I’m painting with a wide brush today, but it needs to be so: Washington journalists suck.  President Joe Biden held his first press conference last week. Of the 10 hand-selected reporters called upon by the president’s handlers, not one  asked about the COVID-19 pandemic or the flagging American economy.  That’s malpractice of the first … [Read more...]

As I confessed to you last week, my Nevada sensibilities get tested when examining the news for Battle Born Media newspapers in Northern California. For example, last week I sat in on a public hearing on whether to allow Costco permission to put in a 16-pump gas station.  Environmentalists shook in anger that the town of Novato would even consider allowing this. The … [Read more...]

As this is being written before the end of the Trump impeachment trial, comments on that will have to wait until next week.  Today I would like to tell you about Lucky Pierre the racing snail.  In the area of publicity, it isn’t often that you get to pass off a fictional story as heard news. In the case of Pierre that is exactly what happened.  The story … [Read more...]

Would you vote for somebody who put out a contract for your murder? About 74 million Americans did just that last November. It’s hard for me to sympathize with anyone who wants me dead. I don’t know about you, but I’d have a hard time supporting a buncha crazies who let the current plague get out of control because their promiscuous priest ordered them to do so. Last month, … [Read more...]

I get journalistic whiplash writing for Battle Born Media newspapers in rural Nevada and San Francisco. After living in Nevada for most of my life and now spending time -- more time than I should, perhaps -- in the San Francisco area, the approach to almost everything is so different. Take homelessness during the pandemic, for example.  The problem in rural Nevada -- … [Read more...]

The nighttime sky in rural Nevada is drop-dead spectacular. No pollution and no big-city lights produce dark skies and a blanket of majestic stars. My bet is most people who live in the great open spaces of Nevada have seen a UFO. Or two. Or more. Now, I don’t want anyone to confuse me with George Knapp, the longtime Las Vegas TV guy who is 24-7 all about UFOs, but I do love … [Read more...]

While I opposed a good many things Sen. Harry Reid tried to do during his time as a national leader, I don’t begrudge him the honor of having the Las Vegas airport renamed after him.  He’s the perfect politician to follow Sen. Pat McCarran, for whom the airport is currently named. They are two peas in a pod. One was a racist and bully in the 1930s through the 50s. The … [Read more...]

I don’t think I’m being overly dramatic when I tell you that there’s more hard rain coming following the fallout of the pandemic and our government’s decisions to deal with it.  Consider this tragedy that happened in one of the towns in which Battle Born Media publishes a community newspaper. (I hope it hasn’t happened in yours, but I suspect there is a chance it … [Read more...]