By Denise Upton There’s a threat looming out there. A threat to our wildlife we are supposed to be living in harmony with. Many of us are unaware of this threat. Here’s the scenario: We’re sitting in our living room and “something” catches our eye running across the floor. Did we really just see something? […]
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By Jim Christie and Sharon Bernstein, Reuters Gov. Jerry Brown continued his message of fiscal restraint in his state budget plan, which would increase funding for education but not restore many recession-era cuts, including healthcare services for the poor. Brown’s plan, which was leaked Wednesday night and posted online, proposes spending $106.8 billion from the […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – A Crystal Bay company has been contracted to come up with two development proposals for the South Shore. One was met with trepidation, a bit of suspicion and some optimism Wednesday. The other the co-founder and principal of One Globe didn’t want out in the public. The first involves Meyers, […]
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By Noam N. Levey, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The relentless rise in healthcare spending — which had threatened government budgets and helped pave the way for President Obama’s health law — continued to moderate in 2012, the fourth year of a historic slowdown, newly released federal data show. Overall spending on healthcare rose less […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The California Department of Water Resources is planning to draft an emergency drought declaration for Gov. Jerry Brown’s consideration as dry winter conditions continue. DWR Director Mark Cowin told the California Board of Food and Agriculture at a meeting Tuesday that his agency is weighing whether to present the governor […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on a 3-0 vote Tuesday repealed the sex offender ordinance that was created with Phillip Garrido in mind. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were sentenced in 2011 to spend the rest of their lives behind bars for the 1991 kidnapping of then 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard […]
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By Kathryn Reed While there have been no deaths this season in the Lake Tahoe Basin from the flu, that is not the same case for bordering counties. A woman in her 30s and a man in his 50s died last weekend in Sacramento County from the H1N1 flu strain. This is the same strain […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters SACRAMENTO — A top California lawmaker on Tuesday is expected to unveil a proposal to fund free public preschool for all children in the most populous state. The plan by Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to offer a pre-kindergarten program to 4-year-olds comes as he and other Democratic legislators try […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fireworks at Lake Tahoe may come down to tourism vs. the environment. There is no question the twice annual fireworks show shot from barges on Lake Tahoe on the South Shore are a crowd pleaser on July 4 and Labor Day weekend. But the piles of debris collected afterward and the perchlorate […]
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By Nick Leiber, Bloomberg Actor Woody Harrelson is known for his roles in such films as “White Men Can’t Jump,” “Natural Born Killers” and “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” He’s also an environmentalist who in 1998 co-founded Prairie Paper Ventures to make paper from crop waste instead of trees. The idea is to save forests […]
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