By Kathryn Reed It looks like South Lake Tahoe may soon be the landowner where the senior center, museum, art building and visitors center sit in the middle of town. “It’s a good idea to transfer it to the city and get out of the middle,” El Dorado County Supervisor Sue Novasel told Lake Tahoe […]
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By Francis Secada, Al Jazeera America The recent campaigns to push for an increase in minimum wage rates across the United States have attracted much media coverage. The state of New York is making moves to approve a $15 per hour price floor, joining Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles. There is growing support for ensuring […]
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By Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times If you’re a map geek – and many travelers are – you may wish to avert your eyes. Two books – one new, one renewed – are here to tempt you as the holidays approach. As these volumes show, maps can be deeply addictive because each one is a […]
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By Yesenia Amaro, Las Vegas Review-Journal Marsha Rodriguez waited six months to get into a Nevada Medicaid waiver program providing home services so the disabled woman wouldn’t have to move into a nursing home. Seven years later, the 72-year-old is still receiving those services along with 4,558 other people from three different vulnerable populations — the […]
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By Jennifer Modenessi, Bay Area News Group ORINDA — When Miramonte High School social studies teacher Elizabeth Aracic teaches Civil War history, she makes a point of giving her students a wide-angle look at the country’s deadliest war. Answering legislation that seeks to make history more inclusive, Aracic explains to high school juniors that it […]
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By John Myers, Los Angeles Times Call it a dream for California political consultants, a nightmare for voters or an electoral extravaganza: The November 2016 ballot could feature a bigger crop of statewide propositions than at any time in the past decade. “The voters pamphlet is going to look like the Encyclopaedia Brittanica,” said Steve […]
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Ownership of two short roads near Northstar is changing. The Placer County Board of Supervisors last week approved the abandonment of Mill Site Road and Cross Cut Court so they will become privately owned. Mill Site Road runs through the Retreat at Northstar, an 18-lot development. Adjacent to the Retreat is Martis Camp, a 668-lot […]
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By ABC-10 A fight led to a man’s death and another man’s arrest in El Dorado County early Friday morning. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies were sent to investigate a report of an assault near a residence in the 2800 block of Elmer Street in Camino about 1:05am. When they arrived, […]
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By Rory Carroll, Guardian The doors clang shut, casting the laboratory into gloom, and the scientists don goggles, yellow helmets and flame-resistant jackets. Two crouch behind computers, readying measurements. Another picks up a blowtorch. The rest stand back. Wood shavings and dry chaparral, which resembles hay, line the bed of a 30ft wind tunnel. Green […]
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· Bill Cottrill is now general manager of Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel in South Lake Tahoe. · Tahoe Donner Cross Country Ski Area’s inaugural Winter Festival is Jan. 24. Discounted trail passes will be $10 each and $15 rentals will be available, including free lessons, tours and ski equipment demonstrations. Festival-goers may also enjoy live […]
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