MEYERS — South Lake Tahoe counselors came together June 4 to discuss various career paths available to students through local academic programs. Lake Valley Fire Protection District Station 7 in Meyers was the site for the informational workshop hosted by Virginia Boyar, director of Career and Technical Education at Lake Tahoe Community College. The workshop […]
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By Erin Kelly, Gannett WASHINGTON — The departure of disgraced former Sen. John Ensign has set off a political chain reaction that will weaken the clout of Nevada’s small congressional delegation, analysts say. “We’re going to have an exciting and competitive election season, but when it’s over, we’ll end up with a lot less clout […]
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The Citizens Redistricting Commission is continuing to take testimony from Californians before drawing its first round of draft maps, which will be released June 10. There will be a public input hearing in Sacramento on June 28 from 6 to 9pm at the state Capitol, Room 4203, Sacramento. If you are unable to attend the […]
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By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY – The bill to pull Nevada out of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency unless the body implements certain reforms passed out of the Assembly’s Government Affairs committee Saturday evening. The bill passed with a vote of 10-1, with the lone no vote cast by Assemblywoman Teresa Benitez-Thompson, D-Reno, who had […]
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By Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times At first it seemed an oddity: a scattering of reports in the spring and early summer of 1981 that young gay men in New York and California were ill with forms of pneumonia and cancer usually seen only in people with severely weakened immune systems. In hindsight, of […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee The $100,000 pension club is growing fast. Almost 9,000 retirees in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System receive at least $100,000 in annual benefits, more than quadruple the number getting that much during 2005, according to a Bee review of CalPERS data. Collectively, these pensioners will receive about $1.1 billion […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee The last time Nancy Garrido will ever see her husband likely came at 9:26 a.m. Thursday, as she was being escorted out of a Placerville courtroom and headed off to begin her 36-year prison sentence. “Love you,” she mouthed to Phillip Garrido, who sat shackled in the courtroom jury box […]
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By Tom Haydon, Star-Ledger In August 1984, after Nancy Dunsavage heard that a judge in Somerville had awarded temporary custody of their 6-year-old daughter to her ex-husband, the mother fled the state with the child. Friday, in the same courthouse, Dunsavage pleaded guilty to interfering with custody and was sentenced to 18 days, the length […]
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By Kathy Garvey, Daily Democrat Professor James R. Carey knows that the value of seminars is invaluable. When the UC Davis entomology professor chaired the UC Systemwide Committee on Research Policy, he called for a strategic approach to record, broadcast and archive the hundreds of seminars that take place weekly on the 10 UC campuses. […]
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Camp Concord is looking to make improvements to its facilities on the outskirts of South Lake Tahoe. The Bay Area city operates a camp near the trailhead for Mount Tallac. Bids are being taken on making the family bathhouse compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Improvements will be made to the men’s and women’s […]
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