If you can read this newspaper, you are lucky. The Reno Gazette-Journal may have just nuked the business in northwestern Nevada. Distribution is make-or-break. The RGJ just killed its Saturday edition. So what? For starters, that means I can’t get the New York Times delivered on Saturday anymore. Apparently a single contractor does the work for everybody. The week it … [Read more...]
Fighting for human rights on César Chávez Day
Fifty years ago right now, César Chávez and Maria Zamora labored among thousands on the legendary long march to Sacramento. That 340-mile trek eventually resulted in the landmark California Farmer-Labor Act that gave field workers rights long granted to other workplaces. Sen. Omer Rains, D-Santa Barbara/Ventura, now a longtime Nevadan, was a principal legislative leader of … [Read more...]