By Matt Levin, CalMatters Lifelong Californian Lori Thompson is well aware of the state’s dire affordable housing problem. She’s just wondering why she’s the one who has to pay to fix it. After her daughter moved to Reno to escape high rents in the Monterey Peninsula, Thompson and her husband decided last December to purchase […]
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By Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times A Harvard-educated former attorney was sentenced to 40 years in prison for kidnapping a woman in a case that police in Vallejo once portrayed as a hoax. The case cast a harsh light on not only the suspect, Matthew Muller, but also the Vallejo Police Department. Muller, 39, pleaded […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Days after South Lake Tahoe officials were celebrating the acquisition of the Knights Inn property, the Champagne has gone flat thanks to the California Tahoe Conservancy board. The city was back before the state board on March 16 to finalize its request to obtain grant dollars that would fund […]
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Douglas County is on a path to not allow recreational marijuana. Planning commissioners on March 14 ruled that retail dispensaries, cultivation, testing, product manufacturing and distribution facilities will not be allowed. This does not affect the use of marijuana. Nevada voters last fall approved recreational marijuana. However, Douglas voters were against it. The measure allowed […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee California exports more than commodities such as movies, new technologies and produce. It also exports truck drivers, cooks and cashiers. Every year from 2000 through 2015, more people left California than moved in from other states. This migration was not spread evenly across all income groups, a Sacramento Bee review […]
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By Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette-Journal Federal agents arrested 25 people in Reno during a week-long operation that targeted illegal immigrants. In total, 61 foreigners from six countries were arrested. Of that total, 55 people had criminal histories. That includes prior convictions for sex crimes, drug offenses and domestic violence, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs […]
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By Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times To meet the bold new climate change goals put in place last year, California will work to put millions of electric cars on the road, revolutionize its dairy industry and generate half of all power from solar panels and other renewable sources. But those efforts will come up […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal A series of kerfuffles involving politicians’ emails has sparked a nationwide call for elected officials to embrace transparency. But members of the Nevada Legislature show no intention of opening their records to the public. The Legislature tells governmental agencies statewide what is and is not a public record. But […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District is doing everything it can to help families who feel threatened by the federal government’s attack on immigrants. “We are going to follow the law. We all know if a child is going to come to school afraid, they aren’t going to learn,” board member Larry Reilly […]
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South Tahoe High School will have a new principal next school year. On Tuesday night the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education accepted Chad Houck’s resignation. Houck has been in a tenuous position for about a year; ever since the school received a two-year probationary accreditation last spring. When the district learned last […]
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