By AutoWeek George Whittell Jr. was the scion of an immense gilded age fortune, amassed by his grandfathers through banking, transportation, real estate and utility ownership in San Francisco, then consolidated by the marriage of his parents in 1879. He grew up in a mansion on Nob Hill, the toniest address in the city at […]
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By Kathryn Reed “I think the military is one of the proudest things this nation has. It did more for me than I did for it.” Those are the words of Ray Goodenough. He is one of six veterans living at Barton’s Skilled Nursing Facility who was honored Nov. 10 – an early Veterans Day […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle As Hollywood rolls out a blockbuster drama about the 19 firefighters killed after crawling inside their protective emergency shelters during a raging 2013 wildfire, the federal government is wrapping up a real-life bid to improve the nation’s standard-issue fire shelter — by going space-age. Much of the redesign […]
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By Kaleigh Rogers, Motherboard From guzzling water to pesticide pollution, it’s been long established that growing weed—legally or not—isn’t great for the environment. But a recent study published in the journal “Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment” shows that, at least by some measures, it can be even worse for the environment than logging. By […]
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By Kathryn Reed From 1,400 vacation rentals to zero is what a group of South Lake Tahoe residents would like to see happen. Dan Browne and Ken Weitzman are the two who have signed the paperwork to bring the initiative to the ballot in November 2018. Peggy Bourland, they both said, is the other key […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada officials have terminated a privately-funded agreement that’s kept hundreds of free-range horses from western Nevada’s Virginia Range without resorting to slaughter. The agreement provided a framework for state officials to work with a nonprofit to control the horse population through capture, adoption and birth control drugs. Controlling the […]
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By Mike Householder, AP ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A rare bird has landed at the University of Michigan: a two-legged robot named Cassie that researchers hope could be the forerunner of a machine that one day will aid search-and-rescue efforts. Cassie — whose name is derived from the cassowary, a flightless bird similar to an […]
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By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply Most Americans may not realize it, but we really don’t know with a lot of accuracy how much snow there is sitting in the mountains during winter. We also don’t always have a precise picture of where the snow level is when a storm moves in, or how much will […]
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By Susan Wood After hearing a high-level power struggle among Barton Health executives, an El Dorado County Superior Court jury on Wednesday awarded former Chief Financial Officer Steve Neff with almost $800,000. Neff’s lawsuit involved a violation of labor law, fraud and breach of contract. The Nov. 8 judgment in favor of Neff includes $715,782.50 […]
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By Matt Levin, KQED The California dream isn’t dead. It just upped and moved to South Dakota. Less than half of people born in California in 1980 are making more money than their parents did as young adults. That’s the lowest percentage of children out-earning their parents that California has seen since at least 1940. […]
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