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I have always admired people's ability to learn from experience. It is one of our finest qualities, right after stubbornness, impatience, and the conviction that the speed limit applies only to other people. On Wednesday, June 3, several vehicle crashes happened in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center. The
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Some men seem destined for greatness, some for obscurity, and a rare few who appear determined to become cautionary tales. Mr. Blaze Thomas belongs to that last category. Indeed, when a fellow is named Blaze, one suspects that destiny has already placed a wager on how spectacularly events may unfold.
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There was a time when a town worried about ordinary things. Folks lost sleep over cattle rustlers, highwaymen, and whether Cousin Elmo should be left alone near a poker table. Those were simpler days. Now we have progressed. We worry about giant warehouses full of blinking lights that spend their
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One of the hardest parts of faith is that God rarely shows us the whole road. Instead, He asks us to trust Him with the next step and discover the rest along the way. Just two days after his 13th birthday, Robert Mark King stepped off a Greyhound bus in
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Dear celebrants of America 300, It saddens me that I cannot be there to honor this cordial occasion with you, but I have been called home, and will have to witness your grand arrival to pier 300 from afar, don’t ask me where… First, may I congratulate you on
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Some events remind a man how astonishingly efficient government can become once somebody has gone and committed a crime in broad daylight. Most days, bureaucracy travels with the speed and enthusiasm of a turtle pulling a wagonload of bricks uphill, yet on Monday afternoon in Fernley, it moved like a
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There are many ways to measure the advancement of civilization. Some people point to electric lights, flying machines, wireless telephones, and other miracles that allow a man to ignore his neighbors more efficiently than ever before. I prefer a simpler test. Every year, on Hwy 50, hundreds of sensible modern
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Most of us can point to a moment when life asked us a difficult question. Sometimes it comes in adolescence. Sometimes much later. We suddenly find ourselves standing between the life we know and a future we cannot yet see. I think God often uses those moments to reveal who
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Only a moment ago, I was enjoying a jazz recording from some sixty years ago, when I noticed credit was given to the drummer, Buddy Rich, whom I idolized sixty years ago… A delicious memory came flooding back to my mind’s eye of a night out on the town,
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Well, I do declare that Mother Nature has taken quite a fancy to rattling the bones of Nevada's good citizens as of late. According to those learned fellows at the United States Geological Survey, a bureau of government folk who get paid to count the earth's
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The Nevada Department of Wildlife issued a public warning after someone spotted a mountain lion wandering through the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, which is proof that even wild animals occasionally make wrong turns. The great cat was seen on Friday morning moving among the warehouses, factories, data centers, and assorted
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Most of us can remember a moment when life changed direction without asking our permission—a move, a loss, or a decision someone else made that altered the course of our lives. Some remember it as the child who was hurt. Others as the parent. Many have been both. By