By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — As America’s road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car. The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Knee injuries aren’t the only thing skiers and snowboarders need to worry about. Orthopedists in Lake Tahoe see a number of dislocated shoulders, too. Kyle Swanson, a doctor with Tahoe Orthopedics & Sports Medicine, went over the various shoulder injuries and treatments during a lecture Oct. 23 at Kahle Community […]
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By Lois M. Collins, Deseret News Parents who want their teens to do better in school might want to send them outside to play hard for a bit. Research from the United Kingdom indicates that moderate to vigorous exercise helps teens academically. And it’s especially good at helping girls do better in science. The study […]
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By Laura Stevens, Wall Street Journal ATLANTA — FedEx Corp. expects to ship a record 22 million packages on Dec. 2, known as Cyber-Monday, which would make it the first time ever it has been the busiest shopping day of the holiday season. The total number of packages that day would be an 11 percent […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARMEL – Tails smacking the water, backs breaking the surface and water spewing from the blowhole. It’s an unusual sight in early October to see humpback whales breaching off Point Lobos. About a half dozen of these creatures were a few hundred yards from shore. A volunteer with the state preserve says […]
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By Vanessa Wong, Bloomberg Maybe canned foods remind us of school lunches. Or power outages. Or Y2K paranoia. Or cuisine from the ’50s. Perhaps it’s concern about BPA. Maybe the home canning trend keeps consumers from the supermarket. Because sales of preserved foods in the U.S. are fading. Except during the recession, when consumers sought […]
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By Jason Dearen, AP SAN FRANCISCO — Federal wildlife officials on Friday proposed to list as threatened populations of greater sage grouse in Nevada and California in an effort to save the struggling species, a decision that promises to pose new challenges for ranching and energy development in the West. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Who was that?” “That’s one of my kids,” Joy Rothschild would say. Biologically she didn’t have any children. But Rothschild had a bond with so many Lake Tahoe Unified students through being an aide in the schools, working to get those who in some manner were homeless to have a more stable […]
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By Eliza Barclay, NPR Five years ago, a landmark report excoriated the animal agriculture industry’s practices and laid out a roadmap for how it could do better. But in the years since, the problems are just as bad — and maybe even worse. That’s the conclusion of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. […]
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Legendary South Shore musician Ron Rose died Oct. 22. He was 83. Born Rupert Ronald Rose on June 18, 1930, in Warren, Ohio, he began playing piano at age 4. Jazz was hot and Ron took to it quickly. Before ever learning to read music, young Ron became an expert at his trade. In his […]
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