I am happy to report that the article Lance & I wrote about Ruthe Deskin is finally out. We got a copy over the weekend. “Where She Stands: Ruthe Deskin and the Las Vegas Sun” is in the 2012 issue Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. Ruthe Deskin was an influential Las Vegas journalist. After working as a women’s page journalist in Reno, she came to the Las Vegas Sun in June 1954 as the Sunday Editor. She remained at the newspaper for decades. Much of that time she served as an assistant to the flamboyant publisher Hank Greenspun. She did a little of everything in this position, including a regular column.…

Happy to learn that the article Lance & I wrote about Ruthe Deskin is going to be published soon. Budget cuts had delayed the article’s publication. The article is titled: “Where She Stands: Ruthe Deskin and Her Place in the City of Bright Lights and Bigger Personalities After 50 years at the Las Vegas Sun.” Here is more about Ruthe:Acknowledged by Las Vegas Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun himself as the calming force behind his fiery brand of journalism, Ruthe Deskin held the power of the pen in Las Vegas for a half-century of checks and balances, keeping an eye on the grandstanding, greed, and hubris of the city’s leaders and…