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Words to live by:
Mark Twain briefly mentioned New Years Day in the Jan 1, 1863 Territorial Enterprise. t.co/uzx6gQp1Xf
"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
"Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
January 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Words to live by:
2026 is only 13 hours old, and I'm already disappointed in it.
January 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
2026 is only 13 hours old, and I'm already disappointed in it.
Looks like a gloomy New Year’s Eve.
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Looks like a gloomy New Year’s Eve.
Nevada isn't only casinos. Lithium mining poses some real dangers. Good for @reviewjournal.com posting this 6-part series:
All roads lead to Thacker Pass to solidify Nevada as the country’s leader in supplying domestic lithium batteries. In Alan Halaly's six-part series, hear from frontline Nevada communities that are bearing the brunt of the country’s clean energy future.→ http://reviewjournal.com/thackerpass
December 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nevada isn't only casinos. Lithium mining poses some real dangers. Good for @reviewjournal.com posting this 6-part series:
Heather Cox Richardson ends 2025 on an especially serious note but hopeful:
"...launched the experiment of government based on the rule of law created by the people themselves, the American people are reclaiming that history."
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December 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"...launched the experiment of government based on the rule of law created by the people themselves, the American people are reclaiming that history."
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December 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
December 30, 2025
The hallmark of the first year of President Donald J.
open.substack.com
December 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Heather Cox Richardson ends 2025 on an especially serious note but hopeful:
"...launched the experiment of government based on the rule of law created by the people themselves, the American people are reclaiming that history."
—
December 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
"...launched the experiment of government based on the rule of law created by the people themselves, the American people are reclaiming that history."
—
December 30, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
Maybe a little like my paternal grandfather.
December 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Maybe a little like my paternal grandfather.
I don’t think I look like my maternal grandparents.
December 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I don’t think I look like my maternal grandparents.
So, is Musk destroying the taxi business?
www.reviewjournal.com/local/traffi...
www.reviewjournal.com/local/traffi...
Boring Co. Vegas Loop begins Reid airport rides
Passengers are given rides in Tesla model vehicles in a point-to-point system in the Vegas Loop.
www.reviewjournal.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:25 AM
So, is Musk destroying the taxi business?
www.reviewjournal.com/local/traffi...
www.reviewjournal.com/local/traffi...
I hope they don't wake me up.
Las Vegas is hosting its massive "America's Party 2026" on New Year's Eve, featuring fireworks launched from 10 rooftops on the Strip (including MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, Venetian, Resorts World, Fontainebleau, ARIA, Planet Hollywood, TI, The STRAT, and the new Palms)
Las Vegas is hosting its massive "America's Party 2026" on New Year's Eve, featuring fireworks launched from 10 rooftops on the Strip (including MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, Venetian, Resorts World, Fontainebleau, ARIA, Planet Hollywood, TI, The STRAT, and the new Palms)
December 31, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I hope they don't wake me up.
Las Vegas is hosting its massive "America's Party 2026" on New Year's Eve, featuring fireworks launched from 10 rooftops on the Strip (including MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, Venetian, Resorts World, Fontainebleau, ARIA, Planet Hollywood, TI, The STRAT, and the new Palms)
Las Vegas is hosting its massive "America's Party 2026" on New Year's Eve, featuring fireworks launched from 10 rooftops on the Strip (including MGM Grand, Caesars Palace, Venetian, Resorts World, Fontainebleau, ARIA, Planet Hollywood, TI, The STRAT, and the new Palms)
All this railroad talk made me relive 1963 with the great Johnny Cash:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd63...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd63...
Casey Jones
YouTube video by Johnny Cash - Topic
www.youtube.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
All this railroad talk made me relive 1963 with the great Johnny Cash:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd63...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd63...
I'm more the old European type. These contemporary glass-walled homes leave me cold. (Pontificating from my 650 sq ft apartment.)
www.reviewjournal.com/business/hou...
www.reviewjournal.com/business/hou...
December 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I'm more the old European type. These contemporary glass-walled homes leave me cold. (Pontificating from my 650 sq ft apartment.)
www.reviewjournal.com/business/hou...
www.reviewjournal.com/business/hou...
There’s a Nevada in Detroit, too. A snowy one today.
