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Today vs. Tomorrow Not only am I a crastinator, I am a Pro-crastinator. I guess the first step to turning over a new leaf and becoming a reformed procrastinator is admitting that there is, hiding in the shadows of my being, a big ole procrastinator. Happily laid back and vegetating on my virtual couch. It […]
Is this You? Today vs. Tomorrow
House panel advances DOE budget bill with no funding for Yucca
By Humberto Sanchez The Nevada Independent Nevada’s congressional delegation scored a victory Tuesday after helping orchestrate the narrow defeat of a proposal to provide about $74 million to continue the process to license a national nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The proposal, which failed 27 to 25, was offered by Idaho Republican Rep. Mike […]
Pair accused of illegally killing deer
Associated Press ELKO — Authorities have filed a total of 27 charges against two Idaho brothers accused of illegally killing a pair of mule deer bucks in northeast Nevada. The Nevada Department of Wildlife announced Monday that Elko County prosecutors recently filed the charges against Wade and Blake Asher. State game wardens arrested Wade Asher […]
History: Nevada’s Pony Express Stations – Fort Churchill
The previous Pony Express station I told about in this series was Buckland’s Station. It served as a Pony Express station for just a short time between April 3, 1860 until the Pyramid Lake Indian War started about May 12, 1860. For the next two months, service on the Pony Express was disrupted by periodic […]
Memorial Day: A time to pause and remember
By Steve Ranson Special to the Sentinel Operation Battle Born Northern Nevada marchers are scheduled to rendezvous with veterans from UNLV on Wednesday at Tonopah to exchange two ruck sacks of almost 7,000 dog tags representing military men and who women who died since Sept. 11,2001, as a result of the Global War on Terrorism. The […]
Interior boss: No monument changes planned, but up to Trump
Associated Press U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said Wednesday he has no plans for additional changes to national monuments that were recommended by his predecessor, but that it’s ultimately up to President Donald Trump. The comments at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee meeting are the latest indication that recommendations to shrink two monuments in Oregon and […]
Trump immigration plan merits consideration
Minutes after President Trump announced in the Rose Garden this past week a plan to revise the priorities under which immigrants are accepted into the United States, Democrats and media outlets were calling his proposal dead on arrival, having no chance of being approved by Congress. More’s the pity, Trump’s plan, though short on detail, […]
Equality Act would be damaging for women
Good intentions don’t always make good law. Take this past week’s 236-173 vote, largely along party lines, in the House of Representatives to pass the so-called Equality Act, which amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include “sexual orientation and gender identity.” The devil is in the details. The bill was sponsored in the […]
Nevada lawmakers back change in way president gets elected
By Michelle L. Price Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Nevada could soon become the latest to pledge to give its Electoral College votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote, even if another candidate gets the most votes in the state. The measure, which has passed the Legislature and will soon be on […]
Nevada lawmakers close to repealing tough abortion rules
By Ryan Tarinelli Associated Press CARSON CITY — Nevada lawmakers are bucking a national trend of restrictive abortion laws by voting to repeal requirements that physicians document a pregnant woman’s marital status and tell her about the “emotional implications” of an abortion. Democrats in the Assembly passed the bill in a largely party-line vote on […]