By Jessica Calefati, Josh Richman and Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO — At first glance, it might seem that California lived up to its reputation for unmitigated liberalism in 2013. Gov. Jerry Brown signed bills to let illegal immigrants get driver’s licenses and practice law; raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Coordination and connectivity are two of the main items missing when it comes to recreation on the South Shore. People don’t know what’s available, where things are, how to find out about them and once they figure it out things are not linked together. An example is bike paths don’t lead to […]
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By Lauren Sommer, NPR The record-breaking wildfire in Yosemite National Park is almost fully contained, two months after it started. The blaze calls attention to a problem across the Western U.S. — after a century having its fires routinely extinguished, the forests are overloaded with fuel. A heated debate has flared up about what do […]
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Publisher’s note: Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D), Barbara Boxer (D) and Harry Reid (D) voted to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, Sen. Dean Heller (R) voted against it; Reps. Tom McClintock (R) and Mark Amodei (R) voted against it. By Toluse Olorunnipa, Kathleen Miller and Brian Wingfield, Bloomberg Gum Tong owns a […]
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By Kathryn Reed SPOONER SUMMIT – If you think Spooner Summit is busy now, you really would not have liked traveling this route more than a century ago. A dirt road and a railroad line were in this area in the late 1800s. This was a critical link between Placerville and Virginia City during the […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Water managers Monday urged Californians to step up their conservation efforts, warning that many parts of the state could face water shortages next year if this winter proves to be another dry one. Officials are not ready to declare a statewide drought. And managers of the Metropolitan Water District […]
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By Charles S. Johnson, Billings (Montana) Gazette Bob Anderson, chair of the Tahoe Area Sierra Club, died in a rollover accident Friday in Serengeti National Park in Tanzania, Africa. His wife, Grace, was injured in the accident but survived. They were among the passengers in a Land Rover that rolled over. Anderson was a leading […]
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By Kathryn Reed Advocates for banning plastic bags in South Lake Tahoe got a partial win Tuesday. While the ordinance for the ban was on the consent agenda as a second reading, it got pulled for discussion. Tim James, manager of the California Grocers Association, wanted time to explain how without putting a fee for […]
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By Bob Tita, Barron’s America’s road to recovery may face a costly detour due to a fraying transportation network. One in nine of the country’s 607,380 bridges are structurally deficient and 42% of the country’s major urban highways are congested, according to an American Society of Civil Engineers estimate, the result of years of inadequate […]
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By Ralph Vartabedian and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times California is spending nearly $15 million to build 10 hydrogen fueling stations, even though just 227 hydrogen-powered vehicles exist in the state today. It’s a hefty bet on the future, given that government officials have been trying for nine years, with little success, to get automakers […]
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