By Lauren Kirchner, Columbia Journalism Review Early on a February morning, in a glass-walled conference room high up in the Hearst Tower in Manhattan, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke in a careful, reassuring tone. “We can do this; I know that we can do this,” he told the audience, which included representatives from magazine-industry heavyweights […]
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South Lake Tahoe Police responded to a report of a stabbing in area of 11th Street and Eloise Avenue earlier today. Police and South Lake Tahoe Fire Department found a 22 year-old male who had a stab injury to his arm. He was transported to Barton Hospital for treatment. The suspect was described as a […]
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By KQED When you open that faucet, it’s more than water that’s flowing. A few years back, number crunchers at the California Energy Commission tried to add up how much electrical power (and other forms of energy) goes into using water in California. The bottom line number they came up with: 19 percent. That is, […]
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By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post This would be funny if it weren’t so, well, not funny. A biology textbook used by a Christian school in Louisiana that will be accepting students with publicly funded vouchers in the fall says that the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland is real. And it isn’t just any monster but […]
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By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times In the first raid, Orange County sheriff’s detectives hit a Dana Point marijuana storefront, the San Clemente home of its director and a “stash house” he allegedly maintained nearby. In the two homes, they found cash stuffed everywhere: in buckets in the garage and attic, in an Igloo cooler […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – With a history in Lake Tahoe that dates to 1896, the Park family’s Edgewood Companies is poised to build the first high-end lodging establishment on the South Shore. Thursday marked the final day people could comment on the draft environmental impact statement for the Edgewood Lodge. Testimony was taken during […]
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By Andrea Gallo, Sacramento Bee About 75 game birds that appear to have been bred for cockfighting were discovered by El Dorado County Animal Services and the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office at a Shingle Springs residence Tuesday. Cockfighting is illegal throughout the country and California arrests can lead to jail time and fines up […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The Committee to Protect Nevada Jobs filed a lawsuit this week against the “Education Initiative” (margin tax initiative) charging that the petition’s description of effect is deceptive and incomplete and that it violates the single-subject rule. The complaint was filed in Carson City District Court. “From […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Torey Van Oot and Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee California state budgets rarely look better than on the day they are signed. With the fiscal year starting Sunday, revenue has yet to fall short, cuts face no legal challenges and polls show a multibillion-dollar tax initiative clinging to a slim majority of voter […]
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By Kathryn Reed Having South Lake Tahoe be absorbed by El Dorado County, and turning the ice rink into a private enterprise are the two issues the El Dorado County Grand Jury wrote reports on involving the city. While South Tahoe Public Utility District was a target of an investigation, grand jury foreman Ted Long […]
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