By Hiroko Tabuchinov, New York Times Have Americans finally had enough of Black Friday madness? Sales, both in stores and online, from Thanksgiving through the weekend were estimated to have dropped 11 percent, to $50.9 billion, from $57.4 billion last year, according to preliminary survey results released Sunday by the National Retail Federation. Sales fell […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter storm watch for this week for elevations above 7,000 feet in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The watch is from Dec. 2 at 10am though Dec. 4 at 4am. The wet system is expected to drop snow at lake level. High temperatures, though, are predicted to […]
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Here are Christmas tree fire safety tips. Select a fresh tree with good color and firm, flexible needles that do not easily pull from the branches. Place the tree in plain water immediately after recutting the trunk at least one-half inch above the old cut. The container you use for your tree should hold 2 […]
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By Irin Carmon, MSNBC What does Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts think about Gamergate? How seriously does Justice Clarence Thomas take Facebook rants? And will Justice Anthony Kennedy’s First Amendment enthusiasms extend to rap lyrics? All of these intriguing questions are on the table at the nation’s highest court Monday morning with oral argument […]
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Pilot is a 2-year old Yorkie-mini Schnauzer mix who is happy and friendly, social and cuddly. He was brought to the shelter last week with several other small dogs from an overcrowded Central Valley shelter by Umbrella of Hope, a wonderful partner of the Meyers shelter. Pilot is a sweet little guy who loves to […]
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By Kathryn Reed A voice that has been missing from the Tahoe Choir for the last 21 years will soon be returning. But it also means the choir will have a new director after Sunday’s concert. This is the last season Linda Mitchell will be the choir’s director. “The reason I’m leaving now is I […]
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By Larry Weitzman On Nov. 19, the Sacramento Bee in its inimitable style wrote an editorial entitled “El Dorado County deserves better” which repeated the same old lies by writing, “Both an outside firm’s assessment of county government and a county grand jury found a deeply dysfunctional government in which bullying, intimidation and disrespect run […]
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By Carl Zimmer, New York Times The future of bees may depend on understanding their past. Bees are in trouble, any entomologist will tell you. Honeybee colonies in the United States have suffered devastating losses in recent years. But colony collapse disorder, as it’s called, affects only the species kept in beehives — the European […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — Uber Technologies’ legal battle with Nevada’s highly regulated taxi industry over Internet ride-sharing may be headed back to the political arena now that a judge has at least temporarily banned Uber’s unlicensed operations statewide. Whether his restraining order put the brakes on an unregulated transportation service, or pulled the […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Contractors working for the U.S. Forest Service are racing against Mother Nature to spread straw mulch over 1,200 acres of fire-scorched mountainside exposed by the King fire. As several storms arrive in the next week, forest officials fear a big, wet one will hit. Without the underbrush and plant material […]
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