By Steve Timko, Reno Gazette-Journal In the past few years, fires have threatened homes along the western Sierra front by mid-August. Or, smoke has drifted over from California wildfires and filled Reno’s skies, maybe even hurting air quality. Knock on wood. So far, that hasn’t happened much. And, western Nevada fire crews like the way […]
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By Sacramento Bee We’re more than 40 days into the state government’s new fiscal year. Democrats and Republicans still can’t agree on how to close the state’s estimated $19 billion deficit. It wasn’t until recently, in fact, that Assembly and Senate legislative leaders settled on a detailed plan that has the support of both Democratic […]
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By Kathryn Reed When people start lining up outside St. Theresa Catholic Church this afternoon for their bag of food to sustain them, they will receive nothing. Instead, a note on the door will say the shelves are bare and there is nothing to hand out. This is the first week the South Lake Tahoe […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee As a recent visitor to Lake Tahoe approached the lower base end of the gondola ride at Squaw Valley Resort, he wondered aloud about the nearby Ritz-Carlton hotel. “Didn’t they go into bankruptcy?” asked Daniel Huffman, of Cool. The answer is no, the luxury hotel, which opened last year at […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE –Tourism, health-wellness, and the environment. These three areas are supposed to be the economic saviors of Lake Tahoe. In a room full of about 70 of Tahoe’s movers and shakers on Monday the two-hour talk was all about the Lake Tahoe Basin Prosperity Plan. A bit of irony is the […]
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By J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Business Times San Francisco-based JMA Ventures has acquired Lake Tahoe’s West Shore Café, a lakefront property located next to Homewood Mountain Resort. JMA’s acquisition of West Shore Café represents a new beginning for the restaurant, which closed its doors during the summer of 2009. Read the whole story
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By Jack Chang, Sacramento Bee This year, the long road to the governor’s office runs through the high desert reservation of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians. It also stops at the reservations – and casinos – of the Sycuan and Viejas bands of the Kumeyaay Nation east of San Diego. In fact, the campaign […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Invasive species, the threat of devastating wildfires and the economic future of Lake Tahoe will be topics at the forefront of the 14th annual Lake Tahoe Summit scheduled for Tuesday at Sand Harbor State Park. “Environmental gains and economic gains are inextricably linked,” said Dennis Oliver, spokesman for […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Alfred Villalobos, a sometimes pugnacious businessman with a troubled financial history, wasn’t an obvious candidate to charm his way into the inner circle of America’s largest public pension fund. Though he had served three years on the CalPERS board in the 1990s, he wasn’t a universally popular figure. When he […]
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By Todd Woody, New York Times LEMOORE — Thousands of acres of farmland here in the San Joaquin Valley have been removed from agricultural production, largely because the once fertile land is contaminated by salt buildup from years of irrigation. Green But large swaths of those dry fields could have a valuable new use in […]
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