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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
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In the spring of 1803 President Thomas Jefferson was suffering buyer's remorse. He had just handed Napoleon 15 million dollars for Purchase of the Louisiana Territory that nobody knew anything about, including the president. So Jefferson asked Secretary of State, James Madison, "Jim, what exactly did we
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My father believed a missed shot mattered. Most of us can trace parts of who we became back to habits or responsibilities that seemed small at the time. A skill practiced repeatedly. Someone whose respect mattered more than we realized then. Childhood often forms us quietly long before we understand
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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’s a tree outside my bedroom window that speaks to me. Yes, speaks with a perfectly symmetrical spray of pine needles that welcomes me when I rise in the morning and bids me adieu when I retire at night. It’s the very same constellation that welcomed me when
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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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By the time a Reno television crew came to interview my father about D-Day, he was already well into his nineties. Age had slowed him physically, but not mentally. Some memories remained as sharp as ever. The young reporter arrived eager to interview a surviving World War II veteran
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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