By Sean Whaley and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Every Nevada county will have an insurance carrier through the state exchange in 2018, ending two months of uncertainty about coverage. Gov. Brian Sandoval, speaking outside Renown Health Urgent Care Clinic in Silver Springs in Lyon County, announced in a press conference Tuesday that SilverSummit will […]
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By Tony Berendsen The Milky Way in August as seen from the North Shore of Lake Tahoe is spectacular to behold on a moonless evening. Breaching as a gigantic silvery whale our galaxy’s shape towers across the sky through the constellation of Cassiopeia and at the South Shore it’s heart is exposed near the constellation […]
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By Zachary Child Back problems can be severe. A natural alarm in the body signals a sudden, debilitating onset of gripping back pain. It not only hurts, but interferes with your ability to work, play, and participate in your daily activities. Most adult Americans, between 80 and 100 percent, will experience severe lower back pain […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee A California lawmaker has made a key change to expand the reach of a plan designed to speed up construction of affordable housing projects. The move suggests the Legislature, due to return from summer recess Monday for a final four-week crush of business in the 2017 session, is moving toward […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Ten weeks after Placer County Sheriff Devon Bell announced that three of his officials had been arrested on allegations of excessive force against inmates at the Auburn Main Jail, his department is facing a series of lawsuits claiming that abuse at the jail has routinely gone unchecked and that video […]
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By Judy Horst, InMenlo Stanford men’s basketball coach Jerod Haase wanted to play for Stanford while growing up in South Lake Tahoe, but attended Cal before transferring to the University of Kansas, playing for coach Roy Williams. Haase highlighted Stanford’s upcoming men’s basketball season for the audience at the Menlo Park Kiwanis Club’s luncheon earlier […]
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· The Aug. 29 South Lake Tahoe City Council workshop on marijuana will be at 5pm at the airport. · The American Century Championship golf tournament’s record attendance of 55,801 was a 16 percent increase from 2016. · South Tahoe High grad Leon Abravanel is now head coach of his alma mater’s boys’ soccer team. […]
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By Kathryn Reed SnowGlobe, the three-day controversial music festival, is going to be part of the South Shore lexicon for another decade. The South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday agreed to several details in what will be a long-term contract with Chad Donnelly, who first brought the electronic, mostly disc jockey produced bass-centric music […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County has a competent deputy chief administrative officer and former chief budget officer working in our administration, Laura Schwartz. She understands cash flow, spending and overall, she is pretty smart. I understand she has a master’s degree in accounting. Darn good credentials. In fact, about the only thing I remember […]
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By Hawken Miller, Sacramento Bee Knikki Royster starts her workday as a juvenile court teacher in San Diego at 7:30 a.m., and she’s not sure what to do if her two kids can’t start high school until an hour later. “I don’t like the idea of my kids having to walk to school. I prefer […]
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