Opinion

I was chatting with a couple of friends Monday about the Occupy Wall Street movement in its unfocused protest about banks and the financial sector and other things.

No specific targets, but they know something is wrong here.

One friend, a firm "independent," dismissed the crowds as "a bunch of purple-haired freaks." The other, a determined conservative who has predicted rioting in 18 months in American cities when the economy collapses as he is sure it is about to, similarly waved off the protests because the crowd was largely young and powerless with no agenda.

In 2007, I lamented that 36 percent of Carson City's schoolchildren qualified for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's free and reduced-cost meal program at school. Sadly, those numbers are worse n...

There is a great deal of speculation going on relative to the Republican candidate who will eventually face President Barack Obama in 2012. There are a lot of nasty barbs being traded back and fort...

I commend President Obama, the CIA and the Defense Department's Joint Special Operations Command for organizing and carrying out the drone attack that killed al-Qaida terrorist mastermind Anwar al-...

For several years, predictions about hyperinflation have pervaded the media. Yet consumer prices have only risen a total of 2.7 percent over the past three years, compared to 12.6 percent over the ...

RENO - This is the week Chris Ault lives for as the head coach of the Nevada Wolf Pack football team."This game means a lot to the entire state of Nevada," said Ault of the 37th meeting between the...

University of Nevada, Reno, Economics Chairman Elliott Parker has produced a compelling argument that we must rethink, reinvent our economic policy if we are to recover from the recession.Parker ob...

I can't tell you how many trips I've made between Carson City and Las Vegas over recent years. Suffice it to say "lots." And those long trips - especially between Indian Springs and Stagecoach - a...

A REFLECTION
by Tracy Davis and Cheryl Worthington

Twenty years ago, Carson City lost one of its finest. Pat Bates' death was a loss for the community, the state, and for those who were personally touched by her. And yet, because of the life she lived, Pat continues to live in the hearts of those who knew her, those who loved her.

There are many people who remember where they were and what they were doing when they found out that John Lennon had died. Others remember the death of JFK with similar sadness, the memory sharp and untouched after nearly 50 years.

Sheriff Joe enforces the laws of the land

"You're not a statesman until you can eat a lobbyist's food, drink his wine, romance his women and still say NO!" - Flavius Bronkitus, Roman senator Over the years lobbyists have relentlessly --Co...

As a child, I loved going to the A&P store with my mother. We were newly arrived immigrants and still overwhelmed by the bounty of food available. Shopping for groceries seemed like a trip to Parad...

It was the worst day of my life, with the exception of the death from a heart attack of my father at the age of 73.I didn't view my dad in his coffin, as I wanted to remember him as he had been in ...

I see we survived another possible government shutdown by the Senate, by only a hair's breadth, and it took less game-playing this time to reach that goal. Let's see what the Republican House does....

Northern Nevada was in the news, but not in a good way, during my 10-day family visit to Seattle last month. It seemed as if I was reading a bad news story about our area just about every day in th...

I was alarmed to hear Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., declare that emergency aid from the destructive Hurricane Irene should be offset by equal amounts of spending cuts. Being mean-spirited, it's also hyp...

By Sam Bauman
First time I went to Burning Man on the Black Rock playa, I slept in my SUV. Not bad but second and third it was in my tent, a very gritty and uncomfortable week. Fourth I weaseled my way into a friend's a fold-out trailer, which was better. But from then on I teamed up with a retired airline pilot, who had a nice 27-foot Winnebago. Four of us the first three times, just two the last.

There is an ongoing internal brouhaha over the Nevada Republican Party's proposal to allow same-day voter registration so that non-Republicans can show up at the GOP presidential caucus in February...

By Brian Underwood
The signature shades of orange, red, and purple that are often associated with autumn are not the only fall colors blanketing high school campuses at this time of year.

Visit the office of a high school guidance counselor in September and October and one also will take in the various shades of ash, green, and yellow found on the faces of millions of high school seniors attempting to figure out where they should go to college.

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul." - George Bernard ShawI hear talk about revising the federal income tax code. No question, it is a sorry mess. ...

"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves in their separate, and indiv...

All I can say is "wow."President Barack Obama has an absolute lock on the stock market. The Dow plummeted last week, with nearly a trillion dollars lost in two days. Staggering for our economy and ...

I worry about America. I pray for America. Most of its citizens seem oblivious to the danger of borrowing almost half of every dollar currently spent. If America were a person, it would promptly be...

Some of my fellow Democrats accuse me of sounding like a Tea Party activist when I criticize the federal government for fraud, waste and abuse, and for encroaching on the states' rights guaranteed ...

Incorporation helps many owners pool their investments into shares of a single firm. As legal fictions, corporations are able to sign contracts and outlive any individual owner, and limited liab...

I had the start of a bad day on Sept. 15. My son and I went to the Reno Air Races (as a private pilot, I love this event). We arrived a little after 8 a.m. and we were leaving about 1 p.m., after t...

Elizabeth Crum, publisher and editor of Nevada News Bureau writes: "Bored with my usual “In Case You Missed It” headline, so I’m mixing it up today, Dear Readers. Livin’ on the edge, that’s me. Here’s some stuff you may have missed this week in your mad rush to live your life:" Go here for this week's top links.

In honor of retired state archivist Guy Rocha's 60th birthday today, I want to aid him in one of his favorite pursuits, busting myths about Nevada.

In this case, locals commonly make the mistake of saying Brunswick Canyon when they are actually talking about Carson River Canyon. I make this mistake, and I see many instances of this also coming out in arrest reports and press releases from the Carson City Sheriff's Office.

Polling results recently released by Public Opinion Strategies on behalf of the Retail Association of Nevada have tax-and-spend liberals around the state doing the Snoopy dance. According to POS, "...