We’ve known for years that the wild horse and burro population growth on public land in the West is not sustainable, but little is being done about it. A recent article in the online E&E News, which touts itself as the essential news source for energy and environment professionals, by Scott Streater paints an eye-opening on-the-ground picture of just how dire the … [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...]
EPA Repeals Obama-Era Land Use Restrictions
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency has finalized the repeal of yet another Obama-era regulatory overreach, specifically rules that defined every stream, ditch, seasonal puddle and muddy hoof print as being covered by the restrictions of the Clean Water Act of 1972 that was intended to prohibit pollutants being dumped into navigable waters — known as the … [Read more...]
Dem Debate
Last Thursday and Friday the main topic of discussion was the Democrat Presidential Candidate Debate. The general consensus at the kaffe klatch was that Donald Trump was the winner. The main reason for that conclusion was the lack of any person of Presidential timbre on the stage. Joe Biden had his best moment so far as he took on the radical Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth … [Read more...]
It Was the Best I Could Do
Here comes The Speech. I can see it on his face. I can feel the words gathering in the air between us. One part plea, one part protest, one part lamentation. I’ve got The Speech memorized. I hear it in my office with some regularity. And not just in my office: I also hear it out and about from friends and colleagues. It’s as if, at birth, we each receive The Speech on a … [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...]
Gov. Sisolak Opposes Tighter Food Stamp Rules
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak has joined 16 other Democratic governors to pen a letter to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue demanding that a proposed change in the rules for food stamp eligibility be dropped. This summer the Agriculture Department unveiled plans to tighten eligibility requirements for food stamps under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Instead of … [Read more...]
Camel Races
Every so often I am asked about the first Virginia City Camel Race and when it actually happened. It was in the summer of 1960 when the Misfits movie was being shot in Reno and outlying areas. Recently I saw a photo of the 2019 Camel Races that sported a banner above the street in VC that noted the Camel Races were staged from 1959 to 2019. To set the record straight, in … [Read more...]