By Kathryn Reed The financial situation in El Dorado County continues to deteriorate. The obligation to retirees via CalPERS keeps growing and contract negotiations with employees could be going better. The county’s unfunded obligation to the California Public Employees Retirement System is more than $346 million. This is $64 million more than when the last […]
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By Minerva G. Carcaño For a nation that prides itself on its care for children, efforts to eliminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program seem contradictory to this value and mean-spirited. Eliminating DACA would be a punishing of the innocent and a crippling of our future. Nearly 800,000 young people have benefited from […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee California secession efforts are plentiful this year, but tech billionaire Tim Draper wants to go old school: Just split the Golden State into three. Draper spent more than $5 million in 2014 on an unsuccessful effort to qualify a ballot measure asking voters to divide California into six states. He […]
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By Katy Murphy, Bay Area News Group For the first time Californians would pay a tax on drinking water — 95 cents per month — under legislation aimed at fixing hundreds of public water systems with unsafe tap water. Senate Bill 623, backed by a strange-bedfellows coalition of the agricultural lobby and environmental groups but opposed […]
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This September, the Village at Squaw Valley will host a battle of epic proportions–Guitar Strings vs. Chicken Wings–with five restaurants and five bands facing off for the ultimate supremacy for best wings and best band. On Sept. 15 from 4-9:30pm each restaurant will be cooking its signature recipes for spicy, flavor-packed chicken wings and joining […]
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By Paul Harasim, Las Vegas Review-Journal A nonprofit created by heavy hitters from Nevada’s business and medical communities gave the state a D grade on its first report card on the state’s health-care system. The report card was released Wednesday by the Nevada Medical Center, or NMC, and is intended to focus attention on improving […]
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· TedX South Lake Tahoe is Sept. 29 at 5:30pm at Lake Tahoe Community College’s Duke Theater. Doors open at 3:30pm. The $55 tickets are available online. · Two-time magician of the year Jonathan Neil will be at The Loft in South Lake Tahoe from Sept. 7-19. · Mike Reid has been hired to be […]
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A golf tournament to raise money for South Tahoe High School’s football team will be Sept. 30 at Lake Tahoe Golf Course in Meyers. Registration begins at 8am, with a shotgun start at 9am. Cost is $100 per person. For more information, email stvquarterbackclub@hotmail.com.
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By Louis Hansen, Bay Area News Group A pilot project is making an electric vehicle road trip in Northern California a little cheaper, easier and with a little less range anxiety. A fast-charging network, known as Drive the ARC, is bringing more than 50 new electric stations installed at about 25 sites from Monterey to Lake […]
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Campers at Martis Creek Lake Alpine Meadows Campground near Truckee are being warned to take precautions to avoid contracting plague. The Army Corps of Engineers put up warning signs this week as well as insecticide treated bait stations. The goal is to kill the fleas that can carry the disease. Plague is naturally present throughout […]
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