By Christopher Cadelago and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Dawn and Nick LaPolla of Fair Oaks are solidly middle class, and they aren’t uninsured. Yet their required switch to a new health insurance plan under federal changes puts them at a financial crossroads. If they earn less than $94,200 a year, the family of four’s preferred […]
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By James Nash, Bloomberg Gov. Jerry Brown, who decries a widening gulf between rich and poor, is campaigning for a fourth and final term presiding over a state that’s outpacing the U.S. in producing millionaires and food-stamp recipients. The number of households with more than $1 million in assets gained 3.6 percent since the Democrat […]
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By Kathryn Reed It is never the work of one person to put a criminal behind bars; it often takes cooperation at many levels. The efforts of Michelle Rodriguez, assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California, has helped get a number of South Lake Tahoe’s notorious criminals off the streets for years. In […]
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By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times U.S. government forecasters say odds are increasing that El Niño, an ocean-warming pattern that alters weather across the globe, will develop later this year. Conditions in the eastern tropical Pacific have shifted enough that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday activated its alert system to issue an […]
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By Kira Terry, Las Vegas Review-Journal A Gallup Well-Being poll released last week shows Nevada among the top three states with the lowest obesity rates with an average of 21.1 percent obesity. Nevada comes in as the third lowest in the nation, falling just behind Colorado at 20.4 percent and Montana at 19.6 percent. Gallup […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Women helping and recognizing other women. That in large part is what Soroptimist International is all about. The two South Shore groups came together Thursday night to honor local high school students, women who have made a difference in the community, and to honor two women who despite struggles are […]
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By Diana Lambert and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Young teachers have become far more scarce in California classrooms after school districts slashed their budgets to survive the recession. From 2008 to 2013, California saw a 40 percent drop in teachers with less than six years’ experience, according to a Sacramento Bee review of state data. […]
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By Samantha Schaefer, Los Angeles Times The news of a Northern California couple’s discovery of more than 1,400 gold coins hidden on their property has experts, history buffs and regular folks speculating on the treasure’s origin. Though officials said it is unlikely the coins were stolen in a turn-of-the-century theft at the U.S. Mint in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Voters will have a slew of decisions to make in June during the primary election. The deadline to file for office for El Dorado County was March 7 at 5pm. That was the same for Placer County. However, for Placer the date is extended to March 12 if an incumbent has not […]
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By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times Americans use twice the amount of water they think they do, and appear to be particularly oblivious about how much H2O they flush down the toilet on a daily basis, according to new research. In a paper published online Monday in the journal PNAS, a researcher concluded that Americans […]
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