This May marked the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad. Now, in fact, it wasn’t transcontinental. It started in Omaha and went to Sacramento. But its construction meant you could take the train across the United States. That was an important first, and important to Nevada.

If governor Steve Sisolak, D-Nevada, signs assembly bill 186, Nevada would become the 15th state, along with DC, to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

The legislative session is two weeks away from ending. This year, Nevada made history with the first-ever female majority running the state.

More than two decades ago, the Stardust casino was robbed and the thief disappeared with over a half million dollars.

April 7 was a Sunday. On any other Sunday, Sam Lionel would have been looking forward to going to his office the next day to practice law and possibly argue a case in court. But it wasn’t like any other Sunday because it was Sam Lionel’s one-hundredth birthday. And that, like his life and career, is worth celebrating.

We are approaching the centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Nevada has an additional reason to celebrate something that happened fifty years before that, when the state took a stand for suffrage. It’s a chance for us to talk about a significant speech in Nevada’s history, and errors in the record of Nevada’s history.

Nicholas Trutanich has been our U.S. Attorney since January 16.

As you know, for many years, this feature was written by Frank Wright, who was a curator for the Nevada State Museum. If there was an equivalent of Frank in northern Nevada, as the go-to guy for history, it was Phil Earl. We’re sad to report that Phil died early this year just before his eighty-second birthday, and we would like to tell you more about him.