By Kathryn Reed If the South Lake Tahoe City Council rescinds the paid parking ordinance, the Tahoe 4 Tahoe group is likely to back off from going forward with its initiative. While much of the Feb. 4 council meeting centered on the paid parking controversy, the discussion did not end there. That night Bruce Grego, […]
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By Jocelyn Wiener and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee In recent years, Dr. Jason Bynum has seen the churn: teens in crisis cycling through his south Sacramento psychiatric hospital, admitted, released, and just a few months down the road, back with another breakdown. Increasingly, he lives with a deathly fear that his young patients are going […]
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By Eric Hoover, Chronicle of Higher Education Demographic projections have inspired doomsayers and daydreamers alike. The sky-is-falling contingent says the declining number of white, affluent high-school graduates will sink many tuition-dependent colleges. Meanwhile, optimistic observers predict that population shifts will compel institutions to transform themselves by embracing underrepresented students like never before. As any admissions […]
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By Kathryn Reed Comedy is more than making people laugh. It’s also about getting people to think and perhaps letting them forget about their life for an hour or two at a time. Budd Friedman didn’t seek out to be the master of comedy. But now with 23 Improv clubs across the nation, that is […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review Journal FALLON — Nevada’s severe drought is a tragedy unfolding in slow motion. But its effects will be far reaching — from rural communities that depend on ranching and agriculture for their existence to the prices we all pay for food at the grocery store. Nevada’s wildlife will suffer […]
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By Carmen George, Fresno Bee Firefighters are bracing for a hot year as California’s drought has forests primed for early wildfires. CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant said firefighters already have responded to over 400 wildfires statewide this year. By comparison, there were no wildfires in the first 3 1/2 weeks of last year, he said. “The […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau The name Teter is synonymous with snowboarding. Though Elijah Teter’s name may not be on the competitors’ roster for the most recent halfpipe competition and you haven’t seen him stand on a podium lately, he is likely standing not too far away. Teter, who used to live in Meyers, spent a decade […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s casino industry cracked the $11 billion gaming revenue figure during 2013, the first time the benchmark had been reached since 2008. The Gaming Control Board released the state’s calendar year-end and December gaming revenue totals Friday. Statewide, casinos collected $11.14 billion during 2013, a 2.6 percent increase over […]
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By Brett Prettyman, Salt Lake Tribune For a few minutes after the splash, Jana LeVitre hoped she could get her camera back from the bottom of the amazingly clear waters of Lake Tahoe. The Pentax camera was, after all, waterproof. But when somebody on the sailboat told her the water below was 150 to 200 […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe’s clarity is stabilizing and improving, but it is hard to tell just by walking along the shore. That’s because all of the attention has been placed on what is going on in the middle of the lake and not at the edge of the lake. But now the focus is […]
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