If, if, if, If, if, if, If, if, if, If, if, if, If, if, if…………
With enough ‘ifs’ one can put Paris in a bottle- so goes an old French saying. We think it might apply to West Wendover’s of making a fortune by becoming…
In Praise of The Manly Art
Anyone who speaks with us for more than five minutes, will find out we have children. Give us 10 minutes, they will know their names and ages. We are very…
Filleting The Public Square
There is a very simple test to know whether one lives in a free society: an individual knows he is free if he can go to his city’s public square…
A Fire Bell In The Night
Every once in while we come across someone or rather he comes across us and wants to put a letter in our newspaper. We pretty much have an open door…
Growing Old In The News Business
As we grow older in the newspaper business we notice two disturbing phenomena: 1) we are publishing more and more stories about men our age dieing and 2) we are…
Letter: Thanks Judge Melville
My recent experience with your city court prompts me to write and express my admiration for the way that Judge Reese Melville conducted his court and dealt with the citizens…
The Happy Revolution
Of all the revolutionary ideas in the Declaration of Independence by far the most extraordinary was man’s inalienable right to pursue happiness. In the course of human history there had…
Affirmative (Re) Action
Minority it is a pretty high charged word these days. In has been so for as long as we can remember and probably longer still. We remember a joke from…
Father’s Day Lessons Relearned & Thank You
Our wife gave us a wonderful Father’s Day present last week- the rings of Saturn. We traveled to Great Basin National Park to do some star gazing and it was…
The Creation Of An Outlaw “Hero”
The fact that Trucker Morales has achieved heroic status by what appears to be a large segment of our community is the most devastating indictment against the West Wendover Police…