By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue In the last year, the price of water in 30 U.S. metropolitan areas has increased an average of 9.4 percent for residential customers with medium consumption levels, according to data collected by Circle of Blue. The median increase for medium consumption was 8.6 percent. Water rates for high-volume consumers […]
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By Kathryn Reed While there is no guarantee of making money from the Amgen Tour de California race, making money is the reason to be part of it. “California’s majestic scenery, thrilling sporting events, world-class museums and art galleries attract millions of visitors to our state each year. Last year visitors spent nearly $90 billion […]
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By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee A proposal to name a small inlet on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe in honor of Mark Twain was turned down Thursday on a 5-to-4 vote of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Louis Yost, executive secretary for the board, said in an email that members rejected the proposal […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown set the stage for this budget fight more than a year ago. The Democratic governor launched his campaign in March 2010 on a promise he would not raise taxes without a vote of the people. It was a way to disarm GOP attacks on taxes while embracing […]
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California State Parks today announced a plan to close up to 70 of its 278 parks due to budget cuts. No Lake Tahoe parks are slated to be shut down. The closures are necessary to achieve an $11 million reduction in fiscal year 2011-12, and $22 million in the following fiscal year as mandated by […]
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By Greg Welter, Oroville Mercury-Register Charges have been dropped in El Dorado County against a Chico man arrested with a large amount of marijuana in his car, but he now faces prosecution in Butte County, where it was allegedly grown. Robert Daniels, 62, was arrested in October 2010 after California Highway Patrol officers reportedly found […]
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By Kathryn Reed Claire Fortier received nearly $10,000 from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency last year. Now she is on the Governing Board of the bi-state regulatory agency and the League to Save to Lake Tahoe is going through TRPA documents to find out what all Fortier has done for TRPA. Since the League brought […]
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By Tim O’Reiley, Las Vegas Review-Journal Even as he promotes his vision for a high-flying airline called LV Air, Eneliko Smith continues to be dogged on the ground by what he terms “my stupid-ass mistakes in the past.” When he first announced the plan in February, Smith laid out a vision for luxury air service […]
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In a first step to fill a major void in diabetes sports research, global sports organization Team Type 1, the official parent company of the Team Type 1-sanofi aventis professional men’s cycling team, will launch a clinical study at the Amgen Tour de California. The pioneering study conducted by the TT1 Diabetes Sports Research Institute, […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Douglas County is tired of waiting for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to update its Regional Plan, so it is revising its master plan to reflect what citizens want – not necessarily what the bi-state regulatory agency dictates. “Everyone is worried the Regional Plan won’t get updated or it will […]
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