By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – A communal approach to BMPs may save individual property owners money and angst, while also keeping more sediment from reaching Lake Tahoe. While the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is not doing away with best management practices, it is headed toward being less focused on what individuals (those 43,000 parcels) are […]
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By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times In a potentially groundbreaking decision, Los Angeles teachers and administrators agreed with the school district for the first time to use student test scores as part of performance reviews beginning this school year. But an attorney for United Teachers Los Angeles later said the commitment he made during a […]
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By Alex Kowalski, Bloomberg For Leon Goldberg, the used clothes piling up at the lost-and-found at the New York Marriott Marquis hotel on Times Square are the latest sign tourists are spending. “People come over with empty suitcases, and we see them leave with full suitcases,” while abandoning their older garments, said Goldberg, the director […]
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One South Lake Tahoe resident was arrested July 27 in connection with an alleged gang shooting and two other residents are being sought. The shooting was on June 27 in the area of Bonanza and B streets. During the investigation officers said they determined a shooting had occurred and there was an exchange of gunfire […]
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By Diana Lambert, Sacramento Bee Military recruiters may be the only people happy about the faltering economy because the high unemployment rate in Northern California is buoying recruitment numbers despite a dearth of eligible candidates. Rampant obesity and a lack of education has made it difficult nationally for the U.S. military to find fresh recruits […]
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By Kathryn Reed Consultants with ties to a slew of El Dorado County officials, including a Superior Court judge, face civil complaints stemming from a contract with the Pioneer Fire Protection District. Dan Dellinger and Cris Alarcon, who operate Dellinger Consulting, are the target of El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson’s complaint that was […]
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By Theresa Harrington, Contra Costa Times California has the largest child population, but the state ranks near the bottom — 41st in the nation — when it comes to children’s well-being, according to a report released Wednesday. In fact, California is failing in three of four measures that gauge health and well-being, says a report […]
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By Mitchell Landsberg, Los Angeles Times RENO — Women are bowling in the middle of a downtown street. Men are climbing the sides of a high-rise hotel. As necks crane and bowling balls skitter into pins, a loudspeaker blares Bruce Springsteen’s “Glory Days.” There is, it would seem, almost nothing this town wouldn’t do to […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Placerville-based El Dorado Savings Bank reported a profit of $2.1 million for the second quarter ended June 30, down nearly 10 percent from last year’s second quarter. “The drop in earnings was due to the continued record-low interest rates available on new loans and investments,” said Thomas Meuser, chairman and […]
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By Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee Restaurant hiring outpaced overall employment growth nationwide year-over-year, and one in five eateries plans to increase its staffing in the second half of the year, according to the National Restaurant Association. The industry trade group, in its quarterly employment report, said restaurant employment rose 2.7 percent nationally from June 2011 […]
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