By Kathryn Reed Father Grace is finally slowing down. He told Barton Memorial Hospital this month to no longer call him in an emergency. For decades the staff would call him at all hours of the night if a patient requested to see him or someone had a taken a turn for the worse. But […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review Journal STATELINE — Representatives of Nevada’s diverse collection of cities and counties don’t always find common ground, but the federal government’s control of so much of the state’s public lands struck a nerve at a summit here Friday. Officials representing rural counties, small cities and the biggest jurisdictions took […]
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By Liz Halloran, NPR When the Obama administration recently announced it wouldn’t challenge the decision by Colorado and Washington voters to fully legalize marijuana, criticism rained down. The administration’s position, complained one Colorado congressman, was tantamount to allowing states to opt out of the federal law banning pot possession, cultivation and sale. Other anti-legalization activists […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Make it look pretty and be functional were the overwhelming sentiments of people who want to make Meyers be more than it is today. Since the last meeting in February about the future of this South Shore enclave the advisory board has come up with a draft area plan for […]
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By Lauren Schuker Blum and Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal What attracts this generation of wealthy second-home buyers: ziplines, kids clubs and grilled cheese. For decades focused on golf, skiing or hunting, today’s master-planned resorts are being reimagined as fancy family camps, a trend that’s helping revive a number of struggling high-end second-home communities. Developers […]
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By Cy Ryan and Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The road to Nevada offering online poker to residents of other states is long and tortuous and gaming regulators took a step in that journey Wednesday when the state Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop meeting on a proposal for companies to offer progressive jackpots […]
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By Kathryn Reed For the first time in five years South Lake Tahoe’s budget is balanced without using reserves, cutting staff or cutting services. The $1 million ongoing deficit has been wiped off the books at least for the 2013-14 budget that will be presented to the City Council on Sept. 17. “It’s because we […]
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By Ryan Gabrielson, Center for Investigative Reporting California regulators routinely have conducted cursory and indifferent investigations into suspected violence and misconduct committed by hundreds of nursing assistants and in-home health aides – putting the elderly, sick and disabled at risk over the past decade. In 2009, the state Department of Public Health quietly ordered its […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun Firefighters and small businesses in Nevada and California have a simple request for the federal government. Pay up. They cleared brush, chopped down trees, and then submitted invoices in expectation that they’d be paid soon after. But that was more than two years ago, and they’re collectively still owed […]
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By Kathryn Reed Becoming an advocate for the disabled wasn’t something David Kelly aspired to be. There is not one defining moment that led him on this 30-plus year mission. “I saw what I thought was people being treated unfairly,” Kelly said. That was in South Lake Tahoe in the early 1980s. The 70-year-old has […]
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