Frack Baby Frack
A couple of weeks ago a Saudi prince called the new technology that allows the development of oil fields from tar sands and oil shale the most significant threat to…
Guest Opinion BY FRED WEINBERG
I want to stray from the normal topics covered in this space, but not by much. I see where Major League Baseball wants to punish Alex Rodriguez for allegedly using…
The Quality of Justice
Yes Luis Perez and Frank Sanchez acted like a couple of school boys that night last Autumn. But were it not for a love of the game, a love of…
Playing Solitaire
In the early 19th century at the dawn of prison reform convicts in New England were given a choice of punishments for major infractions flogging or solitary confinement. Most chose…
Ignoring An Error Will Not Amend It/ Getting Trayvon
We would like to think it takes a lot to astound us. But we might be wrong because we have been astounded a lot lately. Just when we thought we…
Wendover Needs Assessment or A Tale Told By Idiots
One word came to mind when we read the Needs Assessment Report– morons. We use it without disdain or contempt but as a clinical definition to describe people who after…
One Good Man
When we first reported the murder at Ely Max it seemed like a pretty cut and dried story. One inmate killed another inmate. The killer, Michael Ofeldt already serving a…
The Twinkle In His eyes
Every once in a while we meet someone in our line of work who it is a pleasure to know. As a client then as a news source Michael Devine…
Polygamists Deserve Same As Gays
As the first and for a long time only Nevada newspaper to endorse gay marriage we are satisfied with the Supreme Court’s striking down of DOMA. However what we can’t…
Marking Time
We will be taking two weeks off as we celebrate our oldest son Chalom’s (Sam) graduation and our youngest son’s Lev-David’s (Lou) Bar-Mitzvah in Israel plus to do a lot…