By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times They sifted through about 800 programs to prevent and fight obesity–to find the ones most likely to counter the nation’s growing girth. In the end, a panel of independent experts asserted that only by implementing many of those initiatives at once can the nation make real progress. Reversing the […]
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By Mark Robison, Reno Gazette-Journal Actions by Nevada voters in 2000 and 2002 are costing the state tourism dollars now and may for decades to come. The state’s constitutional ban on marriage by same-sex couples may also cost Nevada its reputation as the marriage capital of the world. It’s possible that Nevada’s voters find same-sex […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the percentage of protests to the proposed sewer and water hikes in single digits, the South Tahoe Public Utility District board can go forward with raising rates. On the May 17 agenda is an item to raise sewer rates by 5 percent and water by 2 percent. At the May 10 […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – They have names like “A Better Nevada PAC”, “A Bolder Nevada” and “The Nevada Hispanic Legislative Caucus”. They are all political action committees formed or renewed by state lawmakers this year to help promote their parties, push their candidates and protect their ranks in an effort […]
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By Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times An alarming number of California high school graduates are deciding not to attend the state’s once-vaunted public universities, researchers have found. From 2007 to 2010, the percentage of graduates attending University of California or California State University campuses fell by 20 percent, according to figures released Wednesday by the […]
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By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun U.S. News and World Report is looking into a local high school’s ranking as the nation’s 13th-best public high school after its principal questioned the data used by the national magazine. U.S. News’ Best High Schools rankings were released Tuesday, with Green Valley High School in Henderson earning a […]
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By Nicholas Riccardi, Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown today released a $91-billion budget proposal that sharply cuts health and welfare spending, reduces state payrolls by 5 percent and freezes construction of new courthouses. Brown’s revised budget reflects a steadily worsening fiscal picture for California. On Saturday, he announced via YouTube that the state’s deficit […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee The Placer County Sheriff’s Department has identified the victim of a fatal head-on collision in a north Lake Tahoe community on Thursday as Thomas Heron, 67, of Carnelian Bay. Heron died and a Tahoe City man was injured when their pickups collided at 11:43am near Ridgewood Drive on Highway 28. […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee In the past decade, red and blue states alike, from Mississippi to New York, have approved more than 100 tobacco tax hikes in a desperate hunt for budget revenue. But not one has passed in California, whose 87-cent cigarette tax dropped from third-highest in the nation in 1999 to 33rd […]
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By Daniel Gross, Newsweek On Aug. 5, 2011, when Standard & Poor’s stripped the United States of its AAA credit rating, it was the latest in a string of economic humiliations for the U.S. After the failure of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008, the globe’s longtime economic leader suffered its deepest and longest […]
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