By Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times When Bernie Sanders released his long-awaited health care plan last month, it was light on the details. But it did include one major, crowd-pleasing promise: Under his Medicare-for-all proposal, no American would ever have to pay a deductible or co-payment to receive health care again. Deductibles and other forms […]
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By USSA HAFJELL, Norway — River Radamus (Edwards, Colo.) took the biggest victory of his young career, winning the men’s super G at the Youth Olympic Winter Games Saturday. “The course was pretty technical today,” said Radamus. “There were a couple of really key spots that I think I nailed. I didn’t really go in […]
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By CNN U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the leading conservative voice on the high court, has died at the age of 79, a government source and a family friend told CNN on Saturday. His death set off an immediate debate about whether President Obama should fill the seat in an election year. Obama said Saturday […]
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· Urologist Bradley Anderson with Barton Health in March will begin seeing patients in Incline Village in addition to his South Lake Tahoe office. · Out of the 20 resorts nominated by a panel of pro skiers and snowboarders, USA Today and 10Best announced that their readers selected Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows as the winner of the […]
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By Brian Kahn, Climate Central For most states in the U.S., winters without snow would be like a Super Bowl performance without Beyonce, Donald Trump without a combover or an overseas flight without a passport. And yet that’s exactly what’s been happening. As the world warms, it’s changing the essence of winter. It’s not that less […]
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By Kim Wyatt “Between the World and Me” By Ta-Nehisi Coates Spiegel & Grau, 176 pages, $24 hardcover One-line review: A challenging, lyrical and heartbreaking must-read for Americans. “Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is titled after Richard Wright’s 1935 poem of the same name about a lynching. This powerful book, written as […]
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To the community, Tahoe Best Friends owner Paige Rice has a big heart not only for all of the family pets that she and her team at Tahoe Best Friends train and care for, but also for those less fortunate members of our community who are in need of a helping hand. On Feb. 1, […]
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Starting about noon Friday, Truckee Donner PUD started getting call from business customers who had been contacted by phone by someone claiming to be with the district, stating that they had a past due account, and threatening to disconnect them if they did not pay them immediately over the phone by pre-paid debit card, credit […]
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By Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times More Californians are falling sick with the flu this month, but the season looks to be far less dangerous than those of past years. As of the first week of February, 11 Californians under the age of 65 had died from the flu since the season began in October. At this time last […]
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Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy students are seeking support from the community for the annual St. Baldrick’s Foundation fundraiser, taking place March 5 at Heavenly Mountain Resort. St. Baldrick’s is a volunteer-powered charity that is committed to funding research to find cures for childhood cancers. To show solidarity with young cancer patients, St. Baldrick’s has an […]
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