By Bruce Parker, Fox News The Small Business Administration is the federal agency that helps “little guy” businesses get loans they couldn’t get through traditional lenders. Or so the story goes. According to a 2014 federal oversight report from public research group American Transparency, taxpayer-backed SBA loans are popular with businesses serving “wealthy lifestyles.” Found […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun Talk of tax season is ripe in the Nevada Legislature, but the chatter has nothing to do with April 15. Gov. Brian Sandoval will lobby for his business license fee on Wednesday in the Senate’s revenue committee. The fee, an existing tax the Sandoval administration has reconfigured, would levy […]
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By Kathryn Reed Keep the airfield as it is while providing flexibility for other uses at the airport was the consensus Monday night of the nearly 60 people who attended a meeting about the Lake Tahoe Airport master plan. This was the third and final meeting before preferred alternatives are defined. Those will then be […]
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By Jackie Valley, Las Vegas Sun Humans have been using geothermal energy for more than 10,000 years, since American Paleo-Indians used hot springs for cooking, bathing and cleaning. But it wasn’t until 1904 that the first geothermal electric power plant was invented to generate electricity, when Italian scientist Piero Ginori Conti figured out how to […]
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By Julia Prodis Sulek, San Jose Mercury News TAHOE CITY — There’s something disconcerting about life at Lake Tahoe these days. It’s still winter, but visitors are renting bikes instead of snowshoes and kayaks instead of skis. Come summer — without last-ditch torrential rains — the lake level is expected to be at such a […]
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By Kathryn Reed An outdoor concert venue that isn’t a parking lot. A setting that embraces the natural environment. A site that could be used year-round. A place that would have limited impact to residents. It does exist in South Lake Tahoe. City officials are looking at the possibility of turning 12 acres at Lake […]
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By David Sharp, AP A real estate investment trust that’s considering getting out of the snow business could sell more than a dozen ski resorts from Maine to California that are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. CNL Lifestyle Properties owns 16 resorts including Northstar, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Sunday River and Sugarloaf in Maine, Bretton Woods, Loon […]
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By Ken Ritter, AP Cost and confusion can be obstacles to obtaining public records in Nevada, where reporters are sometimes quoted high fees for research, redaction and copying. Sure, the Silver State has open record and open meeting laws. But it might be unique in the U.S. for not defining what a public record actually […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Service above self is the philosophy of Rotarians worldwide. Tahoe Douglas Rotary took that mantra a step further on March 13 by honoring those who embody that philosophy on a daily basis. This was the first year the South Shore Rotary club honored first responders during the annual St. Patrick’s […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun The American Gaming Association is again using a major athletic event to draw attention to sports betting, this time estimating that Americans will wager upwards of $2 billion through more than 70 million brackets on this year’s March Madness college basketball tournament. The Washington, D.C.-based trade group for the […]
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