By Rick Daysog, Sacramento Bee Valero Energy Corp. CEO Bill Klesse once jokingly suggested oil industry executives should fight global warming by holding their breath. Now, his company has emerged as a major force behind the November ballot measure to suspend California’s climate change law. Since its start as a small Texas gasoline maker more […]
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By Stephen M. Silverman, People Jaycee Dugard’s incredible story of survival during 18 years of captivity until her 2009 rescue, will be published next year. And the author: Dugard herself. Publisher Simon & Schuster said in a release that Dugard, now 30, will tell of her life from the time of her 1991 abduction to […]
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To the publisher, The debate swirling around the Upper Truckee River Restoration and Golf Course Reconfiguration Project is not a debate about river restoration. All participants support this end. It’s not even a debate between golfers and environmentalists. Few, if any, deny the right of the golfers to play on the current Lake Tahoe Country […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch The state’s food and agriculture department announced the winners of a $17.2 million federal grant designed to promote specialty crops, including vegetables, fruits and nuts, in the state. Among the 63 winners were Sunsweet Growers Inc., which received $450,000 to develop a high-fiber breakfast prune bread, and scientists at UC […]
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By Maggie O’Neill, Reno Gazette-Journal If things go as planned Mary Bennington, 53, will be the Tahoe Rim Trail Association’s executive director when the nonprofit celebrates 30 years in 2011. Bennington became executive director in May, replacing Mark Kimbrough who served as executive director for 7.5 years. “This is one of those dream jobs,” she […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee An industry that relies on giving is taking some lumps these days. Northern California charitable organizations big and small have seen donations decline as the recession, high unemployment and declining home values erode donors’ wealth. Competition for the dwindling pool of private donations is also up, since nonprofits that long […]
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By Kathryn Reed Foreclosure. It is the word circulating around the bankrupt convention center project in South Lake Tahoe. Randy Lane, principal with Lake Tahoe Development Community, wants the creditors to hold off a few more years. “We are just asking for more time to figure things out and sell the property, which has not […]
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By Robert J. Samuelson, Newsweek As 56 million children return to the nation’s 133,000 elementary and secondary schools, the promise of “reform” is again in the air. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has announced $4 billion in Race to the Top grants to states whose proposals demonstrated, according to Duncan, “a bold commitment to education reform” […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Sept. 22, 2010, Chico Enterprise-Record. Our view: Saying schools must have water available in the cafeteria is like saying classrooms must have roofs. Of course it should be mandatory. There are two kinds of legislation that bother us. OK, maybe there are more than two, but these are […]
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Douglas County Sheriff’s Department is sponsoring a Crime Prevention Conference for all multi-family housing property managers, manufactured housing managers, hotel- motel managers, rental housing owners and managers including vacation rental property managers and RV- campground managers. It is designed to help “Keep Illegal Activity out of Rental Properties”. The free conference on the South Shore […]
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