By Kathryn Reed Ray Lacey knew what job he wanted to have before it even existed. Now, after 25 years with the California Tahoe Conservancy, the deputy director is calling it quits. Lacey earned an undergraduate and graduate degree from UC Berkeley and then a graduate degree in watershed planning from UC Davis. While at […]
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By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal Lloyd T. Dyer, and former president and CEO of Harrah’s and a longtime Reno civic leader, died Sunday night. He was 87 and died after a brief battle with cancer, his son, Greg, said Monday. Lloyd Dyer went to work for Harrah’s in 1957, starting in the cashier’s office and […]
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By Ashley Oñoz-Wright, Las Vegas Sun The largest consumer group in history is entering the marketplace. Their wallets bulge with $1.68 trillion in buying power, and by 2020, they are expected to make up one-third of the adult population. They’re the millennials, the generation generally defined as being born between the early 1980s and early 2000s. […]
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By Blake Ellis, CNN Money NEW YORK — Debt-fearing millennials are saying no to credit cards. More than six out of 10 millennials, or 63 percent, don’t have a single credit card, according to a Bankrate survey of 1,161 respondents. That compares to a mere 35 percent of Americans who are over the age of 30. A […]
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Fresh-baked pretzels from the Truckee Sourdough Company and a disc jockey are two additions to North Lake Tahoe’s largest Oktoberfest celebration in the Village at Squaw Valley. The annual event will transform Squaw’s village into a miniature Bavaria on Sept. 27. Squaw Valley’s event is modeled after the original Oktoberfest, a 16-day annual festival in […]
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Cozy is 2 years old. She was left behind when her owners moved. She loves to cuddle and get cozy on laps. Her adoption fee and fees for all other adult cats at the shelter right now have been partially paid by a kind sponsor. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter […]
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By Tara Parker-Pope, New York Times The most reliable workers are those who get seven to eight hours of sleep each night, a new study shows. Researchers from Finland analyzed the sleep habits and missed work days among 3,760 men and women over about seven years. The workers ranged in age from 30 to 64 […]
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By Kathryn Zickuhr and Lee Rainie, Pew Research Younger Americans — those ages 16-29 — especially fascinate researchers and organizations because of their advanced technology habits, their racial and ethnic diversity, their looser relationships to institutions such as political parties and organized religion, and the ways in which their social attitudes differ from their elders. […]
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By Paul A. O’Keefe, New York Times We have all had to work on tasks we detest: Calculus homework, for example, is boring and hard. As soon as we start, we feel mentally exhausted, and the quality of our work suffers. Now imagine you are an aspiring architect. Learning how calculus can help you design […]
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By Scott Blasser On Sept. 11, 2001, our country was attacked. It forever changed our nation in countless ways. In 2009, four firefighters from the Sac Metro Fire Department established a 9/11 Memorial Climb to honor the 343 firefighters that gave their lives on 9/11. The climb is symbolic in nature: 343 died that day, 343 climb […]
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