By Herb Scribner, Deseret News Chances are you’re unhappy with your job. A report from Gallup found that 70 percent of Americans report feeling unhappy, uninspired and less engaged in their job. This has led American workers to be less productive, costing the United States anywhere from $450 to $550 billion a year, the report […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun After his company faced criticism for proposing to build a $1 billion power plant, NV Energy CEO Paul Caudill outlined the near-future plans on the 706-megawatt project, according to testimony he filed with the Public Utilities Commission. The company has asked regulators for $2.4 million to study building the […]
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By Don Melvin, CNN A heck of a lot more Americans were toking up in 2012-13 than 10 years before — and not for medical reasons, either — according to a new study. The percentage of American adults who had used marijuana within the last year was 9.5 percent, the study found. That compared to […]
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A gunman robbed the Round Table Pizza in Truckee on Thursday night. The robber, who brandished a black semiautomatic handgun at an employee, left with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect entered the Donner Pass Road restaurant about 10pm Oct. 22 just before closing. The manager was totaling the daily receipts and preparing the night deposit […]
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By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness It has choked Singapore with smoke, triggered Pacific typhoons and left Vietnamese coffee growers staring nervously at dwindling reservoirs. In Africa, cocoa farmers are blaming it for bad harvests, and in the Americas, it has Argentines bracing for lower milk production and Californians believing that rain is finally, mercifully on […]
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Gilbert Wetenkamp, the South Lake Tahoe man accused of killing a bear in July, was granted more time to present his case. Wetenkamp’s public defender on Oct. 23 requested the delay for further discovery. The next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 4 in El Dorado County Superior Court in South Lake Tahoe. In September Wetenkamp pleaded […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College sociology and anthropology instructor Scott Lukas will present The World Expo and the Future of Culture: Reflections from World Expo 2015 Milan on Nov. 3 at 7pm. The free talk will take place in the college’s board room. Lukas’ presentation will focus on his experiences at the 2015 World Expo in […]
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Soil and water samples will be taken next week on the South Shore in the ongoing contamination case of multiple wells. It was summer 2014 when Tetrachloroethene (PCE) was discovered in two of Lukins Brothers wells along with some private wells in the area. Too much of it and the water is deemed undrinkable. PCE can […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN — Dams and other surface storage are “dinosaurs.” That’s according to Daniel P. Beard, the former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the government agency responsible for building and maintaining 475 dams across the country. Beard spoke before and after a showing of the 90-minute documentary “Dam Nation” at the […]
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