By Kathryn Reed Plans are drawn, permits are being sought and the construction bid process is under way for what will be a memorial at Happy Homestead Cemetery for veterans and public safety. “We are trying to make it as good as Arlington or better,” cemetery manager Mike Warren told Lake Tahoe News. It will […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy. The bill’s passage over the weekend marks the first time Congress has approved nationally significant legislation backed by legalization advocates. […]
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By Associated Press Caesars Entertainment Corp. on Monday missed a $225 million interest payment it owes some of its creditors, giving the company 30 days to pay it or default. A company official said in a financial filing that the company wouldn’t pay the $225 million its debt-heavy operations division owes because it was still […]
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By Kathryn Reed With more than 300 bird species in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Scott Dietrich is on a quest to see as many as he can this year. Prior to the Dec. 15 Christmas bird count he was at 185. Armed with binoculars to scan Cove East, Dietrich was quick to find the bald […]
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By Dan Charles, NPR A government-appointed group of top nutrition experts, assigned to lay the scientific groundwork for a new version of the nation’s dietary guidelines, decided earlier this year to collect data on the environmental implication of different food choices. Congress now has slapped them down. Lawmakers attached a list of “congressional directives” to […]
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By Kelly Dinardo, New York Times Beads of sweat trickled down my back, forming an icy pool where my thermal top had ridden up. My heart, drumming a furious, hard-rock beat, accompanied the loud gasping of my breath. Reaching forward with one arm, I stabbed my pole into the snow-covered ground, slid the opposite leg […]
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By Kathryn Reed Despite a multi-year drought, the amount of groundwater in the basin is still more than what is extracted every year — at least for now. But overdrafting – the name for when more groundwater is used compared to what is replenished – is a problem in the Central Valley. When overdrafting occurs […]
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By Nicole Perlroth, New York Times Paul Kocher, one of the country’s leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world’s dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts. One shows the number of airplane deaths per miles flown, which decreased to one-thousandth of what it was in 1945 with the advent […]
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By New York Times For first-time skiers, expectations and reality can often diverge on the slopes. They imagine gracefully swishing down an Alpine mountain, but then spend their first day falling. After that, most give up. Indeed, according to the National Ski Areas Association, 83 percent of first-time skiers and snowboarders never return to the […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHOENIX – Mileage is not always the determining factor in how sore one will be after a hike. Terrain has a lot to do with achy muscles, too. Nine days ago I found out how true that statement is. Camelback Mountain is considered by some to be the toughest hike in the […]
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