December 30, 2025 at 2:11 AM
There’s a Nevada in Detroit, too. A snowy one today.
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It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.
Trump: "It's funny, I settled 8 wars. Some were going on for 35 years. And we got them settled in a couple of days. Some of them -- one was going on for 37 years. I settled it in one day. But this is a very complex one."
December 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
It’s not our duty to just smile and nod when a man with this much power demonstrates that he’s a pathological liar and an imbecile. Quite the contrary. Real patriots say out loud this is just plain nuts and he’s unfit to hold office.
The headline writer seems a little too gleeful about this execution:
Granted a reprieve by Governor Lewis Bradley on Dec 18, 1874 to determine his mental soundness, murderer John Murphy was hanged Dec 29, 1874 at the foot of Lone Mountain in Carson City, NV. t.co/I1cSPl9frV
The Dec 30, 1874 Carson Appeal reported: t.co/mwnAlyZkMQ
The Dec 30, 1874 Carson Appeal reported: t.co/mwnAlyZkMQ
December 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
The headline writer seems a little too gleeful about this execution:
Candidate signs are already cluttering the county and it’s not 2026 yet.
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Candidate signs are already cluttering the county and it’s not 2026 yet.
The Central Pacific Railroad mounted large snow plows on some locomotives to clear snow while working through the Sierra Nevada mountains toward Nevada. On Dec 28, 1866, Cisco, CA received its largest snowfall in a decade ans it was too much for the plows. t.co/6Elb7FYdX6
December 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What’s up with Detroit weather?
December 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
What’s up with Detroit weather?
As a newspaper geek, I'm hoping both the News and Free Press survive. It's interesting that the only two surviving JOAs are in Detroit and Las Vegas.
I'm happy that Starkman mentioned Phoebe Wall Howard in this piece.
starkmanapproved.com/detroits-jou...
I'm happy that Starkman mentioned Phoebe Wall Howard in this piece.
starkmanapproved.com/detroits-jou...
Detroit's Journalism Miracle on Cass Ave.
Some 36 years ago, one of the most consequential and damaging decisions in American journalism took place in downtown Detroit: the merging of the business operations of the Detroit Free
starkmanapproved.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
As a newspaper geek, I'm hoping both the News and Free Press survive. It's interesting that the only two surviving JOAs are in Detroit and Las Vegas.
I'm happy that Starkman mentioned Phoebe Wall Howard in this piece.
starkmanapproved.com/detroits-jou...
I'm happy that Starkman mentioned Phoebe Wall Howard in this piece.
starkmanapproved.com/detroits-jou...
Fairly new Google photo of my old house, Still looks good. I can picture myself pushing my Toro mower and then snowblower. They must have replaced roof. Expensive?
December 27, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Fairly new Google photo of my old house, Still looks good. I can picture myself pushing my Toro mower and then snowblower. They must have replaced roof. Expensive?
I don’t miss this, especially if it brings down power lines. No lights, no heat.
December 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I don’t miss this, especially if it brings down power lines. No lights, no heat.
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Arrived in Las Vegas from Texas in 1946, rancher, convicted murderer, and founder of Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las #Vegas, NV, Lester Ben "Benny" Binion, 85, died on Dec 25, 1989 in Las Vegas, NV. He is interred at Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park. t.co/oWiyhBKRMk
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Arrived in Las Vegas from Texas in 1946, rancher, convicted murderer, and founder of Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las #Vegas, NV, Lester Ben "Benny" Binion, 85, died on Dec 25, 1989 in Las Vegas, NV. He is interred at Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park. t.co/oWiyhBKRMk
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Producer, entrepreneur, aviator, Nevada casino owner (including Desert Inn, Sands, Frontier, Silver Slipper, Landmark), Las Vegas land owner, and Las Vegas resident (late 1960s) Howard Hughes was born on Dec 24, 1905 in Houston, TX. t.co/6eaBPYAKNE
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Producer, entrepreneur, aviator, Nevada casino owner (including Desert Inn, Sands, Frontier, Silver Slipper, Landmark), Las Vegas land owner, and Las Vegas resident (late 1960s) Howard Hughes was born on Dec 24, 1905 in Houston, TX. t.co/6eaBPYAKNE
