Jane Ann Morrison

Just how far does respect for life reach at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary? Well, if someone sees a rattlesnake, maintenance is called. Not to kill the rattler, but to capture it and relocate it to a remote area where it is less of a threat.

Talk about your perfect mood-setter. Turning off Interstate 15 onto the Great Basin Highway (aka U.S. 93), cowboy yodeler Wylie Gustafson started singing on KNPR radio about “a rootin’ tootin’ six-gun shootin’ yodelin’ cowhand.” My three-day 520-mile road trip through rural Nevada and rural Utah was officially under way, starting with that straight undulating road that was peaceful, hypnotic and, with increasing speed, became a form of flight from Las Vegas, the city I love, but also love to escape.

Savvy Nevadans know to slow down outside Alamo because of the notorious speed trap awaiting the unsavvy.

Gary Reese is conflicted between his love of Lincoln County and his job as a Las Vegas city councilman.

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Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley’s announcement Friday that she isn’t running for governor was as anticlimatic as the movie “Titantic.”

The days of disagreeing without being disagreeable are disappearing and are never coming back. I miss those days.