By Kathryn Reed Steven Nichols didn’t have time for graduation. He had a job to do. To fight a fire in Colorado. But his presence was clearly felt at Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy’s graduation June 23. He is one of 32 graduates of this year’s program that is run through Lake Tahoe Community College […]
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By Kathryn Reed When the El Dorado County Grand Jury report comes out in the next week an item about the Pioneer Fire Protection District will seem a bit vague to those not in the know. This is because the consulting firm in question has not been named. The firm in question is Dan Dellinger […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Wall Street analysts say a U.S. Supreme Court ruling could stall development of some Indian casinos around the country — a situation that casino opponents are already seizing upon. The court on this month allowed a lawsuit to proceed in which a foe of the Gun Lake Casino in […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal The Transportation Security Administration is preparing a new screening device at Reno-Tahoe International Airport that will show only a generic outline of a person and not passenger-specific images. The Advanced Imaging Technology unit will be used at the airport’s second-floor north Concourse C checkpoint only while the airport undergoes a […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee On one side is a third-generation union man, leader of a labor empire stretching from the Oregon border to Death Valley. On the other is a veteran labor-relations consultant and Republican politico with a history of tangling with unions in the public and private sectors. Little wonder they have trouble […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Andy Pugno came from behind Friday to win a spot on the November ballot, but he must decide whether to keep a promise to support his Assembly opponent, fellow Republican Beth Gaines. Pugno overtook Democrat Regy Bronner by about 800 votes, largely on the strength of Placer County provisional, write-in […]
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CHP won’t talk about Truckee dispatch investigation By Kathryn Reed Within 13 seconds of the first call that came into the South Lake Tahoe dispatch center at 2:09:13pm on June 24, 2007, fire units were alerted. Leona Allen doesn’t know how many calls she received that first day. Working alone in the dispatch center on […]
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By Ashlee Vance, Bloomberg Businessweek At 71, Dave Duffield ought to be retired. He’s spent a half-century starting technology companies and is worth billions. He has a $35 million Dassault Falcon 900EX jet, homes in the Bay Area and Palm Springs, and a seven-building vacation compound on Lake Tahoe with plenty of space for his […]
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By Claudio Sanchez, NPR Forty years ago, former President Richard Nixon signed Title IX, which said no person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from any education program or activity. Vocational education courses that barred girls — such as auto mechanics, carpentry and plumbing — became available for everyone. But it’s still hard […]
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By Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post Marijuana use among teens has been on the rise for some time–it’s become more popular than smoking cigarettes in recent years–but a provocative new study shows that legalizing pot for medical purposes doesn’t increase the chance that teens will abuse it or certain other drugs. “There is anecdotal evidence that […]
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