By Gary Taubes, Newsweek Most of my favorite factoids about obesity are historical ones, and they don’t make it into the new, four-part HBO documentary on the subject, The Weight of the Nation. Absent, for instance, is the fact that the very first childhood-obesity clinic in the United States was founded in the late 1930s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sides are clearly being drawn as the clock ticks on the comment period on the environmental impact statement for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan update. TRPA Executive Director Joanne Marchetta is making the rounds pitching her agency’s views that are contained in preferred alternative 3. Meetings are scheduled to gain […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee The pile-on was in full effect within hours of Gov. Jerry Brown’s announcement this week that California’s budget deficit had grown to $15.7 billion, with The Week giving its national audience a summary of the Golden State’s financial affairs. “California’s financial apocalypse,” the magazine offered. “A concise guide.” Fox News […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun With the state about a month away from granting its first online gambling license, two experts told members of the Gaming Policy Committee on Monday that regulators needed to stay vigilant in their efforts to keep the online gaming environment secure. One of them hopes to take the […]
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By Kathryn Reed One South Lake Tahoe beach concessionaire is locked in – Free Bird will be at Lakeview Commons. These are the crepe people. Lake Taco has been offered a deal to continue operating at Regan Beach, but owner Danny Chavez has told city officials he isn’t so sure he wants it because access […]
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By Nick Wiltgen, Weather.com The waning influence of La Niña helped April 2012 to become the fifth warmest April worldwide in 133 years of recordkeeping, and the warmest April on record in the Northern Hemisphere, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center. The global average temperature of 57.87 degrees F last month was […]
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Sixteen contractors on the South Shore were accused operating without proper licenses by either the California Contractors State License Board or Nevada State Contractors Board during a simultaneous enforcement operation. The individuals are accused of contracting without a license and related violations of home improvement contracting law. The sting operations were conducted at a single […]
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By Rebecca Ruiz, Huffington Post Drew McWilliams, a clinician and the Chief Operating Officer at Morrison Child and Family Services in Portland, Ore., suggests that amid the underwater mortgages, chronic unemployment and other fallout of the recent recession, a less obvious but equally worrying phenomenon has emerged: the troubled minds of children. Since the financial […]
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One segment of the Stateline-to-Stateline bike trail should break ground this summer. The bid process is open. Potential contractors have until June 1 at 1:30pm to submit their proposals. Last fall planners had hoped to seek bids in April for the 3.2-mile south demo part of the larger 30-mile route that goes from Stateline to […]
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By Michelle Andrews, NPR If you’ve got cancer, chances are you’d rather take a pill to fight the cancer cells than sit for hours hooked up to an IV line as the chemotherapy drips slowly into you. The difficulty is, many of the new cancer pills, which often target cancer cells for destruction but leave […]
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