By Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Forbes Aaron Mandell, founder and chairman of WaterFX, looks at California’s water issue like a classic entrepreneur. Where others see problems, he sees opportunity for improvement and profit. And that opportunity is huge. It is common knowledge that access to clean water is a mounting problem across the globe. However, few places […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – A park named after the Donner party should be visited in inclement weather. It’s the best way to get a feel for what the 81-member wagon train went through in the winter of 1846-47. While such weather has been scarce this winter, we ventured out in some last Saturday. Wind […]
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By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News These are the unlikely saviors in the lofty peaks of the serene Sierra: high-tech snow machines, roaring like jets and spewing million-dollar crystals. “If it wasn’t for snowmaking, we probably wouldn’t be open,” said Barrett Burghard, head snowmaker at Heavenly Mountain Resort, who is propping up the […]
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By Case Keefer, Las Vegas Sun The 49ers are channeling their namesake in Las Vegas. San Francisco is inciting a sports-book gold rush in the form of betting slips. Coach Jim Harbaugh’s squad was the most gambled-on team of the weekend in each of their first two playoff games as slight favorites against the Green […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Douglas County School District is considering partnering with Western Nevada College in an expanded dual credit program. High school students can take WNC classes now, but it has to be after school or in the evenings. The program the district is looking at would be during the regular school day, […]
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By Josh Richman and Mark Emmons, San Jose Mercury News STOCKTON — The graves of the children buried here long ago in the cold January ground are about a mile from Cleveland Elementary School. But except for the passing cars, chirping birds and the occasional freight train rumbling nearby, the resting place is mostly silent. […]
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By Josh Richman and Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO — Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday officially declared that California is in a drought emergency, as the state struggled with the lowest-levels of rainfall in its 153-year history, reservoirs were at low levels and firefighters remained on high alert. The governor asked Californians […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe residents are coping with less plastic – at least for now. Grocery stores in the city had to stop providing single-use plastic bags to customers starting Jan. 15 per an ordinance that was approved last fall. Other stores and restaurants in town must comply with the ordinance beginning Oct. […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee Saying El Dorado County is growing too fast and Highway 50 is getting jammed, a group of activists launched a drive Tuesday to qualify a November ballot measure that would slow growth while encouraging the county to work harder to bring jobs to the area. Petitioners hope to qualify their […]
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By Jack Gillum, AP WASHINGTON — Personal emails at the center of the brewing scandal for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie may have remained secret, had the public and press relied solely on the state’s open records law. Emails disclosed this past week show a top Christie aide asking the Port Authority of New York […]
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