El Dorado County Senior Legal Services is hosting a series of legal seminars in South Lake Tahoe for seniors during September and October. The seminar series, entitled Planning for the Future, will provide information about financial and health planning. Individuals may attend the series or just one class. Reservations are not required. Each seminar session […]
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Kiki and Scoobie are 10-year-old male cats that are anxious to find their forever home — and they want to be adopted together. They are curious, friendly and loving. These sweet fellows are on the chubby side, and need to find a new friend to adopt them that is savvy about cat diets and exercise […]
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By Terra Breeden Tahoe and tourists are almost synonymous. This isn’t anything new. It was even in the case in the 1920s, though at that time it was mostly the upper echelon of society who summered here. To capture what life was like here in the 1920s, a group of history buffs started the Great […]
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By Robert J. Shiller, New York Times Home prices have been climbing. They have risen 27 percent nationally since 2012, even more in places like San Francisco. But why worry? If you accept the efficient markets theory — and believe that real estate is an efficient market — then these prices are based on “new […]
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By Katie Rogers, New York Times Officials at Yellowstone National Park are warning visitors not to fraternize with wildlife after a woman was injured while trying to take a selfie near a bison — but that hasn’t stopped some visitors from posting their close encounters on social media. A notice released by the National Park […]
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By Leigh Weingus, Huffington Post Your major coffee habit may help reduce your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to a study. Researchers found that habitual coffee drinkers — meaning those who had more than 1.5 cups per day — were half as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes over a 10-year period as casual […]
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By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones In normal years, California residents get about 30 percent of their drinking water from underground aquifers. And in droughts like the current one — with sources like snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada mountains virtually non-existent — groundwatersupplies two-thirds of our most populous state’s water needs. So it’s sobering news that […]
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By Bradley Stulberg, Outside When it comes to performance enhancement in endurance sports, we’ve all but exhausted traditional methods of physical training. That’s why an increasing number of experts believe that unlocking any remaining gains will come from innovation focused not on the body, but on the brain. One of the foremost authorities in endurance […]
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By Associated Press The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles and its vendor are at odds over whether a feature that allowed customers to get in a DMV line from home via smartphone attributed to longer wait times. The agency last week cut off customers’ ability to check-in remotely at the busiest DMV offices in Las […]
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By Ananya Bhattacharya and Heather Long, CNNMoney Jordan Gallacher hasn’t had a job in three years. Many employers reject him with a form letter or email, but one said outright: “We don’t hire blind people.” Gallacher, 28, is a computer expert. He has a bachelor’s degree in management and entrepreneurship from Louisiana Tech University. Yet […]
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