The Nevada Legislature has started its retro-19th Century, every-other-year scramble to adjourn with minimal damage to the body politick. This year, the lineup is stocked with starry-eyed newbies proposing windmills of laws worthy of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. It’s all a hangover of President Ronald the Vague’s fabled and fatuous pronouncement that “government is the … [Read more...]

Life imitates art. The dystopian, polluted world of the Charlton Heston/Edward G. Robinson film “Soylent Green” (1973) is coming true. That’s the net effect of what’s being proposed both here and abroad. In Japan, a place where elders are supposed to be respected, some yayhoos have suggested that the elderly should off themselves. Said yayhoos are not outliers and this is … [Read more...]

PUBLIC RELATIONS ADVICE FROM MAYOR QUARANTINO: Don’t play dumb when public documents are requested. Veteran KOLO TV-8 journalist Ed Pearce has been reporting on abuse of public workers injured on the job who have no recourse at law when governments won’t pay. Washoe County’s Olivia Benson, former Sheriff’s Detective Kim Frankel, was severely injured on duty by a drunk … [Read more...]