By Hannah Dreier, AP When Springfield, Mass., needed to choose who would build its first casino, the city hired an outside adviser to help with the process. The consulting firm Shefsky & Froelich recommended the deal go to MGM Resorts International. At the same time, the consulting firm also was working as a registered lobbyist […]
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By Jeremy Miller Well here’s the newest installment in the “Riddick” franchise. At the helm of course we have Vin Diesel sided by Katee Sackhoff, Jordi Molla, Matt Nable, and Karl Urban. After being deserted by his newly adopted Necromonger pals Riddick gets back to his roots and rediscovers his more savage side in order […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — The head of the government’s $70 million wild-horse management program warned last summer that it is headed for financial collapse unless “drastic changes” are made in the decades-old roundup policy she said could be setting U.S. rangeland-improvement goals back 20 years. In a strongly worded internal memo to an […]
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By Robert D. Dávila, Sacramento Bee Tom Sullivan, a dedicated public servant who advocated for treatment services as mental health director for El Dorado and Sacramento counties, died Feb. 7 after a recent stroke, his family said. He was 71. Mr. Sullivan was a widely recognized expert on mental health policy in California. He began […]
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By Alastair Bland, NPR Brewers around the country boast that their “pure” local water is the key to their beers’ unique flavor. Coors credits the trout streams of the Rockies. Olympia Beer’s slogan is, “It’s the water.” Cold Spring Brewing Co., in Minnesota, is named for a nearby natural spring. In Sonoma County, Lagunitas Brewing […]
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The four-story Villa Del Mar Motel & Apartments from the 1960s was perched on the beach at 3351 Lake Tahoe Blvd., directly across from the Bank of America in South Lake Tahoe. The former motel investors purchased the property in 1973 and renovated it as the Lakefront Professional Building. In 1999, however, a late night […]
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By Kathryn Reed In many ways it’s an emergency room or intensive care unit that flies. Calstar – or California Shock Trauma Air Rescue – has a base at Lake Tahoe Airport that makes runs down to Mammoth, far into Nevada, up to Quincy and over to Georgetown. But much of the work the pilots […]
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By Norma Santiago In the early ’90s, the Meyers community established a committee whose primary task was to create a community plan that was reflective of the Meyers community’s vision. The plan concept, as stated in the Meyers Community Plan, “is to enhance the identity and image of Meyers as a community center and a […]
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• Placer County has redesigned its website. • USA Today is calling the fireplace at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe one of best fireplaces to curl up by. • The Bureau of Land Management is going to hire the first full-time manager for Burning Man. • Barton Health is celebrating patient Safety Awareness Week on March […]
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By Haitham “Hutch” Ashoo and Chris Snyder More and more Americans – 28 percent in 2013 — say they’re not at all confident they’ll have a comfortable retirement, according to an annual survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute. Even the wealthiest among us have concerns; 38 percent of U.S. multi-millionaires are not “very confident” […]
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