Jane Ann Morrison

The recession is staggering into its 20th month, and unemployment in Las Vegas surpasses 12 percent; so it makes perfect sense crime would be going up.

Sometimes, it takes a cudgel, or two, or three, to get the gaming industry’s attention.

Today is Brendan Riley’s final day at The Associated Press. Whether you recognize his name or not, you certainly have read his work during his 39 years with the newsgathering cooperative, because for 37 of those years, he’s covered Carson City.

Never having written a book, I’m jealous that Charles Grodin produced one by asking others to write it for him. That alone shows he is clever.

Peggy Occhipinti is embarrassed to tell her funny story about the first day she worked with Walter Cronkite, yet it says more about his demand for perfection and his work ethic than it does about his use of a singular foul word.