By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Fueled by a backlash against the wealthy, Gov. Jerry Brown and left-leaning groups want voters to tax the rich next November. Californians have shown strong support for the idea in polls so far, despite the fact that they haven’t passed a statewide tax hike since 2004. Brown said this month […]
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By Kathryn Reed T.J. Maxx will be opening in South Lake Tahoe this coming spring. With the old Mikasa-Miller’s Outpost building being vacant for more than two years, it has been a long wait for city residents, officials and the landlord for the building at the Y to be filled. The discount clothing store filed […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee In a significant budget win for Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday the state can eliminate the local agencies that subsidize construction in blighted areas. The decision strengthens the state’s ability to take $1.7 billion from redevelopment agencies for the current budget. It also provides […]
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By Blake Ellis, CNN Money NEW YORK — Same-sex spouses are paying as much as $6,000 a year in extra taxes because the federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage, according to an analysis conducted for CNNMoney by tax specialists. While marriage provides tax benefits for many heterosexual couples, same-sex families don’t enjoy the same perks […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun Skip Daly chuckled the first time he saw the website erected last year to anonymously attack his credibility during the Democratic assemblyman’s campaign. “It was just so over the top, of course, no one would believe it,” Daly said. TheUnionBoss.com was filled with ugly clichés about burying bodies in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Second thoughts are what the California State Park and Recreation commissioners are having regarding the October decision to approve the final EIR for the Upper Truckee River restoration project, and to swap land between Washoe Meadows State Park and Lake Valley Recreation Area to allow Lake Tahoe Golf Course to be reconfigured. […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A general improvement district that purchased four beaches on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe in 1968 is not violating the U.S. Constitution in barring the public from the areas, a federal court has ruled. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the petition […]
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A 4-year-old boy survived an 8-foot fall from the Schoolhouse chairlift at Diamond Peak in Incline on Dec. 27. Steve Eikam, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District battalion chief, told Lake Tahoe News his department first called for a helicopter, but canceled that when it was determined the injury was minor. An ambulance transported the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two dogs are dead and the residents of two South Shore houses have been displaced after a fire raced through both structures Monday night. Hot ashes left in a trash can on wood deck smoldered before erupting into flames, engulfing the first house and spreading to the one next door. “This is […]
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By Stephen Magagnini, Sacramento Bee Mandeep Chahal is a young woman in limbo.An honors student at UC Davis, Chahal has plans for medical school and a career spent healing children in poor communities. She is also undocumented, which means no matter what academic degrees she ultimately earns, her ability to work in her chosen profession […]
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