Less than three weeks after the Placer County Planning Commission approved the Northstar Mountain Master Plan, the Board of Supervisors did the same. It was a 5-0 vote on Feb. 21. Components of the plan include: New terrain: Includes access to the Sawtooth Range. Approximately 293 acres of new groomable ski trails are proposed with over […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Activists packed a Nevada state Senate committee room on Monday during a three-hour hearing for the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that yielded a wildly divided perspectives. The Equal Rights Amendment, commonly known as the ERA, was birthed out of the feminist movement during the late-1960s and early 1970s. It […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal The South Dayton Retention Pond above east Dayton is expected to fail, according to the National Weather Service’s social media pages. However, there is no actual dam failure, according to Lyon County. Read the whole story
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 18, 2017, Sacramento Bee. No disaster is entirely natural in our re-engineered state and valley. Owing to our hubris, we humans have a direct hand in them all. We have built cities on earthquake faults, balanced mansions on hillsides that burn in one season and slide into […]
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By Kathryn Reed My book club rates what we read based on if we liked it, would we recommend it and literary merit. The scale is 0-10, with 10 being the highest. “The Sound of Gravel” received several zeros, a few eights and a lot in between. My scores for this memoir by Ruth Wariner […]
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By Larry Weitzman In my 20 years of testing cars and trucks, driving the most luxurious cars in the world, Mercedes S550, Audi A8, VW Phaeton, Cadillacs, Lexus LS, BMW 7 Series, Infinitis and even a Bentley and Rolls now and then, I have finally driven perhaps the best luxury ride of them all, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Roads remain a mess in the greater Lake Tahoe area as another storm system pummels the already saturated mountains. The main closure is on Mount Rose Highway because a wall of snow, 20-feet deep fell there on Monday. No time has been given when it might reopen. It is closed at the […]
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Vail Resorts today announced it has acquired Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont. Mt. Mansfield Company, a subsidiary of American International Group, sold the resort for $50 million. It had been under the same ownership since 1949. This is the first resort on the East Coast that the Broomfield-Colo.-based ski behemoth has purchased. Vail Resorts is […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Students in Cliff Smith’s AutoCAD class at South Tahoe High School are printing out more than just term papers. Since fall 2015, students have had the opportunity to not only design three dimensional objects with the computer aided drafting software, but watch their creations come to life with the help of in-class […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee Capping a yearlong assessment of pay equity among its ranks, the California Senate late last year gave 10 percent raises to 71 employees to shrink a lingering gap between what male and female employees earn. The raises, which total about $602,000 annually, followed the passage of a 2015 law expanding […]
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