By James Queally, Kate Mather and Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times In 2013, something changed on the streets of Los Angeles. Police officers began making fewer arrests. The following year, the Los Angeles Police Department’s arrest numbers dipped even lower and continued to fall, dropping by 25 percent from 2013 to 2015. The statewide […]
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By Bart Jansen, USA Today President Trump’s temporary travel ban and an inhospitable political climate could punch an $18 billion hole in U.S. tourism by international visitors over the next two years, projections by travel analysts show. Foreign tourism is a $250 billion-a-year business in the United States, and Trump’s original and revised executive orders temporarily […]
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By Susan Wood If Katie Sonntag, 17, and Leah Marino, 16, were to hear “you hit like a girl,” that would be a big compliment in the world of sports. These are no ordinary teenagers playing hockey. The local girls, who grew up and practiced their skills at the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena, each […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee When Gov. Jerry Brown campaigned for his sales and income tax increase five years ago, he appealed to statewide voters by arguing it would cost them just “one penny more” for their cappuccinos. In the Bay Area trying to build support for his $5.2 billion road-funding package, Brown acknowledged […]
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By Krista Langlois, High Country News In the late 1980s, a Japanese scientist named Koji Minoura stumbled on a medieval poem that described a tsunami so large it had swept away a castle and killed a thousand people. Intrigued, Minoura and his team began looking for paleontological evidence of the tsunami beneath rice paddies, and […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink Look around your mudroom or closet or living room. How many hats do you have? If you are like most people, you have a lot. Trucker hats, baseball hats, flat billed hats, you name it — you most likely have one or two or three. And you probably have room […]
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By Kathryn Reed The snow — it won’t stop. For people living in the Sierra it’s becoming the winter that won’t end. For water users downstream, it means the spigot won’t be turned off during the dry summer months. Under snowy grey skies on Thursday the snow survey near Sierra-at-Tahoe revealed water content of 46.1 […]
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By Stuart Leavenworth, McClatchy Two generations ago, they were often written off as a bunch of hippies making backpacks and climbing gear for niche markets. But in recent decades, companies such as Patagonia and REI have become consumer powerhouses and political players, increasingly eager to influence decisions over public lands. A sign of that clout […]
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By Megan Michelson, Powder Take a drive through any ski town, and chances are you’ll find a lot of dark houses. Fancy homes where nobody lives, million dollar crash pads where the lights shine just a few times a year. In Mammoth, it’s not just ski bums and twentysomethings who can’t find places to […]
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By Kathryn Reed “The problem with the status is something we are taking very seriously.” Those are the words of Bob Grant about accreditation at South Tahoe High School. Grant is essentially second in charge of Lake Tahoe Unified School District, The district office and staff at STHS are focusing much of their attention on […]
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