By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is […]
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By Sumathi Reddy, Wall Street Journal The growing interest in eating healthy can at times have unhealthy consequences. Some doctors and registered dietitians say they are increasingly seeing people whose desire to eat pure or “clean” food—from raw vegans to those who cut out multiple major food sources such as gluten, dairy and sugar—becomes an […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible many of the adults in the room were not smarter than a first-grader – at least on Friday. Pink volcanoes, bottles of unknown substances, melting candy and crayons. Rows of tables with trifold cardboard displays explain what all of this is about. “We wanted them to do science,” Shaina Lucas […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink The struggle between Squaw Valley Ski Holdings and Incorporate Olympic Valley over the future of the valley may be playing out publicly in newspaper ads and editorial pages, but behind the scenes another battle is brewing — one that involves hundreds of thousands of dollars, multiple attorneys and consultants, and a […]
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By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times A decade ago, many of California’s public pension plans had plenty of money to pay for workers’ retirements. All that has changed, according to a far-reaching package of data from the state controller. Taxpayers are now on the hook for billions of dollars more to cover the future retirements […]
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By Kathryn Reed The beach by Timber Cove Marina is not as public as some would like it to be and is too public for the hotel-pier owners. This stretch of sand in South Lake Tahoe is going to be the subject of discussion by the City Council when it meets Nov. 18 at 9am […]
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By Associated Press SACRAMENTO — As the U.S. and China — the world’s top two polluting nations — turn to implementing new rules aimed at curbing climate change, the countries can look to the most populous U.S. state as an example of the costs and challenges of fighting global warming. California already has imposed some […]
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By Associated Press The governors of California and Nevada met Thursday at a forum aimed at coming up with the best ways to cope with the unprecedented drought affecting the Western U.S., now in its third year. “I think the drought will test our imagination and our science, our technology and our political capacity to […]
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By Kathryn Reed The last time anyone saw the South Lake Tahoe Fire Department’s ladder truck it was on a flatbed headed east on Highway 50. This specialized piece of equipment that cost the city more than $1 million has never seen one day of service since it arrived in town at the beginning of […]
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By Kathryn Reed For those who say the military is no place for a woman, they have not met Bethany Brown, Poli Policarpio, Sheryll Valencia or Christina Frolich. These women on Nov. 13 shared with Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra some of their experiences. Brown is so dedicated that on Thursday she retook the Army […]
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