By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal Washoe County officials are starting to gauge the fallout of a Nevada Supreme Court decision from last week that ordered the county to issue property tax refunds to Incline Village and Crystal Bay property owners and opened a budget hole that could exceed $40 million by early estimates. The refunds […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee For the second time in two years, the Placer County Republican Central Committee is facing investigators’ questions about its financial practices. The state Fair Political Practices Commission is examining a complaint that key committee members used donors’ money to benefit themselves. A critic of the committee’s actions says she’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Righteous, ridiculous, right-on, responsible. Plenty of people have a special way of defining the R in Measure R. The board that on Wednesday voted to put it on the November ballot believes R stands for recreation. The R is replacing Measure S – which stood for sports when South Shore voters approved […]
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By Tom Del Beccaro New York, New Jersey and California have a lot in common. They’re populous states with Democratic legislative majorities, high taxes and big deficits. The difference, however, is that the New York and New Jersey Democrats have enacted reforms while California Democrats remain the Party of No. Earlier this year, New Jersey’s […]
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Trails and Vistas’ annual nature art hike is Sept. 17-18 at Spooner Lake at the Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. Volunteers make Trails and Vistas possible. This year is no exception, as more than 50 volunteers are needed to ensure a successful event. This month Trails and Vistas will offer a volunteer workshop titled “Finding […]
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Publisher’s note: Find out who the 100 highest paid employees in the CSU system are. By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee Minutes after voting to raise student tuition by 12 percent for the fall, California State University trustees on Tuesday decided the salary for a new campus president should be $100,000 greater than his predecessor’s. Lt. […]
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Numerous North Shore agencies will participate in a disaster exercise July 20 starting at 9am that will simulate a significant hazardous materials spill after a semi-tanker strikes a train in the downtown Truckee area. This will be the first time the full decontamination system will have been tested with a large number of casualties. The […]
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TAMBA trail work day is July 16. The mountain bike group has a Volunteer Service Agreement with the U.S. Forest Service and this will be our first official trail building day. Help build armored berms, strengthen the sandy loose areas of trail, and identify where to build additional features on the top portions of Armstrong […]
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Jon Foley, director of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota, will present “Solutions for a Cultivated Planet: Learning to Feed 9 Billion People While Sustaining the Global Environment” on July 28 from 6:30-8pm at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach. The world population is growing by 75 million people […]
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The Professional Disc Golf Association and the Tahoe Disc Golf Association are hosting the 2011 King of the Lake event July 15-17 at Tahoe Vista Regional Park, Zephyr Cove Park, Turtle Rock Park and Bijou Community Park. The tournament is sanctioned by the Professional Disc Golf Association as one of nine premier events in the […]
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