By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The devastating Rim Fire around Yosemite National Park has now rekindled a fierce fight over salvage logging. Some want to speed commercial removal of the wrecked timber left behind by the fire that has burned over 257,000 Sierra Nevada acres since mid-August. Others caution about the consequences […]
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By Kathryn Reed Drug use and abuse is nothing new in South Lake Tahoe. But there is a group in town that believes the status quo must go. The South Tahoe Drug Free Coalition secured a $150,000 federal grant for each of the next five years. The money will primarily go toward education and prevention. […]
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By UPI WASHINGTON — Despite U.S. women’s advancements, substantial inequalities remain with men, but disparities for women also exist among states, a nonprofit group says. A report by the Center for American Progress analyzed multiple factors — 36 factors overall — involving women. For example, women in Vermont make on average close to 85 cents […]
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By Mark Memmott, NPR Declaring that “human influence on the climate system is clear,” a U.N.-assembled panel of scientists reported Friday that “it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which brings together hundreds of researchers from […]
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By Kathryn Reed Nationally ranked wrestler in high school. Green belt in martial arts. World traveler. Accomplished artist. Motivational speaker. This is a great resume – and one that is similar to many people’s. What makes Brett Eastburn different, a word he probably would not use, is that he has no arms or legs. The […]
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By J.D. Harrison, Washington Post Four months after the Senate approved a controversial bill requiring online merchants to start collecting sales tax, a pair of lawmakers have opened the debate in the House, but with one major change from the original legislation — no exemption for small businesses. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., […]
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By Tim Hearden, Capital Press SACRAMENTO — A judge’s recent preliminary ruling that California water rights fees are invalid has piqued the interest of a group suing the state over fees charged to rural landowners for fire prevention. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei agreed with petitioners that fees charged by the State Water […]
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By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Experimental forests that have been groomed to slow wildfires could reduce the frequency of catastrophic fires in the future, researchers say. The decade-long project to slow and contain forest fires could become a blueprint for fire management across California. The project, which was developed in an experimental forest at UC Berkeley’s […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times TUOLUMNE — Tourists stopped at the Rim of the World overlook on California 120 earlier this month to take photos of the panoramic view — just as they always have. But they stared in silence at the ashen hues of a landscape swept by the largest wildfire to burn […]
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By Virginia Harrison, CNN Money The “Made in America” revival is gaining momentum with a majority of manufacturing executives now ready to consider pulling some production back from China. A new survey published Tuesday showed a big jump in recent months in the number of companies considering “re-shoring” production from China, once favored for its […]
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