By Kathryn Reed Snowmobiles stored across multiple lots in a residential area. Overturned garbage cans with trash strewn about. Boarded up abandoned houses. Businesses moving half their belongings to the outdoors. Junk cluttering yards so it looks like a mini landfill. This is South Lake Tahoe. While not every parcel is a visual nightmare, hardly […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The United Nations is haunting El Dorado County. Critics of a 20-year-old U.N. document called Agenda 21 are becoming more vocal, blaming it for any number of ills in the county. Agenda 21 came out of a United Nations conference in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It recommends a framework […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Long-time Republican political consultant Sig Rogich said the 2013 Nevada Legislature has to take a serious look at collective bargaining reforms so that situations like the impending layoff of hundreds of Clark County teachers can be avoided in the future. “I think we’ve got to look […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee In a major case involving gay rights at CalPERS, the nation’s largest public pension fund has been ordered to offer its long-term care insurance program to same-sex partners of California workers. A federal judge in Oakland struck down portions of the federal Defense of Marriage Act that have prevented the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Talks are under way for another grocery store in South Lake Tahoe to have a gas station associated with it. Owners of the Fox Gas Station and Safeway are talking about the Bay Area-based grocery store chain buying the locally owned station on Highway 50. Officials with South Lake Tahoe told Lake […]
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By Tanya Caldwell, New York Times A California lawmaker is proposing to limit the number of international and out-of-state students who can enroll at University of California campuses. The 10 campuses that make up the U.C. system — including selective universities like Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles — would be prohibited from […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee The 2012 “fire season” will officially begin at 8am Monday, and fire officials urge residents, especially those living or recreating in rural areas, to use caution. The state’s final snow survey May 1 found the snowpack water content is only 40 percent of normal. From January though April, California Department […]
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By Richard Perez-Pena, New York Times School districts will be able to submit proposals for innovative educational programs this year to compete for federal grants of up to $25 million under a new national contest, part of the three-year-old Race to the Top program. Rules for the competition were to be announced on Tuesday by […]
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By ScienceDaily Results of a new U.S. Geological Survey study conclude that faults west of Lake Tahoe, referred to as the Tahoe-Sierra frontal fault zone, pose a substantial increase in the seismic hazard assessment for the Lake Tahoe region of California and Nevada, and could potentially generate earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 6.3 to 6.9. […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Raley’s declared an impasse in its labor negotiations Friday, ratcheting up tensions with its unionized workforce. The move could push the West Sacramento supermarket chain to its first-ever strike. But employees will continue to work under terms of their current contract at least through June 6, when the contract expires. […]
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