December 2009

New Rail Car for the V&T

Merchants struggle to make it a Merry Christmas for them too!

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Although many other states are already pulling out of the worst recession in 80 years, Nevada continues to remain stagnated in it.

Ron Wood Center saves Christmas for hundreds of families

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It looked like it was going to be a rather bleak Christmas for many of Carson City’s needy families, but the Ron Wood Family Center put out the call, and the community resp

Sen. Reid gets health reform bill through the Senate

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A long agonizing road to health care reform took another turn toward completion today as a reform bill, brokered largely by Nevada Senator Harry Reid, delivered the 60 vote

Supersonic Santa

Captured by the spirit of the season, physicists of the Museum of Sciences in Wolfsburg, Germany, aimed their calculators at the most prominent man of Christmas to illustrate the magnitude of his job

Happy Birthday Kit Carson

Another sign that discouraged job hunters are leaving Nevada

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An ominous sign that Nevada’s recession is beginning to act more like a full fledged depression. An exodus of discouraged out of work people appear to be leaving Nevada.

Something you never want to do while cleaning your oven…

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A Carson woman was surprised to learn this week that what should have been a routine self-cleaning oven job came close to burning her house down.

Blackberry owners are not happy campers. It’s happening too often!

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Nationwide internet, e-mail and instant messaging services on the Blackberry network have vaporized for hours on end over the past two weeks.

State budget is looking really thin and it could affect local schools

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With Governor Gibbons talking state worker furloughs and pay cuts, local school districts have also been put on notice that they may have to tear up their teacher contracts