By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times A federal report looking at trends in population growth, travel patterns and land use and their impact on the environment is predictably sobering. With the U.S. population expected to grow 42 percent from 2010 to 2050, the report from the federal Environmental Protection Agency offers a glimpse into the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gerri Grego has all the paperwork filled out with the state and is ready to start campaigning for a race voters won’t go to the polls for until a year from now. The South Lake Tahoe resident wants to be the next El Dorado County supervisor who represents the basin in Placerville. […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Gun sales boomed across California to record levels last year as horrific mass shootings reignited the gun control debate, new state figures show. A growing number of Sacramento-area gun dealers – about 200 and counting – sold a total of 74,000 firearms in 2012, roughly 20,000 more than in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tennis is mostly a seasonal sport at Lake Tahoe because the lone indoor court is at Ridge Tahoe, which requires owning a time share there or being a guest to use that court at the top of Kingsbury Grade. But the lack of indoor courts isn’t because of lack of interest. Depending […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency on Monday won a partial decision in federal court when the judge dismissed some of the claims against the bi-state regulatory agency. “The litigation is still pending, but this answers a lot of questions TRPA raised at the start,” TRPA spokesman Jeff Cowen told Lake Tahoe News. […]
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By Kathryn Reed While everyone touts there only being one island in Lake Tahoe, four of us say not so fast. What about that sandbar of sorts between Trout Creek and the mouth of the Upper Truckee River that is home to a flock of geese? “It’s a natural part of Lake Tahoe’s sedimentation and […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun Legislation, as Sen. Harry Reid often says, is the art of compromise. But lately, Reid has not been in a compromising mood. “Who would I negotiate with?” Reid said last week when asked about his recently expressed reticence to parley with Republicans over how to keep student loan rates […]
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By Tom Jacobs, Salon Are you uncomfortable with ambiguity? It’s a common condition, but a highly problematic one. The compulsion to quell that unease can inspire snap judgments, rigid thinking, and bad decision-making. Fortunately, new research suggests a simple anecdote for this affliction: Read more literary fiction. A trio of University of Toronto scholars, led […]
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By Evan Williams SACRAMENTO – The announcements, introductions and instructions have been dispensed with. You wait patiently at your table and the sound of faintly tinkling glassware grows louder as carts laden with wine glasses, each filled with 2 ounces and labeled with a numerical code, begin to parade into the hall. The glasses are […]
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By Don Thompson, AP SACRAMENTO — State regulators imposed a record $11 million fine Thursday on the operators of a renegade gold mine in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. Owners of the Big Cut Mine south of Placerville previously ignored more than $1 million in fines from the state Mining and Geology Board, and […]
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