By Kathryn Reed On identical 4-1 votes Monday the South Lake Tahoe City Council ratified the city manager’s decision to ban Councilmember JoAnn Conner from interacting with staff and agreed to censure her. Conner was the dissenting vote on both measures. It took nearly 3½ hours to reach those conclusions Oct. 19. Some in the […]
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By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times The ash of the Rocky Fire was still hot when Gov. Jerry Brown strode to a bank of television cameras beside a blackened ridge and, flanked by firefighters, delivered a battle cry against climate change. The wilderness fire was “a real wake-up call” to reduce the carbon pollution […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Park brothers are going after the former management company of Lake Tahoe Hard Rock for damages, contending Warner Hospitality is responsible for cost overruns at the remodeled Stateline property and mismanagement. “In particular, Warner has failed to manage the property properly, resulting in customer dissatisfaction, bad publicity, employee turnover, and revenue […]
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By Kathryn Reed An eight-year veteran with the South Lake Tahoe Police Department died Oct. 17 in a single-vehicle rollover accident near Fallon. Officer Mark Hounsell, 42, was driving to their home in Minden when the Chevrolet Suburban for unknown reasons left the road and rolled several times. The accident occurred about 5pm, approximately 20 […]
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By Michelle Foster I learned three valuable lessons on my Tahoe Rim Trail through hike. 1. Always through-hike with a partner. 2. Field-test my gear before taking it on a multi-day hike. 3. Take the advice of seasoned explorers. Letti and I were 30 miles into our planned 165-mile through-hike around Lake Tahoe when we […]
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By Jennifer Kaplan, BloombergBusiness Shaun Gindi brought a duffel bag stuffed with 1,000 twenty-dollar bills to open a checking account at his local Chase branch. He was successful. Until the branch closed the account a week later. As the owner of two marijuana shops and a weed warehouse in Colorado, where the drug is legal, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Building cages for animals takes more than just putting up four walls. In some ways, the amount of infrastructure needed is the same as a house. The sites for the 12 cages on the 27-acre home of what will be Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care are equipped with water, sewer and a ton […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Arcade-style gambling machines with video game controllers attached to them. Casino games that play like “Pac-Man” or a first-person shooter, in which a player’s performance can materially influence the outcome. A hotel with space devoted to competitive video gaming, and a casino floor that highlights technology geared toward similar […]
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By Jeffrey J. Selingo, New York Times It’s the middle of October, and many college campuses nationwide are observing their traditional fall break with a few days off from classes. Even as the 21st Century economy demands more from college graduates and the price of a higher education skyrockets, today’s college students are spending less of […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau The South Tahoe Chamber of Commerce met Friday evening to allow JoAnn Conner, former chamber president and South Lake Tahoe city councilwoman, to tell her side of the story. Conner was banned last month from having interaction with city staff as a result of a list of allegations including verbal attacks on […]
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