Jane Ann Morrison

Staring out my window at home, trying to write, I saw something I’d never seen before. A pretty woman, her hair pulled away from her face, was hurling my trash bag into a Republic Services trash truck.

If a crusty 70-year-old Boulder City man had marched outside the federal courthouse with a sign calling bankruptcy court “a brothel” and U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Linda Riegle “a madam” who “pays the working girls and provides the condoms,” his First Amendment rights would have been protected.

Once again, many Nevada legislators demonstrate that if they have to choose between what the voters want and what their political consultants want, about half side with the ones who brought them to the party: the consultants.

Serious disciplinary action is being contemplated by the Gaming Control Board because of problems at Las Vegas nightclubs, problems some gaming licensees are ignoring, board member Randall Sayre said Friday.

The Vegas Mob Tour has been on my “to do” list for nearly three years, and this past week I finally did the deed, using my uncle’s visit as an excuse.

When Dan Bogden was Nevada’s U.S. attorney during the Bush administration, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued at least three scathing opinions critical of federal prosecutors in his office.

Crystal Klinkenberg was supposed to be a bridesmaid.