For the second month in a row Nevada casinos posted growth in revenues. The same cannot be said for the South Shore. Statewide revenue was up nearly 16 percent in June compared to the previous year. While the South Shore saw an increase of 15 percent in May, in June the Stateline casinos reported a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified and Lake Tahoe Community College might share a board member. This is because Michael Bischoff is running for both boards in the November election. The 59-year-old believes his four years on the Dublin Unified School District board and a desire to give back to his community are reasons he […]
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By Kathryn Reed The treasurer of the board that oversees recreation Measure S on the South Shore just recently found out about the half dozen meetings the board has had this year geared primarily to rewriting the voter approved initiative. It took a call by an El Dorado County resident to county Auditor Joe Harn […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Most of California’s legislators and congressional representatives will be elected over the next decade from districts dominated by white voters, the state’s new political maps show. Districts drawn by the state’s first-ever redistricting commission may bolster the clout of other racial groups – particularly Latinos – but probably not end […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment Corp. today joined other big Las Vegas Strip casino operators in reporting stronger business trends. And thanks in part to cost cutting, the company narrowed its quarterly loss from $274 million in 2010’s second quarter to $155.5 million in the 2011 second quarter. Net revenue increased slightly […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Wall Street’s scary losing streak could put a dent in California’s fragile economic recovery. In some ways, it already has. The huge downturn in the stock market, punctuated by Monday’s near-record fall, is costing the state’s public pension funds billions of dollars. It’s putting a strain on tax revenues – […]
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When it adopted the budget last fiscal year, the Placer County Board of Supervisors directed Planning Services staff to begin the process of updating community plans within the Lake Tahoe Basin. There are nine County Community/General Plans within the basin. Most are joint planning documents between the county and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency adopted nearly […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN – Plans to reroute Burke Creek under Highway 50 are getting under way in the first phase of a long-term project to restore Rabe Meadow. Douglas County Commissioners last week requested $100,000 from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Stream Environment Zone Fund to design the Burke Creek portion of the project. […]
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By Michael Martinez, Reno Gazette-Journal The Washoe County School District is facing a $50 million budget deficit this year. Will greening the operations of the school district erode that revenue shortfall? Probably not. But what a handful of projects might do is jump-start the district’s mandate to get students prepared for green jobs that the […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal When Ormat Technologies Inc. first set up shop in Northern Nevada in 1984, geothermal development activity was about as hot as a lukewarm glass of tap water. “I think we maybe had one or two more geothermal developers back then,” said Paul Thomsen, Ormat’s director of policy and business development. […]
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