By Mayumi Elegado and Dave Zook, Moonshine Ink Agreements and execution are different beasts, and sizable differences exist between the two. It could be said that nowhere is that distance greater than in the creation of affordable housing. As home prices soared in the late 1990s and families found themselves priced out of the market, local agencies […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Don’t be surprised to see a slew of television ads touting a measure to legalize recreational marijuana use during the weeks leading up to the general election in November. A political action committee, the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, reserved more than $800,000 worth of advertising time slots […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt The New Placerville Courthouse Project has traveled a rocky and contentious road since a new court facility on the West Slope was first envisioned several decades ago. It just hit another bump. The approximately $1.4 billion reduction in state funding originally allocated in the budget for new courthouse construction in California has […]
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By Teri Sforza, Orange County Register Back in 2005, 1,841 retirees pulled down more than $100,000 a year in pension checks from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. A decade later, membership in the so-called $100K Club had swelled by nearly 20,000 souls. CalPERS data provided to the conservative-leaning group Transparent California, and analyzed by […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s no longer necessary to leave South Lake Tahoe to obtain a four-year college degree – and this has nothing to do with online education. Lake Tahoe Community College and Sierra Nevada College are partnering to offer a bachelor’s degree in global business management. “Over the last five years they are the […]
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By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times The offer was too tempting to refuse: Westlands Water District, the ethically challenged agency that often finds itself in the news for all the wrong reasons, invited me on an aerial tour of its watershed. From high above, I would be able to see the public works projects that have allowed the San […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada casino customers inched closer Thursday to being able to sign up for and fund a wagering account that could be used to gamble at slot machines, table games and bingo parlors. The concept of using wagering accounts is already in play for sports betting, mobile wagering and […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – On eight 4-2 votes, the Placer County Planning Commission on Thursday approved several items pertaining to the future of Squaw Valley. KSL, which has owned Squaw since 2010, wants do what former Squaw Valley Village owner Intrawest did not do; complete the four-phase project. But this would be on […]
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By Cassie Wilson, KRNV-TV Dry weather is common in Northern Nevada; we are of course a high desert. But as of Aug. 10, the Reno-Tahoe Airport officially hit a 79-day dry spell. In the last 10 years, the longest dry pattern we’ve seen was 92 days in the summer of 2011. And the current dry […]
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By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy News Service Delivering a big blow to backers of pot legalization, the Obama administration said Thursday that it would keep marijuana classified as one of the nation’s most dangerous drugs, similar to heroin and LSD. The long-awaited decision by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration keeps intact a 1970 law that lists marijuana […]
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