By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News For the past 10 years, California has struggled with huge budget deficits and wrenching cuts. Suddenly, however, the state is poised to raise billions from an unusual new source: the proceeds from its landmark global warming law. The windfall could come as soon as this fall, when state […]
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By Spencer Michels, PBS News Hour A hundred or so students made a ruckus recently at Santa Monica College, and — unlike many student protests — they achieved their goals. In the face of a noisy demonstration and disapproval from the state, the college administration backed down on tuition increases it had proposed, that would […]
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By Kathryn Reed Voters will decide if Lake Tahoe Community College must deal with “the good” or “the ugly” budget scenario. “The model we are using now is the bad,” LTCC President Kindred Murillo told the board. It’s between “the good” which requires cutting costs by $800,000 and “the ugly” which requires cuts of $1.3 […]
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By KRNV-TV WALNUT CREEK — Verizon Wireless on Thursday announced it will expand the nation’s largest 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Reno in the coming weeks. The expanded 4G LTE network will enable customers to use their wireless devices in more parts of Reno to access the Internet faster; listen to music or […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nevada is out of the running for next round of federal Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge funds to improve early childhood education. Nevada submitted its application in November 2011. The U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services announced today that $133 million from […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Lahontan Water Quality Control Board has hired an executive director from outside the agency to replace Harold Singer who is retiring. Patty Zwarts will be leaving her position with CalRecyle where she works in the Materials Management and Local Assistance Division. She was not available for comment. It’s possible she will […]
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Who will take over the old Kingsbury Middle School is still an unknown. No written bids came in before the April 10 Douglas County school board meeting and none was verbally delivered that evening. The asking price is $4 million. State law doesn’t allow for negotiating the price. Rules also limit the type of future […]
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By Kathryn Reed Needing to reduce the threat of another wildfire was a point easily agreed to. How to accomplish that goal – well – that was finally resolved at 10:20pm April 11. It took eight years to reach that decision. On Wednesday the Lahontan Water Quality Control Board voted 5-0 to approve the permit […]
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By Martha Garcia, Colfax Record A house in the Alpine Meadows subdivision about five miles east of Colfax was destroyed by fire Wednesday noon. According to Cal Fire Battalion Chief Doug Rinella, a neighbor across the street from the one-story home located in the 28000 block of Manzanita Trail noticed flames shooting through the structure’s […]
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By Lynn Peeples, Huffington Post Darren Collins doesn’t know life without Lyme disease. He was just 11 months old when he came home from Wisconsin’s Mauthe Lake Campground pasty white, lethargic and running a fever of 105. Darren’s flu-like illness eventually subsided, but a host of other troubling Lyme-related symptoms — stomachaches, irritability and concentration […]
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