By Tamara Burns As an emergency room nurse, I have cared for visitors and locals who experience heat-related illnesses. This includes dehydration, heat exhaustion and heat stroke. It is important to understand the differences, especially when exercising in an area like Lake Tahoe with higher altitudes and higher temperatures. Dehydration occurs when the body does […]
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By Richard B. Alman There’s good news for jobs in the United States. • In June, the private sector added 288,000 jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. • The unemployment rate has shrunk to 6.1 percent, the lowest since September 2008, when the Great Recession was just starting. The rate has dropped nearly […]
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Author Mary Jo Sonntag will share “Write, If You Live to Get There Tracing Westward Expansion Through 120 Years of Family Letters” on Aug. 13 at 6pm. It tells the story of the Phillips family’s westward migration from Vermont to Northern California told through a collection of letters. They talk of the family’s entrepreneurial spirit […]
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By Nick Bilton, New York Times The last thing I remember was the tears running in rivulets down my cheek as I confirmed that, yes, I did want to delete the picture on my Facebook page. Several hours later, I, grossly hung over, was awoken by a flash flood of the rising sun through my […]
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Baxter is a 4-year-old red pit bull who is very quiet in the shelter. He is house trained and has great manners. He walks nicely on the leash and is very affectionate, and likes well-mannered children and other dogs. Baxter is not a fan of cats, and needs to be on a runner when left […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Sacramento Bee Stuart Waldman did all he could to help a dog that had been in his family for eight years. Treating the Anatolian shepherd came at a high cost: $17,000. When Waldman rescued his next dog, he decided, he would buy pet insurance. “God forbid anything happen again,” the Los Angeles […]
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By Haitham “Hutch” Ashoo and Chris Snyder As people get closer to the age when they hope to retire, traditional wisdom calls for moving into more conservative – safer – investments, such as Treasury bonds and many fixed-income mutual funds. The problem is, what is safe for one person may not be safe for another, […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times A study delves into one of the great mysteries of diet, exercise and weight loss: why, when you’ve started a grueling exercise regimen in a bid to shape up, it’s common to gain, not lose weight. Sure, there’s the old reassurance that muscles weigh more than fat. But when […]
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By Allie Caren, NPR Don’t have a green thumb but seeking the therapeutic nature of gardening? Want the convenience and satisfaction of growing your own produce at home? Not to worry: All you need is an electrical outlet, a flat surface and some water. Meet SproutsIO Inc., a “plug-and-play” user-friendly microfarming appliance for people to […]
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Avid volunteer and longtime Lake Tahoe resident Daniel Lee Kerr has died. Mr. Kerr died June 27. He was 76. He was born in Seattle on Oct. 7, 1937, weighing only 2.2 pounds. As a young boy the family moved to San Diego. That is where his love of surfing developed. He proclaimed himself to […]
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