As if the tariffs weren’t bad enough–Nevada’s getting unsolicited imports of the more indecent variety from Canada now. Last Monday afternoon, travelers along Interstate 80 got treated to an unexpected—some might say unwholesome—spectacle when one Jeffrey Girard, a 49-year-old visitor from the Great White North, decided to engage in a bit of impromptu performance art…

Lights Optional Though Well, friends, it appears that NV Energy, that noble steward of electrical reliability, has once again demonstrated its unique talent for charging more while delivering less. Nearly 27,000 souls in Douglas County were treated to a midweek surprise when the power up and vanished, leaving folks squinting in the darkness and wondering…

The Great American Circus returned to Congress last night, with President Donald J. Trump delivering another full-throttle sermon on the virtues of tax cuts, border walls, and America First—a phrase that, when repeated enough times, starts to sound like a thinly disguised middle finger to the rest of the world. The Nevada political class, ever…

Last Friday, the Elko Indians squared off against the Fernley Vaqueros in a battle between two of the state’s top ballclubs. Elko emerged victorious by the slimmest of margins, a 6-5 win. For those who revel in minutiae, this marked Elko’s closest triumph since April 2024. Elko’s bats came alive as eight different players recorded…

Once upon a time, a man could open a grocery store, sell cabbages and bacon to his heart’s content, and let the people decide whether they wanted to buy his goods or subsist solely on jackrabbit stew and moonshine. But that was before the wise and benevolent hand of government invented the great evil of…

And Did It Ever Exist at All? Friends, gather ‘round and let me tell you a tale as old as dust—one that ought to be printed on parchment and sealed with the stamp of every government that ever was. In all its wisdom, Reno has found itself staring down the gaping maw of a $24…

Recipe for a Roadkill Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat with his sights likely set on the governor’s mansion in 2026, took to the Assembly floor Wednesday with a grand notion: taming the wild stallion of supply and demand through legislation. His bill, aimed at price fixing on essential goods and services—food, medicine, and…

Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and her noble band of enlightened colleagues have set pen to paper, demanding the Trump Administration reconsider its audacious decision to levy tariffs on Canadian goods. Judging by the tone of their letter, one would think that our friendly neighbors to the north have long been the selfless benefactors of American…

O wae’s me for the faithless few, That smiled sae sweet, yet proved untrue. In mirth they drank, in sport they sang, But left me lorn when sorrow rang. Fu’ oft I thought their hearts were mine, Through Fortune’s light and Fortune’s tyne; Yet when the fates did change my state, They fled as winds…

The road stretched flat and empty before me, a strip of cracked asphalt cutting through the vast and indifferent desert. I drove the twenty-two miles to Pyramid Lake because the walls had begun to close in, and the silence was too loud. The air smelled of dust and old ghosts, and the lake shimmered like…