By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District is essentially creating parallel budgets because of items on the November ballot that would affect the bottom line. But the reality is the board will be asked at its June 26 meeting to approve just one budget for the 2012-13 school year. CFO Deb Yates on June […]
Read more
Students and staff at Sierra House Elementary School had some unexpected excitement this last week of school. The school was on lockdown Wednesday afternoon when a nearby resident saw an uninvited visitor in her home. “We set up a perimeter around the house to contain the suspect, and called the school to have them lockdown […]
Read more
By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times Their pitches were simple and tailored to the audience. Come to my college, the out-of-state recruiters recently told high school students in Lakewood, and you will be taught in small classes and you’ll graduate in four years. We’ll even throw in a few thousand dollars just for being from […]
Read more
By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Alfred Villalobos, the central figure in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System bribery investigation, has won and lost millions gambling in Nevada’s casinos. Now he’s suing two of his favorite haunts for $600,000, demanding his money back. The lawsuits, filed last week in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, are an outgrowth of […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District is going to come up with a list of priorities for the ball fields it owns to give the committee recommending how to spend $500,000 of taxpayer money. The district owns all the fields where children and adults play softball-baseball-soccer on the California side of the South […]
Read more
The Placer County Board of Supervisors adopted a proposed 2012-13 budget this month, a move that ensures the county will have a balanced spending plan in place when the next fiscal year begins July 1. Development of the five-year strategy is part of the board’s ongoing efforts to protect the county’s fiscal health and preserve […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – Ridding the swales between Tallac and Taylor creeks of invasive species could help reverse the decline of native fish species so in future years third- and fourth-graders might be able to see what the Washoe were accustomed to harvesting from Lake Tahoe. Back in the day when Washoe summered […]
Read more
Three-time Douglas County commissioner and current assemblyman for the area Kelly Kite lost his seat Tuesday night. Jim Wheeler won the Republican primary for Assembly District 39 with 2,397 votes (41.54 percent). Kite had 2,012 votes (34.87 percent), and Gary Schmidt 1,361 votes (23.59 percent). Wheeler will face Independent American candidate David Schumann in November. […]
Read more
By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee After a week of strike talk and increasing bitterness, Northern California supermarket workers have called in a strategist from their union’s international headquarters to help with stalled contract negotiations. William McDonough, director of bargaining for the United Food and Commercial Workers, came to the Bay Area on Monday at the […]
Read more
By Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 to […]
Read more