By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post ROTTERDAM — In this traffic-packed Dutch city, electric cars jostle for space at charging stations. The oldest exhaust-spewing vehicles will soon be banned from the city center. Thanks to generous tax incentives, the share of electric vehicles has grown faster in the Netherlands than in nearly any other country in […]
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By Guy Kovner, Santa Rosa Press Democrat As California prepares to bring in the $1 billion medical marijuana industry from the legal shadows, growers and marketers on the pot-rich North Coast are waiting to see how much the massive regulatory structure will cost them and whether to stick instead with the prosperous but risky outlaw status […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jeremy Meyers, the disgraced former superintendent of El Dorado County Office of Education, is receiving more than seven months worth of severance – aka taxpayer money. The attorney for the district, David Girard, did not return multiple calls or an email asking how this is not a gift of public funds. Lake […]
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By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness The drought relief for California widely expected from El Nino in early 2016 will be far more effective if a chill descends soon — ideally with a bit of snow. “If we can get some snow on the ground and some cold nights, it will set up the snowpack and […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – The pile of dirt at the end of Spooner Summit in Carson City never seems to change. Grown men in what look like life-size Tonka trucks move it around, and yet, it still seems to stay the same. For 16 hours a day, six days a week, dirt moves […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A state panel Friday finalized short-term and long-range recommendations for dealing with drought, from requiring meters on all water outlets in Nevada to stepping up drought monitoring and conservation efforts. The recommendations to be delivered to Gov. Brian Sandoval from the Nevada Drought Forum are a starting […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Nevada gaming officials put in place sweeping new regulations for nightclubs last week, increasing their oversight of a crucial but sometimes risky component of business at casino-resorts. Under the set of rules adopted by the Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday, casino operators must make at least one employee in […]
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By Anne Knowles The restoration of Alpine County’s Hope Valley meadow has been a long time coming. Within a year, work to restore a 400-acre portion of the 1,600-acre meadow, which includes three miles of the West Fork Carson River, should be complete. That project, which is just the start of a long-term healing process, […]
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By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times If Californians — indeed, all Americans — had a thoughtful, consistent approach to gaming, daily fantasy sports sites such as FanDuel and DraftKings would be treated as gambling and their sponsors regulated and taxed. They’d be subjected to government oversight, background checks of employees, audits of their books and […]
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By Kathryn Reed It pays to shop local. To keep sales tax dollars in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee areas groups are making it potentially profitable to not leave the hill to shop. This is the inaugural year for Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce’s shop local campaign, while the North Shore-Truckee area […]
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