By Melinda Myers It’s time to break out the seeds and potting mix to start your garden plants indoors. It’s a great way to keep your green thumb in shape over winter. Plus, you’ll save money, increase your variety of plants and jump start the growing season when you start seeds under LED grow lights. […]
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By Susan Wood “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Martin Luther King Jr. made the powerful statement with such poise about a time of social movement, I wished I had written it. It resonates with me to this day. Venerable journalist Dan Rather used it near the end […]
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By J.B. Silvers, The Conversation Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase’s announcement that they will create an independent company to offer health care to their employees “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” sent a shock through the health care industry, with share prices of some incumbents tumbling on Jan. 30. Of course, this is not […]
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By George B. Cunningham Revelations brought to light during the trial of sports doctor Larry Nassar are reverberating. High-level resignations are piling up at Michigan State University, the physician’s former employer. USA Gymnastics, the team’s governing body, has severed its ties with the Karolyi Ranch, the compound where many of the team’s gold medalists say […]
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December was a rather flat month for Nevada casinos. Statewide the gaming win was up 0.44 percent compared to 2016, with a total of $960,384,350. On the South Shore the year-over-year revenue was down 1.24 percent at $18,489,949. North Shore casinos were down 9.97 percent. For the year, the statewide win was up 2.8 percent […]
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By Ezra David Romero, Capital Public Radio Half of California’s vegetation is at a risk of dying because of warming temperatures, according to new UC Davis research. “We’re seeing that in California just in the last five or six years,” said James Thorne, a research scientist with the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at […]
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By Lake Tahoe News A chase that started in Truckee on Wednesday involving a stolen vehicle ended in South Lake Tahoe with a Bay Area man taken into custody. Raheem Ahmed Hanif, 35, of Rodeo was booked on grand theft auto, evading a police officer and resisting arrest. He was on parole, but for what […]
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Publisher’s note: This was sent to the South Lake Tahoe City Council and Lake Tahoe News. First let me say that I have been in and out of town intermittently this January so was not able to make the recent City Council meetings, or this would have been brought up in an open forum. However, […]
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A former South Lake Tahoe hotel maintenance worker is going to prison for the rest of his life for the assault of 22-year-old exchange student. Manuel Ovidio Ramos-Munoz was sentenced this month to 183 years to life this month. “The young woman, who had only been in the country for a little more than a […]
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By Michael Dietz, The Conversation Imagine that spring has finally arrived and you’re planning your weekend. The weather forecast looks great. You could go to the beach – but what if it’s closed because of an algal bloom? Maybe you could go for a hike – will the leaves be out yet? What might be […]
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