Just wanted to put this note out to readers and visitors who might be wondering why it’s been so long since I’ve posted anything around here. In three words: I’ve been busy. It’s funny, because I’m always telling my clients that it’s important to blog on a regular...

cleantech, energy, wind Luke Timmerman wrote: British Columbia is bigger in land area than Washington, Oregon, and California combined, but has about one-tenth the total population. Yet pound-for-pound, our neighbor to the north appears to have its share of entrepreneurs thinking hard about energy a...

Nevada has one of the speediest eviction processes in the US.  Especially in these hard economic times, tenants should be given a reasonable opportunity to get into compliance to avoid eviction or to find substitute housing if evicted.  AB189 is a good bill that would make the eviction process mor...

Director : Neil Burger Release Date : 26 September 2008 (USA) Genre : Comedy, Drama, War Cast : Tim Robbins as Fred Cheaver, Rachel McAdams as Colee Dunn, Michael Peña as T.K. Poole, Molly Hagan as Pat Cheaver, Mark L. Young as Scott Cheaver, Howard Platt as Stan Tilson, Arden Myrin as Barbara ...

in the back of goldie's, a dive bar in Elko, Nevada, I was talking rocks with a miner with a steadily growing heap of beer bottles in front of him. He was about 50, with a sun-scorched face and a starched cowboy shirt, and refused to give his name. "With a high school degree you can make $70,000 a y...

PAHRUMP, Nev. - -Though only 22, Kristine finished her first year working at the Chicken Ranch in January. In fact, by then she was an experienced prostitute. In the north of Nevada, you can work in legal brothels at 18,......

Here's a thought experiment. Not an experiment so much as mental time travel. Or something. Anyway, imagine the year is 1981. You sport a wicked fu manchu and despise this "new wave" music and all that Kim Carnes stands for. But not all change is bad. Some hippies from out in California have introdu...

Despite the idea of legal prostitution in Las Vegas having been shunted aside as quickly as it appeared in the Legislature, the issue will not die in the public arena. Driving to the Chicken Ranch Wednesday, I listened to the......

  An Internet domain name auction was held recently in Las Vegas, where Erotica.com sold for $850,000. SexyLadies.com went for nearly $30K. Some of the more specific site names went for significantly less, but still in a few cases more than a lot of people make in a year.  FootJob.com: $53...

Bayou and I had one of those conversations this evening. The kind of conversation that takes you places- forward, backward, inside, out and around. The sort of talk that gifts you with realizations and understandings that you lacked before. In some ways it felt like a conversation I’d waited y...