By Kathryn Reed Recreational marijuana won’t be for sale in South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 1, but it might be by next fall. The City Council is taking a slow, deliberate approach to implementing Proposition 64, the 2016 statewide initiative legalizing recreational pot. Jurisdictions don’t have to allow sales. The city must allow the personal […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada Sen. Dean Heller told the story Monday morning of how Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., invited some airline executives to his office, seated them on a couch, then jammed a coffee table up against their knees. It is an example of how lawmakers are lobbied to legislate consumer […]
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By Guy Marzorati, KQED-TV Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly have reached a deal on a $4 billion bond measure to fund affordable housing in the state. The measure addresses one cause of California’s affordable housing crisis: a lack of state funding to construct homes for low-income residents. Senate Bill […]
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By Kathryn Reed Figuring out how to make the water near the shore as consistency clear as it is in the middle of Lake Tahoe is confounding scientists. Part of the problem is the limited historical data there is to work with. While scientists for decades have been studying the overall lake clarity issue, the […]
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By Moonshine Ink They came from the San Fernando Valley, the Bay Area, the beaches of Santa Barbara and the Sacramento Valley. Many were ex-collegiate level athletes that mostly came to Lake Tahoe to swing hammers in the summer months to help with the area’s building boom of the 1970s. Some came to work and […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Californians can’t shake their love affair with cars – and pickups and SUVs. That’s hurting the greenest state in the union’s much-publicized crusade against climate change. While California is making headway in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the rate of progress is slowing. Emissions fell by a scant 0.3 percent in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gears. Oh, my, I will never take them for granted on my bikes ever again. Sunday’s tiny excursion through South Lake Tahoe on a LimeBike proved a few things: a) I might be in worse shape than I want to admit, b) the town is not as flat as I think it […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun When it comes to recreational marijuana here, the message from the Nevada Gaming Commission to casino companies is clear: Stay away from the newly legal industry, whether it’s pot use by customers or business relationships with the weed industry. The commission discussed the issue Thursday during its monthly meeting […]
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By Megan Rowling, Reuters The world needs to use water more efficiently rather than exhausting invisible underground supplies and blindly exporting “virtual water” to avert a global crisis that would undermine food and energy systems, a leading expert warned. More than one-third of humanity is water-stressed every year or season, while drought crises are on […]
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By Kathryn Reed Being in the business of recovering dead bodies is stressful and rewarding. The past few days have been extremely satisfying for Keith Cormican and his girlfriend Beth Darst. On Saturday they recovered the body of Pham Dan Vu Thanh just north of Emerald Bay. He had gone kayaking by himself on June […]
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