By John Myers, Los Angeles Times Call it a dream for California political consultants, a nightmare for voters or an electoral extravaganza: The November 2016 ballot could feature a bigger crop of statewide propositions than at any time in the past decade. “The voters pamphlet is going to look like the Encyclopaedia Brittanica,” said Steve […]
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By Rory Carroll, Guardian The doors clang shut, casting the laboratory into gloom, and the scientists don goggles, yellow helmets and flame-resistant jackets. Two crouch behind computers, readying measurements. Another picks up a blowtorch. The rest stand back. Wood shavings and dry chaparral, which resembles hay, line the bed of a 30ft wind tunnel. Green […]
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By Kathryn Reed “History is what binds us.” That was just one of the sentiments expressed by South Lake Tahoe Mayor Hal Cole on Saturday night as more than 200 people came together to celebrate the city’s 50th birthday. It was on Nov. 30, 1965, that South Lake Tahoe became an incorporated city. The milestones […]
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“Old Long Skiis” is now making first tracks with his dog Clarity in a secret powder bowl high above Meiss Meadow. Robert Porter Rockwell Jr. died Nov. 3, 2015. He was 61. Bob was born in San Jose to Mona and Robert P. Rockwell Sr. on Dec. 29, 1953. The family moved to South Lake […]
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By Cindy Chang, Marisa Gerber and Ben Poston, Los Angeles Times Semisi Sina has kept sheriff’s deputies busy in the last year. The 30-year-old has stolen bicycles from his Hacienda Heights neighborhood. He has skipped out on drug treatment and kept up his meth habit. He has racked up 16 arrests, earning himself a place […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Correct the problems and identify opportunities. Those are the oversimplified tasks the consultants for Lake Tahoe Hard Rock have agreed to tackle. “Right now we are working to stabilize the operation,” Jim Roets told Lake Tahoe News. Roets and Rick Stevens, two veterans in the Northern Nevada casino industry, have […]
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By Kathryn Reed In two weeks the Tahoe Women’s Community Fund has raised $20,000 to be invested on the South Shore and has signed up 125 members. This nonprofit entity was launched last month with the goal of securing money from members that will then be doled out to entities roughly from Glenbrook to Meyers […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College has placed the men’s soccer coach on paid administrative leave. Ben Wade was escorted off campus on Nov. 5 after a meeting with the director of human resources and dean of students. “There is absolutely no cause to let me go at this time in the season,” Wade […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jeremy Meyers, El Dorado County superintendent of schools, was arrested Nov. 5 on charges of driving under the influence. This is the second time in five months that the 45-year-old has been arrested on these same charges by the California Highway Patrol. Both times were in the middle of a workday. He […]
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By Neal Morton, Las Vegas Review-Journal A formidable list of who’s who in Nevada education circles soon will start meeting with state lawmakers and business leaders in an attempt to solve the chronic shortage of public school teachers in the Silver State. Starting in January, more than three dozen officials from the state’s largest school districts, […]
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