By Will Lyons, Wall Street Journal Fine-wine collectors know the drill well. Every year, you allocate a small sum to buy a case of that special wine you know will improve your cellar. Having bought it on release, you lay it down for maturing until the time comes when its tannins, fruit and acidity are […]
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By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — Polar bears and penguins are usually the first creatures that come to mind when considering the likely victims of global warming, but a new study finds that fish, coral and other inhabitants of the tropics will be the first to take the brunt of climate change. An […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee California water quality regulators will soon begin inspecting illegal marijuana growing operations in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada, reversing an earlier ban intended to protect employees. At a meeting Friday in Rancho Cordova, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board directed staff to begin cooperating with other agencies […]
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More than 50 people were treated to an insider’s view of what it takes to be a successful and published poet Robert Krut, winner of the 2012 Melissa Lanitis Gregory Poetry Prize and UC Santa Barbara instructor, and Patricia Smith, nationally acclaimed writer, poet, performer and distinguished visiting professor and writer-in-residence at Sierra Nevada College […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Seventy-five people may face criminal charges after being caught in six simultaneous statewide undercover sting operations conducted this week by the Contractors State License Board. Among those arrested during CSLB’s fall “California Blitz” were two registered sex offenders, two individuals with multiple prior felonies, three who had an active arrest […]
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El Dorado and Placer counties are the beneficiaries of California Transportation Commission funds. Some of the $359 million allocated this week for 36 projects is headed this way. Projects include: · $6.6 million to replace the Sly Park Road undercrossing near Pollock Pines. Construction is scheduled for spring of 2014. · $2.4 million at the […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – While work has been going on at the 8.117-acre former Tahoe Pines Campground since the California Tahoe Conservancy purchased it for $4.018 million in 2008, more substantive improvements could come late next summer. The CTC board at its September meeting was given an overview of what staff is contemplating […]
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To the community, The Cash Mob lunch on Oct. 8 at Gunbarrel Tavern & Eatery was a success. Fifteen people showed up to try a variety of menu items including beer can chicken, shrimp ‘n grits, and jalapeno bacon mac ‘n cheese at the newest restaurant in the Heavenly Village. Gunbarrel Tavern officially opened their […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Having a stroke, or even a transient ischemic attack (a TIA, often called a “mini-stroke”) can be a costly watershed in a person’s life. Statistically, it deducts years from patients’ lives. But it claims another toll too: in quality of life after the stroke has happened. New research tallies […]
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By Laura Cole, CBS-13 The campaign for a water district seat is generating controversy after a mailer was linked to a developer whose address happens to be a building owned by the county. It’s not too often a little-watched race for the El Dorado Irrigation District makes news, but a flyer sent to voters’ homes […]
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