By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal An Incline Village man was recently awarded $1.375 million in an arbitration case against Banc of America Securities, now Merrill Lynch. The damage award returns his entire investment, plus interest, which was made a year before the 2008 banking crisis unfolded. A stock broker for Bobby Hayes, a retired businessman, […]
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Four Santa Cruz men were arrested this week on charges of transporting and distributing cocaine in Stateline. The monthlong investigation by the Tri-NET Narcotic Task Force, Douglas County sheriff’s deputies and Santa Cruz officers ended March 2 with Joseph Perez, 26, and Oscar Madriz, 25, booked on charges of trafficking and sales of a controlled […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun What happens in California holds sway over many of Nevada’s most important industries: Californians populate the state’s casinos, they are the state’s best would-be buyers of renewable energy, and now, they may be setting a standard for how Nevada’s scarce water resources will be allocated in the future. Or […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Medical marijuana advocates are dropping efforts to qualify a November ballot initiative to regulate California’s dispensary industry and instead plan a media campaign to lobby the Legislature to tackle the issue. Cannabis industry groups including dispensaries, medical marijuana growers and a powerful union drafted the proposed measure in the face […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee The debate over whether government runs best with civil service workers or privately contracted help is re-igniting in the Capitol over legislation that, among other things, would give state workers first dibs whenever the state has work to do. Assemblyman Roger Dickinson, D-Sacramento, contends the civil service-first provision in his […]
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Stateline casinos helped the state top the $1 billion mark in gaming revenues for the first time since September 2008. South Shore’s win in January was 2 percent higher than in 2011 at $17 million. Overall, Nevada saw gaming revenue increase by 18.4 percent from one January to the next, with a total of $1.038 […]
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By Andy Vuong, Denver Post Elliott Anderson loves his Xbox and Nintendo, though it’s not all fun and games. Navigating a Professor Layton adventure on his Nintendo DSi recently helped the Denver sixth-grader breeze through a math problem in class. In the game, Anderson had to divide a circle filled with numbers into three pieces […]
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By Kathryn Reed Without a single member of the public to witness the discussion or vote in person, the South Lake Tahoe City Council unanimously agreed March 6 to borrow $5 million to begin repairing roads. With interest it will cost more than $10 million in taxpayer money in the next 30 years to pay […]
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By Jonathan Mum, News 10 Late Wednesday afternoon, the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office was finally able to locate a relative of 73-year-old twins Patricia and Joan Miller, whose bodies were found after a welfare check at their South Lake Tahoe home in late February. The search for family members to notify them was hampered […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — A conservative Nevada think tank last week published a guide for policymakers and the public on issues ranging from the state spending to public education to tax policy. The 88-page sourcebook, called “Solutions 2013” is a compilation of research and policy recommendations from the Nevada Policy […]
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