Within living memory, Southern Nevada high schools had rifle ranges and competitive shooting teams. Kids brought their .22s to school; no one thought much about it. Up until 1989, Nevada had no restrictions on teachers carrying weapons in the schools, according to state Sen. Bob Beers. To this day, teachers can do so with the […]
From my last name, a lot of folks wouldn’t think half my ancestors were English — Clarks and Bishops and Higginbothams, some active in the emancipation movement as much as three centuries ago. Digging through the family archives, I find a yellowed letter to one Zebulon Clark, penned in 1767 — more than half a […]
Last week, the Nevada Senate’s Transportation and Homeland Security Committee voted 5-2 to approve Senate Bill 61, which would allow “limited” use of robot traffic cameras to write tickets to Nevada red-light runners “on a pilot basis.” That vote forwards the measure to the Senate floor. The vote wasn’t even as close as the 4-3 […]