By Ben Steverman, Bloomberg The shift from pensions to 401(k) plans is making retirement inequality much worse—and education is what separates the haves from the have-nots, a new study has found. College graduates have always been able to get better jobs. What’s new in recent decades is that traditional pensions have all but vanished, replaced […]
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By Associated Press Government officials say traffic fatalities rose 7.2 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year. That’s the largest single-year increase in a half century. The final tally of 35,092 deaths released this week by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is 0.5 percent lower than the 7.7 percent estimated increase released in July. NHTSA […]
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President Obama was the keynote speaker at the Aug. 31 Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit.
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – President Obama bridged the environmental and economic divide in a speech at Lake Tahoe on Wednesday that left no doubt that without addressing climate change, the land, water and social welfare of this basin and all areas will be left to wither in the wind. Obama was speaking to thousands […]
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The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians and the Eldorado National Forest have signed a five-year agreement to work cooperatively on the Wrights Lake Fuels Reduction Project. This project will improve fire safety in a popular recreation area with heavily used trails, a developed campground, lake access for boating, and 75 privately owned cabins under […]
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Thousands of NV Energy customers in Douglas County and Carson City are without power. Power is expected to be restored at 6pm Aug. 31. The outage in Carson was first reported about 3:30pm. A tent flew into a line in Carson City, according to a utility spokeswoman. In Douglas there are 1,152 customers affected, and […]
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By Valerie Miller, Las Vegas Sun As 5 o’clock rolls around, people are trickling into Charles Ploski’s Henderson business. A father and his grown son, a new dad and a married couple all shop and stay awhile, maybe grabbing a soda while they chat with Ploski. This warm interaction could be at a coffeehouse or neighborhood […]
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· Tickets are on sale for the annual Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe wine tasting event on Nov. 11 from 6-9:30pm at MontBleu in Stateline. Tickets are available online for $70 until Oct. 1, $75 after that date. · California State Parks and California Tahoe Conservancy are having two workshops to gather input about the future of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Douglas County commissioners, while they say they want water districts to consolidate, are gun shy to take a step in that direction even though staff this month asked them to do so. At their meeting in Stateline the electeds were presented with the option to financially separate the Cave Rock and Uppaway […]
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A dead bird found near Placerville has tested positive for West Nile virus, the first this year. The bird, a Western Scrub Jay, was found Aug. 23. There have been no reported cases of human infection with West Nile virus this year in El Dorado County. As of Aug. 26, West Nile virus activity has been […]
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