The Tahoe Bike Challenge kick-off — Ready, Set, Pedal — is June 1 from 4-6pm. The party is at Pearl Izumi at the Y. There will be to rides. The 5-mile route partially goes through the Tahoe Keys and over to the bike trail on Eloise Avenue. The 10-miler is along Lake Tahoe Boulevard, up Ski Run […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun NV Energy collected millions to pay federal income taxes since 2000 but hasn’t sent the money to the Internal Revenue Service, according to documents filed by the company in the Nevada Public Utilities Commission. The utility collected at least $126 million worth of income tax payments from companies in […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada parents will almost certainly have an unprecedented choice starting next school year, following the Legislature’s final approval of Senate Bill 302 on Friday. The choice: Parents can either keep their children in public school or pull them out and the state will hand them about $5,000 per child to […]
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Truckee and Placerville are the beneficiaries of some of the nearly $223 million the California Transportation Commission has allocated to 108 transportation projects. Thirty-seven biking and pedestrian projects throughout the state will receive nearly $10.3 million in allocations from the Active Transportation Program. Projects include $1.5 million for Truckee to add about 2,203 feet of […]
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By Ben Steverman, Bloomberg Business For a decade, a new kind of mutual fund has been taking over Americans’ retirement portfolios. The target-date fund is designed for people with no knowledge of investing. You pick the fund closest to the year you expect to retire—the Vanguard Target Retirement 2030, for example — and the fund […]
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May of 2015 and May of 1983 compare as total opposites. In 2015, we’re experiencing a record drought, Washoe Lake has dried up, and thousands of wells in California have gone dry. By contrast, in 1983 we had four rain-prompted slides including massive mud hitting Washoe Lake and Squaw Valley. There was much flooding in […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a random series of stories about what it’s like to go through the South Tahoe Public Utility District turf buyback program. By Kathryn Reed I’m exhausted and overwhelmed, and I haven’t turned over one blade of grass. It’s going to be a long summer, or two. My front yard […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was sent to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors in advance of the June 1 budget hearing. The author is the former director of the county Human Services Department, worked for the county for 30 years and helped build all of the senior programs. Dear members of the board: Regarding Monday’s […]
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By KJ Dell’Antonia, New York Times Parents feel as if their young children are constantly in motion. But research suggests that children in preschool have few opportunities for active play and are often sedentary. To learn more about how preschoolers spend their day, University of Washington researchers monitored the activities of 98 children attending 10 […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek The latest disaster movie, “San Andreas”, has drawn considerable attention, especially when coupled with the real-life earthquake disaster that struck Nepal April 25 and the magnitude 4.8 gentle-reminder earthquake 100 miles north of Las Vegas that rattled homes and highways throughout the valley on May 22. “As a couple of our graduate […]
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