By Gary Richards, San Jose Mercury News If $4.26 for a gallon of gas seems painful, relax. The price at the pump in California is ever so slowly falling after four weeks of constant increases — and could drop as much as 40 to 50 cents by July 4. “They just started to ease. The […]
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Enough El Dorado County employees are so unhappy with their work environment it prompted the Board of Supervisors to launch an investigation. Non-equal employment opportunity violations will be looked into. Sixty-three percent of the staff participated in the cultural assessment survey conducted by Van Dermyden Maddux Law Corporation. Out of the 1,228 current and former […]
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By Kathryn Reed Does news matter? Yes. Do the media matter? Depends who you ask. Does where you get your news from matter? Depends who you ask. Do people still care about unbiased news? Not as much as they once did. ——— Today is World Press Freedom Day. The UN General Assembly designated May 3 […]
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By Tony Biasotti, Columbia Journalism Review It’s been a routine for generations of legal beat reporters: Every weekday afternoon, at courthouses across the United States, a reporter steps behind the records counter and thumbs through the lawsuits filed that day, looking for news. This custom is endangered, though, and not just because files have moved […]
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By Mike Gorrell, Salt Lake Tribune The CEOs of Park City Mountain Resort and Vail Resorts are engaging in a public war of words that parallels the high-profile lawsuit between the Park City-area ski giants. John Cumming from Powdr Corp., PCMR’s parent company, fired the latest shot Friday in response to two letters sent in […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Extreme is not necessarily the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of motor scooters. However, this weekend’s 320-mile Lake Tahoe T.T. Motor-Scooter Endurance Race may just change your opinion of scooting. Riders will set out from Motel 6 in South Lake Tahoe at 7:30am May 4 traveling east to […]
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By Blair Scott The two-mile, dirt road leading to the cabin transports me back to my carefree childhood. Every summer, for a long weekend, my family has driven up to Tahoe to relive the sweet, savory memories of past years. Winding through patches of dense pine trees and passing intermittent, bright green meadows, the familiar […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – Soft, dry soil. It makes measuring snow rather easy. There is none. The last snow survey of the season by the Department of Water Resources on May 1 turned up no snow at the field next to the entrance of Sierra-at-Tahoe and little snow at the other surveys. Statewide […]
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By Kathryn Reed VERDI – Owners of Boomtown casino have taken an aging property and revamped it a bit. The property off Interstate 80 on the outskirts of Reno turns 50 this year. M1 Gaming bought the 318-room hotel, and casino with 15 table games and 560 slot machines from Pinnacle Entertainment in June 2012 […]
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By George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Any struggling family knows that first you put food on the table, make sure there’s a roof overhead and lay in some daily essentials. Only then can you realistically think about paying down the credit card. True, you shouldn’t have run wild with the card in the first place. […]
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