Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories Lake Tahoe News will be running leading up to the 50th anniversary of South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 30. By Kathryn Reed June 11, 1989, started out like any other Sunday in the basin – sunny, blue sky, uneventful. Before it was over South Lake […]
Read more
By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal The state’s offer to families was $5,000 per child. The promise: Nevada’s poor families would be afforded a new choice – private school. But only 7 percent of students applying for the money live in areas reporting low household income, while nearly a third of takers reside in the state’s […]
Read more
By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun On Nov. 17, the state Public Utilities Commission will hear testimony on whether Nevadans will see heftier bills from Southwest Gas. The commission will rule on a request made by the company in June to raise rates by an aggregate of $29.4 million, which it said was necessary to […]
Read more
By Anna Gorman, KQED-TV California risks losing billions in health care dollars if the state and federal governments can’t agree on a plan to fund reforms of the Medicaid program, hospital officials and experts said. Public hospitals throughout the state are counting on the $7.25 billion in state and federal funds to treat large numbers […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Land acquisition, bike paths and public access projects dominated the most recent quarterly meeting of the California Tahoe Conservancy. The old blue four-plex on the corner of Sawmill Road and Highway 50 in El Dorado County will be demolished in 2016 so the 1-acre parcel can be restored to […]
Read more
By Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times For the first time in about a decade, steady academic progress has halted for fourth- and eighth-grade students nationally and locally, according to new standardized test results released Wednesday. After years of small but steady increases in scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress since its first administration […]
Read more
By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Frank Treanor doesn’t have exit polling to help explain why almost 38 percent of voters in the fire district he leads north of San Francisco voted against a November 2012 ballot measure to increase what property owners pay the district annually. But Treanor, chief of the Rancho Adobe Fire Protection […]
Read more
By Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal RENO—For much of the past half century, Reno moved in lock step with its glamorous big sister, Las Vegas, their fortunes rising and falling with their mainstay industry, gambling. But Reno is now betting on a different economic future, turning its back on casino tourism as an economic driver […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed A group of residents disgruntled with how the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is working is attempting to recall all five elected officials. Today at their meeting in Placerville, Supervisors Sue Novasel and Michael Ranalli were served with the notice of intent for their recall. Supervisor Brian Veerkamp was not at […]
Read more
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The backcountry can be a great place to escape – except when it comes to politics. That’s especially true in western swing states such as Nevada and Colorado where political experts and special interest groups are already trying to galvanize allies and marginalize enemies for the 2016 campaign cycle. And when […]
Read more