By Kathryn Reed Even though the funding for El Dorado County’s new public safety headquarters in Placerville has not been secured, the price has escalated by millions of dollars, all because of inaction by the chief administrative officer. Supervisor Shiva Frentzen wrote a letter to her colleagues and then read it into the record at […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County’s lone contested judicial race on the June 7 ballot is turning ugly, with the challenger accusing the incumbent of misleading the public about political contributions. Ashlee Titus, an attorney with a law firm out of Sacramento, on May 10 filed a complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission on […]
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By Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times Over the last few months, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators have reached major deals to increase taxes on healthcare plans and boost the state’s minimum wage. But as Brown prepares to release his revised budget on Friday, one big issue appears to be far from a resolution: California’s shoddy roads. […]
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By Michelle Rindels, AP An effort to repeal the state’s new commerce tax suffered a likely fatal setback on Wednesday after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled a petition that’s been circulating for several months isn’t fit for the ballot. Justices said in their order that the summary of the measure’s effect, which appears on the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Twenty-four students with seizures, nine with Type 1 diabetes, two with Type 2, 112 with asthma, 21 with cardiac conditions, 136 with food allergies and of those 45 require epi-pens. Those are some of the issues nurses in Lake Tahoe Unified School District are dealing with on a daily basis. They handle […]
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By Joan Lowy, AP Six states, including Nevada, that allow marijuana use legal tests to determine driving while impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation’s largest automobile club that calls for scrapping those laws. The study commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation said it’s not possible to […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP Alberta’s unusually early and large fire is just the latest of many gargantuan fires on an Earth that’s grown hotter with more extreme weather. Earlier this year, large wildfires hit spots on opposite ends of the world — Tasmania and Oklahoma-Kansas. Last year, Alaska and California pushed the U.S. to a […]
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By Kathryn Reed OLYMPIC VALLEY – Planners and landowners must balance recreation, economic development and protection of natural resources as they consider whether to allow the proposed gondola that would link Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts. Eight members of the public voiced their concerns Monday at the initial scoping meeting for the environmental […]
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By Ben Guarino, Washington Post Plants pervade almost every part of human life — not only do we eat them and wear them, we use plants for fuel, medicine, building materials, poisons and intoxicants. To limit the world’s plants to those that meet a human need, however, would be doing the leafy kingdom a disservice. In fact, according to […]
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By Matt Stevens and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown issued a sweeping executive order Monday that permanently prohibits certain forms of water waste and makes monthly water-use reporting an ongoing requirement. The order comes as some urban water suppliers have suggested the drought is over and called for the state’s drought rules […]
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