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Piracy precautions serious business on cruise ships

It was a little shocking, when boarding the Amsterdam in Dubai, to see the barbed wire on the third deck, the first open deck pirates could possibly board. Then there were the water hoses, pointed down toward the water line.

Flight plans altered after birds strike jetliner

I almost needed that obituary I wrote for myself. Writing about it before I left on vacation was clearly tempting fate.

Why you should write your own obituary

A few friends looked horrified when I said I had written my pre-obit. Some of them were the same folks who thought I was foolish to plan a vacation in the Middle East.

State audits reveal eye-opening issues at Nevada agencies

State auditors have found the Department of Education needed to do far more and in revoking licenses of employees with criminal histories. And they found the Department of Public Safety folks did not have a plan to fix dozens of problems identified.

Updates on prior columns: E-cigarettes and access for the handicapped to the state museum

Readers routinely complain that the news media give the beginning but not the end of a story. Well, here are a few endings of note involving e-cigarettes and equal access to the Nevada State Museum at the Springs Preserve. As hard as I tried, I couldn’t find a link to tie them together, so they’ll have to hang separately.