By Julia Lurie, Mother Jones Bottled-water drinkers, we have a problem: There’s a good chance that your water comes from California, a state experiencing the third-driest year on record. The details of where and how bottling companies get their water are often quite murky, but generally speaking, bottled water falls into two categories. The first […]
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg For more than 70 years, Fred Starrh’s family was among the most prominent cotton growers in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Then shifting global markets and rising water prices told him that wouldn’t work anymore. So he replaced most of the cotton plants on his farm near Shafter, 120 miles northwest of […]
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By Kathryn Reed There is one less hotel in South Lake Tahoe renting by the week or month. The Vagabond Inn on Highway 50 is now the Trailhead – A Lake Tahoe Lodge. Owners from China took over at the first of the year, having paid $1.3 million for the property that is walking distance […]
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By Brad Plumer, Vox The next time you find yourself in a casino, pause for a second to appreciate the architecture. Casinos put an enormous amount of thought into their designs. The layout of the tables, the patterns on the carpet, the lighting — they’re all explicitly engineered to make gambling more seductive and get […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Online gaming remains a divisive issue for Nevada casino companies, which are pouring money into lobbying on the issue while they joust over a potential ban. The proposed ban, contained in a measure championed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has helped trigger hundreds of […]
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By Kathryn Reed GLENBROOK – While normally it’s the natural beauty that is so captivating when paddling on Lake Tahoe, last weekend was a bit of an architectural tour. What I didn’t know until last Sunday is that Lake Tahoe has dinosaurs. There are two of them calling a stretch of beach between Cave Rock […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — Consumer spending in Nevada rose to its highest level in five years in 2012 but continued to lag far behind the national average, according to a report released Thursday showing a wide discrepancy in economic recovery from the recession across the country. Personal consumption expenditures jumped 28 percent in […]
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By Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times Seeking to balance the state’s water needs with his reputation for fiscal caution, Gov. Jerry Brown called for a “no-frills, no pork” $6-billion water bond in an email to campaign supporters Tuesday afternoon. Brown kicked off the letter by noting that “drought conditions in California grow more serious by […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe Public Utility District is facing unexpected multimillion-dollar equipment expenses. Two of the three aeration units at the sewer plant need to be replaced. When the PVC pipe started to require multiple repairs the material was sent out to be investigated to see why it was failing. The plastic and couplers […]
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Publisher’s note: Erline Christopherson, the first woman to complete a length-wise swim of Lake Tahoe, will talk about her experience Aug. 20 at 6pm at the South Lake Tahoe Library. By Erline Christopherson As a young child, I always wanted to be in the water and by age 4 I could swim. As soon as […]
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