By Joe Mathews One lesson of this California election is already clear: Don’t dismiss apocalyptic warnings from Stockton. If you have a television, you’re encountering a barrage of ill-advised Stockton dismissals. Gov. Jerry Brown, labor unions and Sacramento infrastructure lobbies are trying to defeat a November ballot initiative—Proposition 53, which would require voter approval for […]
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To the community, According to Tahoe Transportation District at the presentation to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, “While the project and its alternatives focus on directing traffic flow around the casino corridor and creating a more walkable and bikeable downtown area, the creation of affordable housing is at the heart of the project,” said [Carl] […]
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By Tracy Rucinski, Reuters Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s main casino operating unit has begun a process to raise up to $3.8 billion of cash needed to exit a contentious two-year bankruptcy, according to a court filing on Wednesday. After more than a year of legal wrangling, the Caesars subsidiary last month secured support from the vast […]
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By Trevor Hughes, USA Today With California voters poised to legalize marijuana this month, investors face a choice: jump into an industry whose tantalizing growth prospects are hamstrung by its criminal legacy or wait until federal-level banking and legal restrictions get resolved. California for decades has been home to a thriving illegal marketplace for black-market cannabis, but a legalization […]
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It was disclosed late Nov. 4 that Jason Collin’s political financial documents have been sitting in the South Lake Tahoe city clerk’s office. “Apparently a Form 460 was dropped off at the finance counter in an envelope marked Susan Alessi and was left on her desk. She has been out of the office and I don’t […]
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By Kathryn Reed Whole Foods is coming to South Lake Tahoe after all. The announcement came this week in conjunction with the high-end supermarket chain’s fourth quarter earnings report. Leases for its 365 by Whole Foods Market stores have been signed in South Lake Tahoe, Redlands, and Fairfax, Va. Details of the lease have not […]
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To the community, On Oct. 30, the election committee for the Nevada-based chamber of commerce filed its official report with the city for expenditures for the upcoming City Council election. That filing reported over $30,000 spend on behalf of the two candidates they are supporting. $30,000 is a lot of money and this is in […]
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By Vicki Gonzalez, KCRA-TV An El Dorado County woman’s vote-by-mail ballot mistakenly was sent more than 650 miles away to Utah. The El Dorado County Registrar of Voters is trying to get back the California ballot after it mistakenly traveled out-of-state. A woman from South Lake Tahoe mailed her ballot last week when it ended […]
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Weather and conditions permitting, the Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations beginning Nov. 6. Operation locations include areas off Logan Creek Drive and on Kingsbury Grade, and on urban lots near Heavenly Mountain Resort and off North Upper Truckee Road on the South Shore. Operations will continue […]
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· Placer County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 15 at 9am will have a public hearing regarding various aspects of Squaw Valley’s plans to develop the base area. Supes will be looking at the Planning Commission’s approval from August. The meeting is at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. · Douglas County Public […]
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