By Rosanna Xia and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times The strong El Niño in the Pacific Ocean is becoming even more powerful, setting the stage for an unusually wet winter in California that could bring heavy rains by January, climate experts said. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said El Niño is already […]
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· There will be an open house from 3-6pm at the Rise Designs studio (1808 Santa Fe Road, No. 4, Meyers) Unit 4 on Nov. 19 to celebrate eight years in business. · Leanne Wagoner is now the administrator for the Douglas County Court Appointed Special Advocates. Most recently she was Barton Health’s community relations […]
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By Bonnie Berkowitz, Washington Post Sometime in the past couple of decades, the idea of running a marathon became less crazy. Since Oprah Winfrey finished the Marine Corps Marathon in 1994, millions of average Joes and Janes have tackled the distance, and now “26.2” shows up routinely on bumper stickers and bucket lists. But for some […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times America’s obesity problem just keeps getting bigger. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that 37.7 percent of U.S. adults were obese as of 2014. That’s up from 34.9 percent two years earlier. From 2011 through 2014, an estimated 36.5 percent of Americans ages 20 […]
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By Jerry Nickelsburg In 2012 voters passed Proposition 30—an initiative to raise taxes and take state government finances out of crisis mode. However, the new taxes, primarily falling on the top income earners in California, did not purport to be a cure for the underlying problem. Rather, the rationale was to give the state some […]
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The 14-minute film “Ellis” will be shown at Lake Tahoe Community College this month followed by a discussion led by LTCC Assistant Professor Albert Ponce. “Ellis” was shot in the now-abandoned Ellis Island Hospital complex in New York City’s harbor, and tells the story of Ellis Island’s early years through the experience of one immigrant […]
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The sugar pine is back as the largest and tallest pine in the world. Recent discoveries of giant pines put sugar pine back in the lead after the five biggest sugar pines from Robert Van Pelt’s book “Forest Giants” all died from storms and disease, according to the Sugar Pine Foundation. Mike Taylor discovered the […]
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A Stateline woman in her mid-60s died early Friday morning after the trailer she was in caught fire. Firefighters pulled her from the burning structure, tried to resuscitate her, but she died at the scene. The coroner will determine the exact cause of death, but preliminary reports are smoke inhalation. Her name is being withheld […]
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By Kathryn Reed It takes some imagination to appreciate what The Loft will be like in a month. The hum of machinery echoes through the vacant building. A hole has been punched through the third floor of the parking garage. Contractors are busy working their magic to create what will be an original South Lake […]
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By Helen Margetts It’s the vital question of our era, the question undergirding the success of everyone from Donald Trump to Black Lives Matter: What makes some online campaigns go viral and others flop? Even after considerable research, it’s surprisingly hard to say. We have more data on failures, since most mobilizations based on social […]
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