By Dennis Cassinelli Beyond Fort Churchill and Buckland’s Station through the area now known as Churchill County, the history of the Pony Express Stations becomes a confusing mess. Captain James H. Simpson blazed a trail across central Nevada that roughly follows U.S. Highway 50 across Nevada and Utah in 1859 and 1860. This became known as the Simpson Route or the Central … [Read more...]
Time is Running Out for Public Records Reform This Session
By Richard Karpel Sometimes the gears of the Legislature get jammed for no good reason and only a massive outcry from the people can get them unstuck. That’s where we are with Senate Bill 287, which would make government more transparent and accountable by adding teeth to the state’s Public Records Act. Senator David Parks (D-7), the primary sponsor of the bill, and Right … [Read more...]
50 years in Nevada: Trying to outlive them all
I got paroled from the Hotel California 50 years ago this Saturday. It was kinda ordained in the stars if not myself. My erstwhile fiancé took me to a lecture at a little church near Fresno State in late 1968. The speaker was a tall, silver-haired educator, elegant in a full length sweater dress. She spoke of electric auras, astral projections and all things spiritual … [Read more...]
Bill would shred state Read by 3 law
A gaggle of Democrats in Carson City have proffered a bill that would gut Nevada’s Read by 3 law like a fish. In 2015 lawmakers voted to require schools to have students who have not achieved proficiency in reading by the end of the third grade to be retained in the third grade for another year. It was modeled after a law passed in Florida in 2002 that quickly reduced … [Read more...]
Moving gold posts
Whenever you are faced with an unsolvable problem the easiest thing to do is to move the parameters of the difficulty facing you. Such is the case with the Democrat Presidential candidates. Their problem is to figure a way to beat Trump in 2020. Since they have no pressing issues such as the economy in the United States, standing in the world they have to resort to impossible … [Read more...]
Action makes words credible
Couples and families come to therapy. They come hoping for change. They come looking for a way out of stuckness. They come looking for hope and solutions. They come as an act of faith. They come as an act of courage. Or because the mate or the parent put them in a metaphorical headlock and dragged them there under protest. They come because, from the inside of great intimacy, … [Read more...]
Even in Sparks, God works in mysterious ways
The hand of God stopped me from becoming bi-partisan last Saturday evening after I spent the day wallpapering the world with fair and balanced announcements. The local Democratic Party hosted its annual crab feed at the City of Sparks Community Center. Meanwhile, the Washoe Republican Party produced its annual Lincoln (mea maxima culpa) Day Dinner at Reno’s Atlantis … [Read more...]
Court ruling will curb asset forfeiture abuses
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally brought the hammer down on the abusive law enforcement practice of civil asset forfeitures — seizing of cars, money and property simply because it might have some tenuous link to some alleged crime. The court has unanimously ruled that such seizures can violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against excessive fines. The case involved … [Read more...]