In January, a man named George Gund died in Palm Springs, Calif. Gund was a resident of Lee in Elko County. He provided the funding for the very first Cowboy Poetry Gathering and sat on the board of Elko’s Western Folklife Center. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or [...]

While covering the ongoing news over the busing of mental patients out of Nevada by a state hospital, I called former Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan to interview him on the impact these kinds of disputes have on the state’s ability to attract news businesses. Bryan created the economic development system that existed for three decades [...]

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval broke his word in the last legislative session and decided to extend some $600 million worth of “temporary” tax hikes passed in 2009 to balance his budget. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

Being from a Chicago neighborhood that grew out of a tradition of being more than a little rough around the edges, and adding just the right amount of my familial, Sicilian cynicism, has made me the outspoken, in-your-face kind of person I am today. … The rest of this article is available to premium members [...]

I have to admit I have conflicted feelings about the gun show this weekend. We ran a column April 18 by Rose Ann Miele asking if the family friendly Spring Jamboree was the best place for a gun show. Although I didn’t agree with some of her analogies, comparing the gun show to a porn [...]

When it comes to establishing courts that hear cases only from military veterans, there are some individuals who take umbrage and feel that veterans should be tried only in traditional courts. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

Perhaps not since Benedict Arnold sold out the American patriot movement have we seen such a betrayal as that of Republican state Sen. Mike Roberson to all that’s held dear by the Nevada conservative movement this legislative session. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member

In the 19th century, a movement called “uniform state laws” became enormously influential. It involved getting states to write similar laws so that crossing a state border was not such a legally difficult process. Unfortunately, it has led to a one-size-fits-all philosophy and a belief that what works in Roanoke, Va., will work in Reno. [...]

I was sitting in the waiting room for jury duty I wasn’t selected April 15 when news of the horrific bombings at the Boston Marathon started coming in over my iPhone via the social media site Twitter. As I sat in that room at the Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas for the next [...]

A young woman with a concealed-carry permit, Amanda Collins, was brutally raped in the parking garage on the campus of UNR in 2007. … The rest of this article is available to premium members only.Login or Become a member