By Kathryn Reed Former members of South Tahoe Area Transit Authority, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and the law firm of Feldman, Shaw & McLaughlin received more bad news this month from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Reno. David Thompson, the federal bankruptcy trustee, filed a complaint against STATA’s member agencies in which he states that […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The state Board of Examiners voted to settle a legal dispute with Washoe County over local tax revenue taken by the 2009 Legislature to balance the state budget. The settlement provides an immediate payment of $1.25 million to the county, with another $6 million being allocated […]
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By Reuters Yosemite National Park has begun trapping and killing deer mice whose growing numbers may have helped create the conditions that led to a hantavirus outbreak that has infected eight park visitors, killing three, public health officials said on Tuesday. Yosemite officials in recent weeks have warned some 22,000 people who stayed in the […]
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By Cynthia H. Craft, Sacramento Bee The federal health care overhaul is a complex structure woven through with carrots and sticks, incentives and disincentives. Physicians get payments to implement sleek new electronic health records systems. Hospitals get penalized financially if too many patients require readmittance. Now, in California, an Affordable Care Act grant is offering […]
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By Kate Mather and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – In his 30-plus years as a doctor, Bruce Tempest had never seen anything like it. A Navajo man having trouble breathing showed up at the emergency room of a small hospital in Gallup, N.M. Less than an hour later, he was dead. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Wiping the slate clean. That was one of the overriding messages the Tahoe Transportation District staff and board wanted people on all sides of the loop road to hear and embrace. That doesn’t mean the proposed reroute of Highway 50 through the South Shore that has caused so much consternation […]
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By Pat Bridges, Snowboarder On Sept. 12, snowboarding pioneer Tom Sims passed away after suffering a heart attack. Tom’s legacy looms large for anyone who has ever aspired to achieve a sideways descent down snow-covered slopes. Born Dec. 6, 1950, in Haddon Field, N.J., Tom has often relayed the story of how he conceived of […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Spurred on by fanatically loyal shoppers like Christine Dugger of Sacramento, e-commerce giant Amazon.com is doing something it spent years trying to avoid. On Saturday, Amazon will begin collecting sales tax from California customers. The move will erase some of the price advantage Amazon enjoys over brick-and-mortar stores. But it […]
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El Dorado County Animal Services is searching for the owner of an all-white male pit bull that bit a woman Sept. 10 at approximately 6:30pm while she was walking on the trail at Jenkinson Lake in Sly Park. The incident occurred when the dog, on a long leash and jogging with its owner, approached the […]
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By Kathryn Reed “When I took this job three years ago, I was told it was called the Field of Dreams. I think it’s a Field of Nightmares.” That is what Steve Kolesnik, South Tahoe High School softball coach, told the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education Sept. 11. While it may never […]
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