Like years past, Douglas County sheriff’s deputies expect to close Highway 50 in the Stateline casino corridor on New Year’s Eve to handle all of the people milling about. While there have been 60,000 revelers in the past, that number has declined even before SnowGlobe came to town two years ago. SnowGlobe is back. And […]
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By Sidsel Overgaard, NPR Who doesn’t love a Danish pastry? And in Denmark, they like their pastries sprinkled with plenty of cinnamon. But now, Denmark’s bakers are being told that their time-honored recipe for the beloved kanelsnegle –or cinnamon swirl — may be unhealthy and against the law. Recent testing by the Danish government found […]
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By Kathryn Reed Olympic Valley – it might be California’s next town. More than enough signatures were gathered this month for Placer County’s Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) to have to look into the viability of making Olympic Valley a town. Twenty-five percent of the registered voters needed to sign the petitions; 30 percent did […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Dec. 18, 2013, Los Angeles Times. Six months after Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency was indiscriminately collecting the phone records of Americans and holding on to them for years for possible use in terrorism investigations, a federal judge has rightly ruled that the program probably […]
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By Dan Nakaso, San Jose Mercury News It seems simple enough: To be labeled as “Made in America,” a product sold in California must include only components manufactured and assembled in this nation. But that’s a tougher standard than elsewhere in the country, where small amounts of foreign parts don’t invalidate the label. And now […]
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By Kathryn Reed There are so many things to love about San Francisco. Food is one one them. It would be so easy to eat at a different restaurant each day for every meal. But there is one that I always like to return to – Greens. My mom first took me there years ago. […]
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal Living so close to Tinseltown does have its advantages on occasion, including having a troupe of thespians filming literally in your backyard. Placer County has had its share of movie shoots – think “Phenomenon,” “The Godfather II” and even Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” – but El Dorado County has […]
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By Theresa Harrington, Contra Costa Times SACRAMENTO — California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson declared a fiscal state of emergency in K-12 education 3½ years ago. But much has changed since then. Now, Torlakson says, schools are in better financial shape and ready to take on the challenges of new education standards and computerized […]
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• South Tahoe Alliance of Resorts gave $5,000 each to Christmas Cheer, Live Violence Free and Tahoe Youth & Family Services. • The Douglas County Public Library in Zephyr Cove will be closed Jan. 1. It will reopen Jan. 2 at 9am. • The Las Vegas Sun reports: “A Nevada law allowing medical marijuana dispensaries […]
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Strong temperature inversions and stagnant weather conditions are causing air pollution levels to increase rapidly in the valleys of Carson City and Douglas County. The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection is asking people in the Eagle and Carson valleys to refrain from burning wood this week. Where wood is the only option, people should burn […]
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