By John Garamendi California’s aging water infrastructure is insufficient for our present and future needs. Unfortunately, the current Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) and its two massive tunnels is a destructive $25 billion boondoggle that won’t solve the problem. California can solve its water needs and end the water wars that pit north vs. south […]
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Updated: Jan. 2 8:05pm South Lake Tahoe police at about 8pm Jan. 2 said Chantel Good of Reno had been located. She was not injured and she had not been abducted. —- South Lake Tahoe police officers are looking for a missing Reno woman. Chantel Good, 21, was reported missing on Jan. 1. According to […]
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Updated: 7:05pm Jan. 2 El Dorado County search and rescue crews located an injured skier and his dog above Echo Lakes on Wednesday. “He blew out his knee skiing Echo Peak behind Angora Lake and called his girlfriend,” sheriff’s Lt. Pete Van Arnum told Lake Tahoe News. Peter Brumis, 36, of South Lake Tahoe and […]
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By Franco Ordonez and Casey Conley, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — With millions of baby boomers reaching retirement age, fears are mounting of the economic impact if they follow the pattern of previous generations by curbing spending and draining Social Security and Medicare benefits. But the 78 million boomers – born from 1946 to 1964 – […]
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For now, the biomass facility on the North Shore is stalled. Two weeks after the Placer County Planning Commission approved the conditional use permit and certified the final environmental impact report, the Center for Biological Diversity filed an appeal. The appeal will be on before the Board of Supervisors by the end of March. The […]
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By Michael J. Mishak, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — When Gov. Jerry Brown spoke to a crowd of beaming environmentalists and renewable energy advocates at the launch of a solar farm last year, he turned heads by praising another form of fuel: oil. It was a surprising pivot from the man credited with helping to […]
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By Rich Miller and Michelle Jamrisko, Bloomberg Rising income inequality is starting to hit home for many American households as they run short of places to reach for a few extra bucks. As the gap between the rich and poor widened over the last three decades, families at the bottom found ways to deal with […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – Congress stretched the rules a bit by naming a Yosemite National Park-area mountain after the late Olympic star and longtime Mono County Supervisor Andrea Lawrence. And most everyone is cool with that. Within days, President Obama is expected to sign the legislation designating a 12,240-foot peak near Yosemite […]
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Most passes are no longer blacked out. Enjoy the excellent conditions. Here is the Jan. 2 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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By Kelly Shanahan It doesn’t have the pink ribbons and 5K runs of October (breast cancer awareness month), but January is just as important: it is cervical health awareness month. More than 12,000 women will be diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2013 and 4,000 will die. This statistic is especially tragic because cervical cancer is […]
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