And I endorse their action, dammit! Hunter Lake Road to W. Plumb Lane was a twolane dead end when I moved here in 1971. A growing population and completion of the southwest quadrant of the McCarran loop made connection to McCarran necessary. It took decades. While it had been in the planning stages since the 1950s, the upper crust in southwest Reno prevented completion … [Read more...]
Hip-Hopping Mad Over Molesters and Mad Kings
What’s the difference between rapper Kanye West, President Donaldov, defrocked movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and serially defrocked NFL player Antonio Brown? Nothing. They are all the same guy who lusts for power over people and needs serious psychiatric care. Trump is America’s second mad king. George III of England, “the king who lost America,” was certifiably nuts but … [Read more...]
Trade the Confederacy Straight Across for Greenland
Czar Donaldov is choking in the clutch on the ultimate Green New Deal. He needs to sweeten the pot so that the US can acquire Greenland. I suggest trading Texas straight across for the melting Denmark-owned island. Most Americans should support throwing in the entire Confederacy to sweeten the deal. I can only fantasize at how that liberal, egalitarian Viking nation might … [Read more...]
Dennis Myers: Enroute to the Universe Next Door
“There’s a hell of a good universe next door. Let’s go.” -- e.e. cummings Dennis, Old Boy. In case I don’t get to say the following at your going-away soirée this Sunday (see below), let this suffice. First and foremost, I implore your many readers to save hard copies of your voluminous writings. As your friend and fellow historian Guy Louis Rocha said years ago, much … [Read more...]
Philippines to Burning Man to Ireland: Adios GOAT
As reported here last week, Nevada lost its greatest-ever journalist 10 days or so ago. The Greatest Of All Time (GOAT), Tribune alumnus and Reno News & Review News Editor Dennis Myers, was taken off life support on August 26 to begin organ harvesting. Brainwaveless since a stroke the previous week, the actual date and time of his departure from this plane are thus … [Read more...]
Nevadian Dennis Myers: The Greatest Of All Time
The GOAT is dead. Nevada lost its greatest journalist over the weekend. The Greatest Of All Time. The GOAT’s future was written in the stars at his 1948 birth: He was a Capricorn. Tribune alumnus and Reno News & Review News Editor Dennis Myers was removed from life support last Monday. He suffered a brain stem stroke at his Sparks apartment over the weekend and was … [Read more...]
The Trump Whisperer and a $40,000 Baseball Ticket
Is a Reno Aces baseball ticket worth $40,000? Maybe if you are hospitalized after getting hit in the face with a line drive. One recent Sparks victim came within millimeters of losing an eye, then got an eye-popping hospital bill. I wonder why my colleagues in the legit media don’t publish statistics about injuries at the Reno Corporate Welfare Ballpark. I’ve asked for … [Read more...]
Perfectly Nevadian: Joe Conforte, 1925-2019
Joe Conforte deserves his induction among the inaugural six honorees in the Nevada Hall of Fame. Nevada author and publisher David Toll (“The Compleat Nevada Traveler”) announced the lineup last week. Mr. Conforte was the only one of the six still alive. Then came news of his death down in the land of Cariocas and breast reductions. The only other name you might recognize … [Read more...]