By Paul Elias, AP SAN FRANCISCO — If Gov. Jerry Brown wins re-election in November, he will be given an unprecedented opportunity to overhaul the California Supreme Court. Voters in 1987 rejected Brown’s first makeover when they removed Chief Justice Rose Bird and two other of his appointees from the high court because of their […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – The drought may be good and bad news for Lake Tahoe. Many reservoirs in California and Nevada are well below normal levels. Folsom Lake slip owners have until today to remove their boats because of the rapidly declining water level. Lahontan and Rye Patch reservoirs’ boat launches in Nevada […]
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By Adrienne Lu, Stateline.org State lawmakers who dream of dollar signs from legalized online gambling might want to pause for a moment to consider Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey. Last year, the three states became the first in the country to legalize Internet gaming. But as New Jersey Treasurer Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff told state lawmakers earlier […]
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By Yesenia Amaro, Las Vegas Review-Journal There’s a new group in Nevada, and its goal is to establish marriage equality in the state in 2016 or sooner. Freedom Nevada, a nonprofit coalition, this month formed a statewide 20-member advisory committee that includes lawmakers, attorneys, religious organizations and equal opportunity organizations, among others. “People have a […]
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By Kathryn Reed 1968 was not all about free love and feeling groovy. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were assassinated within two months of each other. Vietnam was raging. The country was polarized. Even though the Civil Rights Act was signed 50 years ago this summer, it did not mean equality was immediate […]
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By Josh Richman, San Jose Mercury News For the first time in seven years, more California voters say they’re financially better off compared to the previous year than not, a Field Poll finds. Forty-four percent of the state’s registered voters are feeling they’re doing better now than a year ago, while 28 percent say they’re […]
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By AP RENO — Lingering drought is taking a toll on wildlife across Northern Nevada, shrinking deer herds on the high desert, drying up fisheries in the valleys and starting to push everything from bears to snakes into urban neighborhoods they normally don’t frequent. Mule deer especially are showing signs of stress, and some fisheries […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – While El Dorado County doesn’t have plans for another Meyers Area Plan meeting before it goes before the Board of Supervisors, members of the Meyers Advisory Council are coordinating a get-together without agency involvement. That was the outcome of a three-hour meeting June 26 at the California Conservation Corps center. […]
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By Edmund Lee, Bloomberg The Internet is a set of pipes. It’s also a set of values. Whose? The people who consider it a great social equalizer, a playing field that has to be level? Or the ones who think of it as a marketplace subject to the laws of supply and demand? It’s a […]
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By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun Nearly a third of Nevada children are considered obese by the time they enter kindergarten, according to a recent UNLV report. Since 2008, the Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy has issued an annual report listing demographic and health information for some of the state’s youngest residents: incoming […]
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