By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee At first glance, the role interest groups play in crafting laws in California seems easy to spot. Unlike in many states, legislative analyses list “sponsors” for many bills, indicating that a lobbyist suggested – perhaps even wrote – and martialed forces for the measure. But a Bee review of sponsored […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Californians have paid tens of millions of dollars the past three years in state fees that had been scheduled to die – but never did. The Legislature routinely has adopted fees as temporary but quietly extended them as expiration dates neared. Nearly two of every three state fees scheduled to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Hover. Just hover. Go back. Lower, please. And then it was all over – and way too quickly. If only I had been able to commandeer the helicopter or shout commands. But the memory of flying over Emerald Bay and near Desolation Wilderness, that will last forever even if the 30-minute flight […]
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By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — Following state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s call for an investigation, federal authorities have taken disciplinary action against a Nevada hospital in an alleged case of “patient dumping” in California. In a letter dated Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave Nevada 10 […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Want to bring a sporting event to the South Shore? Then plan to make multiple calls to South Lake Tahoe, Douglas County, El Dorado County and Lake Tahoe Unified School District. And that’s just for starters. A permit from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is needed for many things. If […]
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By Luna Shyr, National Geographic News The first fatality in a Tough Mudder endurance event this past weekend raises a dire prospect that’s typically far from the minds of participants or buried in the fine print of contracts. Such extreme activities, with names like Rugged Maniac and Warrior Dash, have surged in popularity. Their novelty […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau KIRKWOOD – When Vail Resorts bought Kirkwood in April 2012, the company did not get all of Kirkwood. What the Colorado-based company bought were the rights to run the actual ski resort, the associated restaurants and retail, and the overnight lodging. Kirkwood Mountain Development retained all real estate development rights. What this […]
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By Nate Schweber, New York Times PYRAMID LAKE — For most fishermen a 20-pound trout is a trophy, but for Paiute tribe members and fish biologists here the one Matt Ceccarelli caught was a victory. That Lahontan cutthroat trout he caught last year, a remnant of a strain that is possibly the largest native trout […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a few stories about construction planned for the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. By Kathryn Reed Inadequate bids are forcing the state streets water project in South Lake Tahoe to be delayed for what will probably be at least until 2014. While it’s possible the South Tahoe Public Utility […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College officials have one week to come up with ideas that would satisfy the state Senate Committee on Education’s concerns regarding the college’s quest to allow some Nevada students to pay tuition at California rates. The first hearing before the senate committee was April 24, with a return trip […]
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