By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe is one step closer to improving environmental education in the basin for locals and visitors. It all started about a year ago when the California Tahoe Conservancy gave the Tahoe Fund an $85,000 grant to delve into what visitors’ centers should look like in the future. For Amy Berry, executive […]
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By Hayley Miller, Huffington Post In an effort to combat income inequality, Portland on Thursday became the first jurisdiction to adopt a tax penalty on companies with excessive CEO-worker pay gaps. Under the new law, companies doing enough business in Portland to pay the city’s business fee will be taxed an additional 10 percent if […]
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By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada casinos are kicking out and banning more people from their floors than possibly ever before. “Definitely in the last four years we’ve seen what I would consider a bit of an uptick in individuals that we put on the Excluded Persons List (commonly referred to as the Black Book),” […]
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Updated 4:56pm: By Kathryn Reed A skier who went into closed terrain at Mt. Rose ski resort Saturday has not been heard from since about 10:15am. A pair of 60-something year old men hiked up to the chutes area of the resort on Dec. 10. One friend saw the other disappear into what he told […]
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Updated Dec. 12: By Kathryn Reed One of the eyesores entering Kings Beach will be gone by this time in 2018, according to the CTC. Placer County with state funds funneled to it via the California Tahoe Conservancy is planning to purchase two parcels on the corner of highways 28 and 267. An automotive shop […]
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An El Dorado Hills woman is going to prison for two years for filing false IRS claims. Sherry Taggart, 57, was also ordered to pay $757,412. She had pleaded guilty to multiple charges in September. According to court documents, in 2010 Taggart joined a scheme initiated in 2008 and operated by her co-conspirator Barbara Antonucci, […]
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By Sarah D. Wire and Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Over Sen. Barbara Boxer’s objections, the Senate voted 78 to 21 Friday evening to pass sweeping water infrastructure legislation that changes how much water is pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to San Joaquin Valley farmers and Southern California. The bill — co-authored by […]
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By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post For the first time in more than two decades, life expectancy for Americans declined last year — a troubling development linked to a panoply of worsening health problems in the United States. Rising fatalities from heart disease and stroke, diabetes, drug overdoses, accidents and other conditions caused the lower life […]
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By Wynne Davis, NPR Fake news stories can have real-life consequences. On Sunday, police said a man with a rifle who claimed to be “self-investigating” a baseless online conspiracy theory entered a Washington, D.C., pizzeria and fired the weapon inside the restaurant. So, yes, fake news is a big problem. These stories have gotten a […]
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By Keith Rogers, Las Vegas Review-Journal HONOLULU — Resting at the bottom of the Pacific but very much alive in naval history books, the storied battleship USS Nevada received fresh accolades Thursday aimed at ensuring that she and her crew continue “inspiring sailors for as long as there is a United States Navy.” On a […]
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