By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Techno meets burlesque with a side of Cirque du Soliel. It’s not a good combination. “Sweet Talk: A Delicious Electro-Cirque Kiss” misses on nearly every mark. The redeeming aspect of the 70-minute show at MontBleu is that the athleticism is near Olympic caliber. This is because of the acrobatics. The […]
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By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times WEST SACRAMENTO — When the glass-sheathed headquarters of the California teachers’ pension fund opened five years ago, it was supposed to help anchor developments along the blighted riverfront on the capital’s outskirts. But as Jack Ehnes, the fund’s chief executive, looked out from a top-floor conference room on a […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on Wednesday unveiled a proposal to spend roughly $687 million to alleviate the impacts of California’s drought, including efforts to clean and recycle water, improve conservation, capture rain, and give emergency food and housing assistance to farmworkers who will be out of work because […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Bijou Community Park was formed in 1992 all the potential future amenities could not be imagined. A disc golf has been added. The dog park came in 2008. A roller derby league uses it as its home rink. The most recent addition was a dog agility course last year. However, only […]
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By Jennifer Liberto, CNN Money WASHINGTON — Americans dearly love getting their mail daily. But they can’t say what they’d miss if the U.S. Postal Service disappeared. “People seemed to sense that the Postal Service disappearing would be a bad thing, but they had trouble articulating more specifically how this would affect them personally,” the […]
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By AP KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — This one was for Sarah. Braid spinning in the chilly mountain air, Maddie Bowman of Meyers soared to the inaugural gold in women’s Olympic halfpipe skiing, edging Marie Martinod of France in the final on a night the sport paid tribute to late Canadian freestyle skiing icon Sarah Burke. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Funky, hodgepodge, outdated. Those are just some of the descriptions people use to describe the architecture along Harrison Avenue in South Lake Tahoe. And while it’s not a mandate that the 19 property owners spruce up their Highway 50 frontage buildings, some are in the planning stages to do just that. With […]
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By Tasneem Raja and Chris Mooney, Mother Jones It’s easy to find bad information about the safety of vaccines on the Internet. That’s, well, the Internet. But what’s scarier is that in many states, parents who buy into those myths can easily opt out of immunizing their children. In some cases, it’s no harder than […]
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By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News As he prepares to fill a surprise opening on the California Supreme Court, Gov. Jerry Brown’s track record of appointing judges strongly points toward a consistent theme — scouring the legal ranks for candidates with some intellectual firepower who might add diversity to the nation’s largest judiciary. Justice […]
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By Kathryn Reed Paid parking is going to remain in South Lake Tahoe – for now. But it’s going to look different than it did last summer. The South Lake Tahoe City Council on Feb. 18 had a two-part session – morning and evening – so the public could hear where the program is, learn […]
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