Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Bruce Grego Profession/work experience: Attorney/self-employed law practice. Age: 61 What organizations, committees […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee RENO — It seems hard to believe, in the afterglow of the Tesla jackpot, that Reno was an economic basket case just a few years ago, with even bigger problems than Sacramento. Yet even as unemployment soared and its casinos struggled during the recession, the “Biggest Little City in the […]
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By Nancy Scola, Washington Post Wednesday, forces aligned in favor of stronger net neutrality rules will rally under the banner of Internet Slowdown Day, the latest push to funnel the public’s attention to the Federal Communication Commission’s on-going rulemaking on open Internet principles and practices. First things first. Slowdown Day will not feature any actual […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – “To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.” — Chris Evert The youngsters on the court don’t know yet how true Evert’s words are. They […]
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By Lee Fang, Vice As Americans continue to embrace pot — as medicine and for recreational use — opponents are turning to a set of academic researchers to claim that policymakers should avoid relaxing restrictions around marijuana. It’s too dangerous, risky, and untested, they say. Just as drug company-funded research has become incredibly controversial in […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee The catastrophic collapse in real estate prices that started in 2007 left more than a legacy of mass foreclosures in the Sacramento region; it also left vast expanses of newly preserved open space in the Sierra Nevada that the public can use for recreation. Depressed land prices allowed private conservation […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Austin Sass Profession/work experience: Work experience: I am currently retired, but started […]
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By Ann Saphir, Reuters The gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation widened after the Great Recession, a survey by the Federal Reserve showed on Thursday, suggesting deepening U.S. income inequality. Though incomes of the highest-earners rose, none of the groups analyzed by the Fed had regained their 2007 income levels […]
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By Josh Mitchell, Wall Street Journal College graduates may be taking on historically high debt burdens to finance their educations. But it will take them far less time to get a return on that “investment” than it took their parents’ generation. That’s the conclusion of new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Champions. Lake Tahoe has quite a few. And soon they will be memorialized in South Lake Tahoe. Champions Plaza was an idea that came about after the Winter Olympics earlier this year because so many athletes from the basin competed in Russia. Work on this plot of land by Lakeview Commons is […]
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