News Columns
It’s been 10 months since I took over the reins here at Road Warrior headquarters and I’ve had my share of fun taking jabs at government agencies over projects that have taken a ridiculously long time to complete, or roads that are in such awful shape that eventually, recently, one nearly devoured an entire automobile.
Aside from local television commercials that end with, say, a small child squealing “Daddy’s baby girwell,” perhaps the most annoying advertisements are aired by ticket-fixing businesses that seem to inundate this community.
When political bigwigs come to Las Vegas, photographers are treated like kings because it’s all about the pictures. Reporters and columnists are serfs and lackeys, seldom given the chance to ask questions but permitted to listen to the speech … from the back.