By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Creating change is not always an easy undertaking – whether it’s personal or professional. But if it is to happen, it has to start with the individual. That was the overriding message Oct. 2 as more than 100 people attended a daylong retreat in Kings Beach. Women as Change […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Amid a drought that has created bone-dry conditions across much of California’s wildland area, a state fire prevention account has ended recent fiscal years with tens of millions of dollars unspent. The money has been generated by a contentious, 4-year-old fee pushed through by Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative Democrats […]
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By Associated Press WASHINGTON — Companies have posted a record number of job openings just when a diminished proportion of Americans are either working or looking for work. That combination ought to push up pay. Yet it hasn’t worked out that way, at least not yet. Wage growth actually dipped in September. The ongoing mystery […]
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By Kathryn Reed A lagoon that looks more like a mudflat became a wealth of scientific discovery for Tahoe Valley Elementary School students. “I learned how to keep water clean,” third-grader Sabrieo Parker said. She also learned that certain weeds could be bad for native fish. Students throughout Lake Tahoe Unified School District spent last […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times In the wake of national public anger over killings by police in New York, Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere, landmark California legislation to protect minorities from racial profiling and excessive force won Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature Saturday. At the same time, the governor issued a blunt warning against the proliferation […]
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By Abigail Carroll American eaters, they’re like a pack of animals, hustling dinner in 10 minutes or less. It sounds like a recent complaint, but in fact it comes from 1864, when the Englishman John Francis Campbell was startled at the rapidity with which fellow steamboat passengers consumed their meals as they floated down the […]
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By Susan Wood It may take as much dedication, stamina and love for the sport to run marathon operations as it does to compete in one. When athlete extraordinaire Julie Moss finished the marathon of the Ironman in Hawaii in 1982 by crawling, six-time champion Mark Allen was so moved, he married her. It was […]
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By Associated Press Plastic bag manufacturers filed a second ballot measure on Friday in California’s fight over a statewide plastic bag ban. The American Progressive Bag Alliance, which represents bag manufacturers, proposed an initiative that would require bag fees estimated at more than $400 million a year go into an environmental fund rather than be […]
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By Amy Harder, Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Environmental regulators significantly lowered a national limit for a smog-causing pollutant Thursday, in an attempted compromise that left some businesses relieved and environmental and health leaders upset the initiative wasn’t stronger. The Environmental Protection Agency set a limit of 70 parts per billion for ground-level ozone, which is created […]
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By Kathryn Reed Douglas County commissioners will be faced with three tax related issues at a special meeting next week. Sales and excise fuel taxes are likely to increase as well as the fee various utility companies pay. The county believes these tax increases will allow it to pursue state and federal dollars for projects […]
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