By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Splitting California into three new states would scramble nearly every segment of government that touches residents’ lives, from taxes to Medi-Cal to driver’s licenses. New agencies would have to be created to operate prisons, highways and universities. CalPERS, CalSTRS, Cal Fire and the California Highway Patrol, to name a […]
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· Placer County Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery is having a coffee chat session on June 28, 9am at Customs House – Placer County Administrative Office, Tahoe City. · There will be a bluegrass concert at Sugar Pine Point State Park on July 27 from 5-9pm. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 that day. Doors open at […]
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Learn how to handle wildlife encounters, whether it be while camping, hiking or in your own backyard during a talk by a Nevada Department of Wildlife’s urban wildlife coordinator. This will be a lesson on what to do and how to react to wild animals; from raccoons and coyotes to bears and mountain lions. This […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – Attorney General Jeff Sessions stayed true to the party line Monday as he defended the president’s policy on immigration saying children are the target of MS-13, an international criminal gang that originated in Los Angeles in the 1980s. Sessions gave the keynote address June 25, opening the national gathering […]
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By Randy Malamud, The Conversation When I overcame a flying phobia, I resolved to make up for lost time by visiting as much of the world as I could. So in the course of a decade, I logged over 300,000 miles, flying everywhere from Buenos Aires to Dubai. I knew intuitively that my travels would […]
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By Joseph W. Mead and Sara Rankin, The Conversation Increasingly, local laws punish Americans who are homeless. By severely restricting or even barring the ability to engage in necessary, life-sustaining activities in public, like sitting, standing, sleeping or asking for help, even when there’s no reasonable alternative, these laws are essentially persecuting homeless men, women […]
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By Melody Gutierrez, San Francisco Chronicle California voters will decide whether to repeal newly enacted gas taxes and vehicle registration fees that fund road repairs under a ballot initiative that will appear on the November ballot. Proponents of the repeal turned in more than the 585,407 valid signatures needed to qualify for the November ballot. […]
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A driver for Boulder Exterminator was arrested on charges of driving under the influence after crashing a company truck on North Upper Truckee Road in Meyers. Joseph Toller, 50, of Gardnerville sustained moderate injuries in the June 25, 1:15pm accident. He as transported to Barton Memorial Hospital. “He was going too fast and left the […]
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By Art Chapman, Moonshine Ink In the litigation against the Town of Truckee over the approval of the Soaring Ranch project, anchored by a Raley’s grocery store, a new development has recently come to light, therefore I want to provide your readers with an update. As you may know well, we have been working diligently […]
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El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Nursing is reminding parents to plan now for the coming school year by ensuring their children are up-to-date on required immunizations. For families without a health care provider, Public Health Nursing offers low-cost back-to-school immunizations for eligible children. Public Health can provide all childhood vaccinations […]
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