By Jeff McMahon, Forbes Millions of Americans have been ingesting them for years—perchlorate, hexavalent chromium, volatile organic compounds—not because they’re safe, but because they are among 6,000 toxins the EPA has not gotten around to regulating in municipal drinking water systems. But after a change in administrations and a scathing review by the General Accounting […]
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Often it’s the quick demolition route developers will take to get rid of one project to build another. Materials are thrown in the trash with no consideration for their reuse potential. This is not the case with Edgewood Companies and the sustainable deconstruction effort at 1209 Bonanza Ave., the site of the former C&M Lodge. […]
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Transparency is supposedly coming to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. At least that’s the goal of legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation was sponsored by state Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, who represents the California side of Lake Tahoe. SB593 requires each California member of the TRPA to comply with the requirements of […]
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By Nathaniel Popper and E. Scott Reckard, Los Angeles Times Wall Street retreated back into panic mode amid growing worries about the economy, prompting leaders of major U.S. banks to take the rare step of assuring jittery investors that a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis was not about to happen. The chief executives of […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Casino operator Tropicana Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas reported a second quarter loss Tuesday as business deteriorated at its properties in Atlantic City and Nevada. The company, controlled by investor Carl Icahn, said it lost $2.7 million vs. a loss of $1.6 million in the year-ago quarter. Net revenue […]
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The board that oversees recreation Measure S on Wednesday voted on all the necessary motions to go back to the voters. Measure R would revise the 11-year-old Measure S to allow for more bike trails to be given funding for maintenance and more money for ball fields. The boundaries for the people paying the $18 […]
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A woman who knows the Eldorado National Forest well has been tapped to be the forest supervisor for that region. Kathy Hardy replaces Ramiro Villalvazo who left in June for a position in the Forest Service’s Regional Office in Vallejo. Hardy’s start date has not been determined. She was Placerville District Ranger in Camino from […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee The state’s Herculean effort to wipe the northern pike out of Lake Davis in Plumas County wreaked havoc on the economy in and around Portola, but the city and owners and operators of businesses and property may not proceed in court against the state as a class, an appellate court […]
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By Juan Lopez, Reno Gazette-Journal When Hot August Nights was first gaining a footing in Northern Nevada, Scott Magruder thought, “Well, this will only last for a couple of years.” Little planning went into dealing with the influx of vintage cars those first years, said Magruder, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Transportation. “Then we […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Inspectors discovered a powerboat encrusted with quagga mussels during a routine roadside inspection Sunday, officials report. Thirty-seven quagga mussels were found on the boat, which was repeatedly decontaminated before being released from the inspection station at Spooner Summit, said Pete Brumis, public outreach specialist with the Tahoe Resource Conservation District. […]
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