By Diana Lambert, Sacramento Bee For decades, California educators have wrestled with how to teach history in the public schools. Given the diversity of race, ethnicity and religion in California’s classrooms, whose story do you tell? Who are the leading characters? And how are they portrayed? Existing state law requires social studies lessons to incorporate […]
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By Kathryn Reed Air vs. water. Super bad tasting liquid vs. tablets in water. Spending the night in the bathroom vs. sleeping. Those are some of the differences between the traditional prep for a colonoscopy and using hydrotherapy. Hydrotherapy has been around for a number of years, but used mostly in the wellness community as […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Jaycee Lee Dugard plans to offer the “full story” of her 18 years as a prisoner of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in a book that goes on sale July 12. But prosecutors in the Garrido case are moving to block release of grand jury transcripts that describe her ordeal, at […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee The state agency that decides whether teachers are fit for California classrooms has a record of hiring workers with family ties. Last year, the employee roster included two sets of siblings, one father-daughter pair, and three instances in which the child of an existing employee was hired temporarily as a […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal As if Joe Kelley needed another challenge. The interim CEO of the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority already has made additional staff and budget cuts since he took over at the recession-weary agency in February. Now soaring gasoline prices are muscling for his attention to the Reno-Tahoe region’s crucial summer […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY – After three declining months, casinos on the Las Vegas Strip in March posted a 12.8 percent increase in gaming win fueled by strong showings in baccarat and other table games. The state Gaming Control Board reported today the Strip casinos reported $527.2 million in win. The […]
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Publisher’s note: Teachers from Lake Tahoe Unified School District are in Sacramento this week. The union pays for subs in the classroom. By Jon Ortiz and David Siders, Sacramento Bee The state’s largest teachers union revved up its faithful Monday to lean on state lawmakers to extend current tax rates – and eventually increase them. […]
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Snow on Monday caused about a five-hour delay in Caltrans being able start work on Echo Summit. The one-way controls started about 9:30am on Highway 50 on the main stretch of asphalt that links the South Shore with the Bay Area and Sacramento. Deanna Shoopman, spokeswoman with Caltrans, told Lake Tahoe News on May 9 […]
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South Lake Tahoe residents probably woke to flashing alarm clocks Monday morning. This is because the power was out from 12:08 to 3:29am. It affected about 24,000 customers. Liberty Energy officials said the problem started with NV Energy’s Buckeye substation in Carson City. The Buckeye Substation delivers power to two Liberty Energy substations — one […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Children in frigid areas have “snow day” school closures. Could students across sunny California face “budget days” in bad fiscal times? Gov. Jerry Brown and school officials warn that shutting down school one month early – 20 instructional days – is a real possibility for the next school year without […]
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