• Liberty Utilities website provides answers to frequently asked questions about its proposed project on the North Shore. There is a link to the project FAQs on the front page under “In The News.” • Check out this story to see how San Francisco is dealing with parking ticket citations. • Literary Art and Wine […]
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By Gloria Goodale, Christian Science Monitor As California faces the worst drought in its 163-year history with no hint of relief in sight, some scientists are calling the event a red flag for the future of the nation. Gov. Jerry Brown raised the issue in his State of the State address Wednesday, saying “we do […]
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South Tahoe Drug Free Coalition is looking for people who are concerned about the area’s party and drug culture and want to help decide how a grant can be used to create lasting change. In September, Tahoe Youth & Family Services was awarded a Federal Drug Free Communities grant on behalf of the South Tahoe […]
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By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times Local school districts, state legislators and even a California governor have tried to limit teachers’ job protections, among the most generous in the country. Efforts have all failed to rid public schools of ineffective teachers by making it easier to fire them and tougher for them to gain tenure […]
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By USSA CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Two-time Olympian Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) led the U.S. Ski Team with 13th in super G Sunday, the last of four races held over four days in Cortina to close the Olympic qualification period. The U.S. Alpine Ski Team nominations to the 2014 U.S. Olympic Team will be announced […]
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In the 1930s, Bill Harrah operated a poker parlor in Venice, Calif., prior to moving his business to Reno. In January 1955, he purchased George’s Gateway Club on the Lake Tahoe border of Stateline Avenue and Highway 50 (photo No. 1) which he opened as Harrah’s Club (No. 2) that summer. Until about 1960, Carson […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – Spring in January. It’s not something I want to get used to. But it is something I’m going to enjoy for hopefully what is just a brief interruption of winter. Not wanting to endure ice on the trails, we opted to head off the hill last weekend in search of […]
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By Robert Reich Fifty years ago, when Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty, the poor were different – “other,” as in Michael Harrington’s seminal book of 1962, “The Other America.” That’s no longer the case. After the War on Poverty ended, Republicans told working-class whites that their hard-earned tax dollars were being siphoned off to […]
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By Cynthia H. Craft, Sacramento Bee Once thought to be nearly eradicated, pertussis, the highly contagious respiratory disease also known as whooping cough, surged last year in many areas of California, with hundreds more cases reported in 2013 than in the previous year, state figures show. In the greater Sacramento region, the largest bump in […]
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By USSA ASPEN -– Olympian Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe) earned silver Saturday at the X Games slopestyle snowboarding final after Norway’s Silje Norendal stomped a smooth run and pushed her out of the top spot. Anderson and Norendal will meet again when slopestyle snowboarding makes its historic Olympic debut at the 2014 Olympic Winter […]
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