By Julia Angwin, Noam Scheiber and Ariana Tobin, New York Times A few weeks ago, Verizon placed an ad on Facebook to recruit applicants for a unit focused on financial planning and analysis. The ad showed a smiling, millennial-aged woman seated at a computer and promised that new hires could look forward to a rewarding […]
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By Eli Day, Mother Jones For the first time in seven years, the number of people without a safe, regular place to sleep in America has grown. On any given night in 2017, nearly 554,000 people across the country were homeless, just under a 1 percent rise above 2016 levels. The figure comes courtesy of […]
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By Todd Dewey, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada sports books lost a record $11.4 million on baseball in November after bettors cashed on the Astros beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 and on futures wagers on Houston to win the World Series. It was the largest baseball loss ever suffered in a month by […]
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By U.S. Ski & Snowboard Ryan Cochran-Siegle (Starksboro, Vt.) led three Americans into the top 20 in Friday’s FIS Ski World Cup alpine combined event in Bormio, Italy. Alexis Pinturault of France won Friday’s race, Italy’s Peter Fill was second, followed by Norway’s Kjetil Jansrud in third. Cochran-Siegle was 14th, followed by Jared Goldberg (Holladay, […]
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By Ezra David Romero, Capital Public Radio Caltrans is taking climate change seriously. So seriously that the organization is prepping a dozen reports that evaluate how things like warming temperatures, changes in rainfall and wildfires affect roadways. “Climate change poses an immediate and growing threat to California, and Caltrans is being proactive in determining what […]
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A Santa Rosa man died skiing at Heavenly Mountain Resort on Wednesday. The name of the 49-year-old has not been released. He was on the Poma Trail when he lost control on Dec. 27. Resort officials would not say if the man was wearing a helmet, but first responders said he wasn’t. According to Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed Parking is a growing problem on the South Shore. Those in the tourism industry want more people here. Those in the regulatory business want people out of their individual cars so they limit the number of parking spots that can built. Private businesses only want people parking there who are frequenting their […]
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November was a good month for North Lake Tahoe casinos, a lackluster month for South Shore venues and so-so for the whole state of Nevada. North Shore revenue was up 18.9 percent compared to 2016 to $1,859,371, Stateline was down 2.92 percent to $15,510,510, and statewide it was down 2.3 percent to $909,007,025. Tourism should […]
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A fire that started Thursday night in the Pine Nut Mountains has burned about 50 acres. Called the Holiday Fire, it is burning south of Gardnerville between Carter and Buffalo Spring. Crews had a hard time reaching the fire because of the remote location. It was reported just after 7pm Dec. 28 on acreage owned […]
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Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce is hosting an educational workshop titled China-Ready. Citcon USA will be conducting the Jan. 25 event from 10am-12:30pm in Stateline. With Beijing the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Chinese tourists have been increasingly visiting winter sport destinations in the U.S. Many rely on Chinese social media platforms […]
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