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…
Wendover Will To Become Eye For Police, Spy On The Boulevard?
click link for meeting Wendover Will’s may soon get a pair of real eyes- surveillance cameras- to look for miscreants and scofflaws. Proposed by Councilman Johnny Gorum and endorsed by…
US Forest Service ‘Oops’ Chars Hundreds Of Woodland Acres
What began as a prescribed burn is now a full fledge wild fire that as already torched hundreds of acres and is not expected to be contained for another two…
Judge Gets Tough With Scofflaw
Salvador Jesus Avila learned Friday that it wasn’t a good idea to ignore Judge Reese Melville. Melville ordered Avila to spend 10 days in the Elko County for contempt of…
Vegas Water Grab Foes Run Out The Clock? 22 Years And Still Counting
The battle over rural Nevada water resources is really a battle over vision pity the flashy glitzy south against the stubborn north for the future of the state. And given…
Inmate Sues Women’s Prison For Shackling During Labor
A recently release inmate of the Nevada Women’s prison is suing the prison and the state Department of correction for shackling her ankles while she gave birth this October. Valerie…
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…
West Wendover JP Court June 16, 2012 Judge Reese Melville Presiding
Judge Gets Tough With Scofflaw Ana Louise Strout/Entry of Plea/48C.110A Adriana Maria Aguayo/Restitution Hearing /7-1-9 Salvador Jesus Avila/Mandatory Appearance/483.550 Salvador Jesus Avila/status hearing/484.479 Robert Michael Williams/Citation Trial/483.550 Jose Luis Lara-Miramontes/Entry…
“Run Trucker Run” Hood Becomes Hero After Escaping Cops
Now in his second week on the run Abraham “Trucker” Morales is becoming something of a outlaw hero as he evades capture by local police. It has been ten days…