By Alison Vekshin, Bloomberg In a dim parlor furnished with red velvet couches and a stripper pole, Brooke Taylor is having a sale on herself. “I offer a lot more specials and discounts and incentives for people to come in to see me,” said Taylor, 32, a brunette prostitute in a short, green dress at […]
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By Kathryn Reed Depending on where you are in the Lake Tahoe Basin, more yellowjackets may be buzzing around compared to years past. “The vector techs are seeing more yellowjackets this season because the winter was more mild, which allows more queens to survive through the winter. Each queen trapped in the spring represents one […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post The vast majority of teachers and principals routinely see students that are “too hungry to learn,” according to a report released Tuesday by the No Kid Hungry organization. The organization, which works to end child hunger, surveyed more than 1,000 teachers and principals around the country for the report, according […]
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By Angela Chen, Wall Street Journal Something summery may be lingering even as the season fades — the summer cold. Colds in summertime can last for weeks, at times seemingly going away and then suddenly storming back with a vengeance, infectious-disease experts say. A winter cold, by contrast, is typically gone in a few days. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Unconventional. That’s exactly what the owner of Gunbarrel Tavern & Eatery wants to be. “We are here to give the finger to standard ideas about what a menu is supposed to be. We try to do things different … to not abide by anything you have to do,” Alex Cox said. Cox […]
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By Peter Andrey Smith, New York Times UNIONTOWN, Pa. — On a muggy Friday afternoon in a strip mall parking lot, as thunder echoed in the Alleghenies and cottonwood seeds floated on the breeze, Lee Stanish, 32, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Natalie Hull, 24, a lab manager, stepped out […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Standing on ridges miles away from the Rim Fire, John Buckley has traced the path of the huge Sierra Nevada blaze by watching fire clouds billowing above the Stanislaus National Forest. The view has been sobering. As the Rim blaze burns its way into the record books, Buckley thinks […]
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By Kathryn Reed What was going to be a protest during today’s El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is now expected to be more of an employee rally. This is because labor negotiations suddenly took a turn for the better on Monday. “We are cautiously optimistic we are going to be able to reach a […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Ending decades of bitter disputes over fragile Mono Lake, Los Angeles and conservationists on Friday announced an agreement to heal the environmental damage caused by diverting the lake’s eastern Sierra tributary streams into the city’s World War II-era aqueduct. The controversy over alkaline Mono Lake, which is famous for […]
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By Walter Hamilton, Los Angeles Times Baby boomers may have no one to care for them in their old age. Shifting demographics mean that aging boomers will have fewer friends and family members to take care of them as they get into their 80s, according to a new study by AARP. In other words, even […]
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