By Jon Ralston, Las Vegas Sun Watching the predictable, partisan reaction to the national unemployment rate and the jobs report last week made me wonder if people in Nevada know just how bad we have it. We can only dream of 9.1 percent unemployment here. The last time we were that low? George W. Bush […]
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As part of its Chamber EDucation program, the North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sierra Economic Development Corporation is hosting a “Grow the Green by Going Green” workshop Aug. 18 from noon to 1:30pm at the Mark Twain Cultural Center, 760 Mays Blvd., Ste. 10 in Incline Village. Deadline to register […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal John Larsen’s 36-year voyage as a purveyor of submarine sandwiches has been anything but calm. He’s faced some of the harshest seas a businessman can imagine — and took them, in character with his upbringing, head-on. “You do whatever you got to do. I never took ‘no’ for an answer,” […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Dramatic changes” is how Guy LeFever describes what he has experienced in the 33 years he has worked for the Tahoe-Douglas Fire Protection District. The fire chief’s last day is Sept. 2. His career started in 1975 on a hand crew for Los Angeles County – a crew much like the ones […]
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Transparency is supposedly coming to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. At least that’s the goal of legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation was sponsored by state Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, who represents the California side of Lake Tahoe. SB593 requires each California member of the TRPA to comply with the requirements of […]
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By Nathaniel Popper and E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times Wall Street retreated back into panic mode amid growing worries about the economy, prompting leaders of major U.S. banks to take the rare step of assuring jittery investors that a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis was not about to happen. The chief executives of […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Casino operator Tropicana Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas reported a second quarter loss Tuesday as business deteriorated at its properties in Atlantic City and Nevada. The company, controlled by investor Carl Icahn, said it lost $2.7 million vs. a loss of $1.6 million in the year-ago quarter. Net revenue […]
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The board that oversees recreation Measure S on Wednesday voted on all the necessary motions to go back to the voters. Measure R would revise the 11-year-old Measure S to allow for more bike trails to be given funding for maintenance and more money for ball fields. The boundaries for the people paying the $18 […]
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A woman who knows the Eldorado National Forest well has been tapped to be the forest supervisor for that region. Kathy Hardy replaces Ramiro Villalvazo who left in June for a position in the Forest Service’s Regional Office in Vallejo. Hardy’s start date has not been determined. She was Placerville District Ranger in Camino from […]
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Author Janet Kaidantzis will sign her book “Fallen Leaf, A Lake and its People: at the Lake Tahoe Museum on Aug. 19 form 3-6pm. The cover says, “From the Washoe to the pioneering families of Nathan Gilmore, Lucky Baldwin and William Price to the artists, academics and craftsmen of the early community, Fallen Leaf Lake […]
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