By Garrett Epps, Atlantic The most important fact about Monday’s oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is that this case—one of the most important of the term—will be decided on the basis of no facts at all. The petitioners in Friedrichs are asking the Court to hobble unions […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt PLACERVILLE – “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon,” El Dorado County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Mikulaco told those assembled in the board chambers Jan. 12 for updated presentations by representatives of the El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation Districts, Eldorado National Forest and the CalFire Amador-El Dorado Unit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jim Nichols is no longer at the helm of Douglas County. He has been out on paid leave since Jan. 12 and it goes through Jan. 29. After that time he will no longer be affiliated with the county. “It was a mutual agreement,” Commissioner Nancy McDermid told Lake Tahoe News. “We […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times For the last several months, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have sounded a lot more like salesmen than bureaucrats. And their sales pitch for flood insurance — which harps on the dangers of El Niño while espousing the benefits of protecting your property — has largely worked. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Luxurious, high-end housing on the shores of Lake Tahoe designed to be second or third homes for the wealthy – presumably from the Bay Area – is set to break ground in summer 2016. The project isn’t new. It’s been stalled because of the economy and the inability of the developers to […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Now that 2016 has gotten off to a wet start, with a series of El Niño storms drenching California in recent days, the question is turning up with increasing frequency at dinner parties and coffee shops: “How will we know when the drought is over?” The answer, water […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal Many U.S. residents are apparently considering a move to Nevada to be, well, a nice move. A survey by national moving company United Van Lines found that the Silver State is the second most popular destination in the Western United States for folks moving to a new area. Only Oregon […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – “The threat of climate change is not from what we have done in the past, but what we do in the future.” Those are the words of Ken Caldeira, the keynote speaker at last week’s annual Operation Sierra Storm conference, a gathering of television meteorologists hosted by Lake Tahoe Visitors […]
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By Lisa Leff, AP Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even the record sum proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown is unlikely to reverse the state’s standing as a comparative miser when it comes to investing in public schools, advocates and education officials said. […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek When the Federal Highway Administration needed to update it’s crucial and complicated 30-year-old formula for fuel consumption and vehicle operating cost predictions, it awarded the project to UNR’s renowned Pavements/Materials Program. The results of the study will give federal highway managers more accurate data as they seek to improve the nation’s transportation […]
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