By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal To the parents and grandparents who took the time to share the science of last week’s Great American Eclipse to children and grandchildren, I salute you. You might have planted a seed of curiosity that one day might play an important role in our tourism economy. The youngsters […]
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By Olga R. Rodriguez and Jonathan J. Cooper, AP There was no rain, no rumbling, no sign of danger before the blinding flash and deafening bang of a lightning bolt threw Mathias Steinhuber to the ground, tore off his clothes and burned a gaping hole in his shoe. The 31-year-old Austrian teacher, an avid hiker, […]
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By Kathryn Reed The financial situation in El Dorado County continues to deteriorate. The obligation to retirees via CalPERS keeps growing and contract negotiations with employees could be going better. The county’s unfunded obligation to the California Public Employees Retirement System is more than $346 million. This is $64 million more than when the last […]
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By Paul Harasim, Las Vegas Review-Journal A nonprofit created by heavy hitters from Nevada’s business and medical communities gave the state a D grade on its first report card on the state’s health-care system. The report card was released Wednesday by the Nevada Medical Center, or NMC, and is intended to focus attention on improving […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun In three of the first four states to start legal recreational pot sales, an increasing number of consumers are choosing bud over Budweiser. That conclusion comes from a study by New York-based investment and research firm Cowen and Co. In Colorado, Oregon and Washington, domestic beer sales for Budweiser, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Before Whittell High School’s football plays its first game tonight it has already scored in the arena of community cooperation, as has Lake Tahoe Unified School District. They are showing what it truly means to blur the state line. Construction equipment is occupying Whittell’s gridiron as it undergoes a major transformation. It’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed A toxic algae bloom is covering a large swath of the Tahoe Keys, prompting a warning to people to be wary of the water. Officials with the Tahoe Keys have known about the blue-green algae since Aug. 11. Warnings, though, did not start until Aug. 23. For such a big problem, the […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink At 5:45 one morning in early June, Tahoe Vista resident Brent Thrams parked his truck in front of the grove of cottonwood trees near the entrance to Christy Hill restaurant in Tahoe City. Thrams, who was accompanied by two others, was not there to watch the sun rise over Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — It was a lively conversation about a deadly situation at Wednesday’s Tahoe Region Planning Agency Governing Board meeting. Trees took up the morning session; specifically dead trees and what is being done about them. One good winter didn’t cure what ails Lake Tahoe’s forests – or those throughout the Sierra. […]
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By Carolyn Wilke, Sacramento Bee A recent report by UC Davis gave a grim assessment on the health of forests around Lake Tahoe. The threats facing them include white pine blister rust, an invasive fungus, and bark beetles, an insect that attacks trees. And both of these were exacerbated by the recent drought. From 2015 […]
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