By Matthew B. Crawford, New York Times A few years ago, in a supermarket, I swiped my bank card to pay for groceries. I watched the little screen, waiting for its prompts. During the intervals between swiping my card, confirming the amount and entering my PIN, I was shown advertisements. Clearly some genius had realized […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal A new wildfire strategy designed to protect sagebrush terrain vital to a chicken-sized bird now under consideration for endangered species protection was announced by Interior Secretary Sally Jewell Tuesday, with Nevada officials praising proposals that they’ve been pushing for years. The plan is detailed in the first of two reports […]
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By Adam Howard, MSNBC Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as Republican Sen. Rand Paul, unveiled arguably the most progressive medical marijuana legislation is history on Tuesday. Their new bill — The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act — would end federal prohibition of medical marijuana and also introduce […]
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Howard Hughes’ former Lake Tahoe estate found its way back to the spotlight as a winner in HGTV’s 2014 Doory Awards. The cabin received the most online votes in the Celebrity Homes category. The monthlong contest on HGTV’s FrontDoor.com attracted nearly 50 million views. Billed as “The Ultimate House Hunt,” the Doory Awards present extraordinary […]
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By Molly Hucklebridge Change ‘I’ to ‘we’ and you go from illness to wellness. More than 80 mental health clinicians, medical providers, law enforcement, social service groups, and the school district staff attended the mental health forum on March 5. Attendees discussed local mental health issues and walked away with specific plans to improve our […]
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By Kathryn Reed Steve Neff, chief financial officer of Barton Health, was fired today. Neff had been on the job since August. “He got fired today. I’m not at liberty to give all the reasons behind that,” Kirk Ledbetter, chairman of the board, told Lake Tahoe News. “It was something the leaders at Barton felt […]
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A federal grand jury returned a three-count wire fraud indictment March 11 against Jeffrey Lamson, 51, of El Dorado Hills. According to court documents, from at least 2009 through 2011, Lamson embezzled more than $400,000 from a company located in Placer and Sacramento counties while he was controller. Lamson used company funds to make unauthorized payments to […]
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By Lisa Aliferis, California Report Hundreds of pages of newly-found documents show that the sugar industry worked closely with the federal government in the late 1960s and early 1970s to determine a research agenda to prevent cavities in children, researchers who analyzed the documents say. In the analysis, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS Medicine, […]
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The Math Club at Lake Tahoe Community College is celebrating Pi Day on March 14 at 9am at the giant clock near the Heavenly Village gondola. Club members will demonstrate and share facts about pi. There will be a countdown to the big event ending at precisely 9:26:53am. Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating […]
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By CBS and Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The probability California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next couple of decades has increased, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. “The new likelihoods are due to the inclusion of possible multi-fault ruptures, where earthquakes are no longer confined to separate, individual faults, […]
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