By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee At the very end of his State of the State address to the Legislature last week, Gov. Jerry Brown – almost as an afterthought – tersely declared, “We have too many struggling families …” Well, yes, we do. In fact, according to an alternate Census Bureau method of calculating poverty […]
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• Sports Illustrated has multiple cover shots of Olympians. Jamie Anderson from Meyers who rides for Sierra-at-Tahoe is on one. • El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting’s trial has been moved to April 8. • Bluegrass folk trio Devil Makes Three will be at MontBleu in Stateline on Feb. 8 at 9pm. • Royal Gorge […]
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National Geographic’s TV show “The Legend of Mick Dodge” will be shown Feb. 4 at 5pm at Tunnel Creek Café in Incline Village. The show highlights Mick Dodge’s relationship to the wilderness and the underlying philosophy found in a fitness practice called the Earthgym, which was created by Dodge and Incline Village resident Jacquie Chandler. […]
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Multi-award winning country stars the Zac Brown Band will be at Harveys on July 20. They will be in town during the 25th annual celebrity golf tournament. The opening act has yet to be named. Tickets go on sale Feb. 14. They range in price from $59.50 to $135.50, plus fees. […]
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It’s going to take a while for people to get to and from Lake Tahoe tonight. There was a single-vehicle accident on Highway 50 near Kyburz about 4:30pm Jan. 31 that had the highway closed for two hours. One-way controlled traffic started moving about 6:45pm. California Highway Patrol told Lake Tahoe News the vehicle was […]
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By Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting The infant boy had been left alone in a closet. He was strapped into a car seat, facing a wall on the second floor of a Milpitas day care. A state inspector discovered the isolated boy when she visited in April and shut down the day care that […]
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On Feb. 6 at 6:30pm there will be a meeting to discuss the recent unveiling of the Meyers catalyst project. This meeting is not sponsored by any agency, but instead by concerned residents. The project calls for a multi-story, multi-acre resort and parking garage in Meyers. Proponents call it an idea, not a project. The […]
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By Elizabeth Campbell, Bloomberg At Donovan’s Pub in Woodside, N.Y., this season’s record corn crop means owner Dan Connor is offering a new special for football fans: free chicken wings. “Normally during football season, there’s such a spike in prices for wings that it directly affects us,” said Connor, who expects to serve as many […]
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The ninth annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival On Tour will be in Stateline on March 27. Doors open at MontBleu casino at 6pm, with the show starting at 7pm. The film tour combines award winning environmental and adventure films with the energy of local activism. The event is a benefit for the Sierra Nevada […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun Marijuana advocates say they are crafting the necessary initiative language for Nevada voters to approve the use of pot for recreational purposes, perhaps by next year. In their best scenario, enough Nevada voters — a minimum of about 102,000 — will sign petitions supporting legalization of marijuana, setting the […]
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