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If there were ever a contest judged by the phrase “well, of course it is,” Nevada has just taken home the trophy, the ribbon, and possibly the slot machine it was sitting next to. In one of those exercises where people compare things everybody already knows, WalletHub has ranked Nevada
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There are two kinds of people in Nevada: those who are lost, and those who are merely waiting their turn. The desert has a talent for swallowing things whole: wagons, dreams, marriages, political promises, and occasionally people themselves. It stretches across the state like an ocean that forgot how to
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There are many great institutions in the American Republic. Congress is one, though it has not shown signs of life in years. The railroads were another, before they learned that arriving on time was bad for business. But among the noblest inventions of modern civilization is the police dog, an
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It has come to my attention, through the fog of advancing years and the occasional haze of medicinal whiskey, that our fair Virginia City has added yet another peculiar celebration to its calendar of festivities. The "Mother's Day Flower Crawl" happened on May 6. Now, in
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Now, if a man ever finds himself ascending the Geiger Grade, the twisty, vertical staircase of a road that hoists you up to the high-heeled majesty of Virginia City, he is liable to feel a touch of lonesomeness. The kind that creeps in from the thin air and the dizzying
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Carson City Health and Human Services has confirmed a case of Hantavirus in the Quad-County region, meaning Storey, Lyon, Douglas, and Carson City now share not only government coordination but also, apparently, the occasional microscopic menace carried by creatures with more ambition than sense. Hantavirus, for those unacquainted, is a
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In Virginia City, the morning does not arrive so much as it imposes. It comes creeping over the hills like a bill collector, unwelcome and punctual, and finds a man in no condition to receive it. There are those rare citizens who greet the day with a smile. These people
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Storey County, where the roads are twisted, ambition is straight, and the traffic behaves as if it has read neither the signs nor the prayers, has again decided that salvation lies in adding a little more asphalt and calling it collaboration. At the April 21 meeting of the Board of
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Virginia City has always had a talent for mining things out of the ground, silver in one century, trouble in the next, and occasionally both in the same afternoon. On April 23, just about the time honest citizens were deciding whether to call it an early dinner or a late
In the year 1999, the good people entrusted with the education of Washoe County’s smallest citizens took a firm and thoughtful stand against a grave public menace: the humble swing set. For reasons of safety, and perhaps a suspicion that joy, once airborne, is difficult to regulate, the district
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A man may learn a great many things in this life, some from books, some from experience, and the rest from watching another fellow make a spectacle of himself. It was my privilege, on one memorable evening, to receive instruction of the latter sort, courtesy of Mr. John Henry Crown
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In the sleepy stretches of Lockwood in Storey County, where the tumbleweeds outnumbered people, and common sense is considered a luxury, two modern-day Prospero apprentices decided to conduct chemical experiments in a motorcar. Joseph Caldwell, a man from Reno with all the cunning of a wet sponge, and Jordan Hall,