025 economic report, with all the excitement of a man announcing that he has misplaced his spectacles—again. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remains as stubborn as a mule at 5.8 percent, exactly where…

And the Eternal Rate Hike The Nevada Legislature, in its boundless wisdom, has taken up the noble cause of rescuing the common folk from the clutches of high energy bills—or so they say. Assemblymember Howard Watts, with a heart brimming with benevolence and a keen eye for rooftop real estate, has unveiled AB458, a bill…

Yesterday morning, the good folks of Yerington found themselves in a most inconvenient predicament, all because of an anonymous scoundrel with a telephonic contraption and a shortage of both scruples and good sense. At precisely 8:10 a.m., the Yerington Police Department, accompanied by the ever-dutiful Lyon County Sheriff’s deputies, descended upon Raley’s grocery store in…

I count the heads I talk to weekly like a prisoner marks days on a wall. Since I got the boot from the paper in Virginia City, that number has dropped from dozens. This week–it’s been two—my daughter-in-law and the woman at the bank. It would’ve been three, but my wife went to Southern California…

Davud sat across from me, a quiet presence in the small café in downtown Reno, his hands wrapped around a coffee cup. His eyes, dark and still, held something more than the ordinary wear of time. It was as if he carried the weight of all he had lived through. His voice, when he spoke,…

It’s acknowledged by all who have ever driven through Nevada in the summer that once the snow melts and the days grow longer, so too does the mighty reign of the orange traffic cone. Yes, friends, it is Cone Season again–that grand annual tradition where highways transform into obstacle courses, lanes vanish into the ether,…

The Nevada Legislature has before it a bill that aims to do what the Almighty Himself might struggle with—protect veterans from swindlers and grant them a few more well-earned benefits, assuming the state’s purse strings can bear the strain. Assembly Bill 145, proposed by two veterans who now pass their days making laws instead of…

Authorities in Arizona are searching for a family of three who vanished while traveling from the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas earlier this month. According to the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, Jiyeon Lee, 23, Taehee Kim, 69, and Junghee Kim, 64, were on vacation, driving a white 2024 BMW rental car with a California license…