By Kathryn Reed The bulk of the buildings on the 164-acre campus of Lake Tahoe Community College have been funded by the state of California. But that might change next year. For more than a year college board members have been discussing the possibility of asking local voters to pass a general obligation bond that […]
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By Jakob Schiller, Powder The first time I went to my local ski area last year — Sipapu Ski and Summer Resort in northern New Mexico — there was one run open and almost all the snow was man-made. To any bird flying over it must have been quite a scene: a mostly brown hill […]
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By Julie Bykowicz, Bloomberg As President Obama began his first term in January 2009, an Arizona Indian tribe saw a long-awaited opportunity to jumpstart a plan to build a 225,000-square-foot casino not far from the Cardinals’ football stadium. Five years earlier, through a special company, the Tohono O’odham Nation purchased land outside Phoenix, 160 miles […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two doctors with different approaches to low pain spelled out options for people last week during a lecture at Lake Tahoe Community College. Michael Fry and Peter Costa are part of Barton Health’s team. Fry is an orthopedic surgeon focusing on the spine and sports medicine. Costa is a physiatrist, specializing in […]
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By Ed Komenda, Las Vegas Sun Call it the year of movie-themed moneymakers. Gambling insiders expect this year’s Global Gaming Expo to be light on breakthroughs but heavy on pop culture. The convention’s most-anticipated games this year center around popular movies and pop stars of the last century. And while the subjects are wildly popular, […]
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By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Each afternoon the fire’s thunderous plume rose. At night, helicopter crews at the Crane Flat lookout watched a line of orange burning across the horizon. The line kept drawing closer. By the last week of August, every effort to halt the Rim fire before it […]
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By Kathryn Reed Anyone who has tried to grow produce in the Lake Tahoe Basin has at least one story of failure to tell. But if gardening advocates have their way, more positive stories are about to be told. “The whole purpose is to teach how to grow in an alpine environment,” Gerri Grego told […]
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By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — In response to fires that have ravaged the West this year, the House on Friday approved a bill that would expand logging in national forests despite a White House veto threat. The measure, which would impose limits on environmental reviews to speed timber-cutting projects, was approved by […]
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By Alana Semuels, New York Times In a packed pub in midtown Manhattan, Ryan Flagherty is surrounded on three sides by people clamoring for his attention. He spins one way and pours a shot of vodka into a glass, then turns around and wedges a lime into a bottle of Corona, pushing it across the […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Piece-by-piece agencies in the basin are putting together a comprehensive bike trail system with the goal of eventually being able to ride a bike around Lake Tahoe on something other than a state highway. At this month’s California Tahoe Conservancy meeting the board awarded $500,000 to the Tahoe City […]
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