By Laura Parker, New York Times Forget slot machines and money wheels. American casinos may soon look more like video game arcades. In February, Nevada and New Jersey passed legislation allowing for the introduction of skill-based games in casinos as a way to draw in younger players. Imagine “Angry Birds” and “Candy Crush” machines next […]
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A six-day trial ended with El Dorado County winning a discrimination case brought forward by retired sheriff’s Detective Rick Fitzgerald. It took the eight jurors in U.S. District Court in Sacramento three hours to deliberate before rendering the verdict. Fitzgerald filed the complaint in January 2013. He said he was the victim of age discrimination, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jeremy Meyers, the disgraced ex-superintendent of El Dorado County Office of Education, was hired this week to work even closer with children. The Black Oak Mine Unified School District board in Georgetown on July 6 voted 4-0 (Darcy Knight was absent) to hire Meyers on a 90-day contract to be principal of […]
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Bryan Sperlin, 24, of Truckee was arrested July 8 on voluntary manslaughter charges. Police officers said he was involved in a deadly assault that occurred in the downtown Commercial Row area of Truckee on June 18. Jesse Hill, 39, of Chico died of his injuries at Renown Medical Center in Reno on July 3. Hill was found […]
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By Kathryn Reed In a split vote, the Placer County Planning Commission said no to the developer who wants to build 760 units on 6.6 acres near Brockway Summit. Sierra Pacific Industries owns the land, with Mountainside Partners the developers. The development would be just outside the Lake Tahoe Basin. Commissioners on July 7 voted […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal When the doors open to the world’s largest gaming convention in September in Las Vegas, it should come as no surprise that politics will be high on people’s minds. The three-day Global Gaming Expo, known in the industry as G2E, begins at the Sands Expo and Convention Center […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – People need to decide if they want the status quo or to make the investment. That was the overriding message South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry delivered July 6 to Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe. Pictures told the story as much as her words. A collage of where […]
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By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun A top-to-bottom reorganization of the Clark County School District. A program that allows the state to take over struggling schools. The most sweeping school choice program of any state in the country. Nevada suffers no shortage of programs concocted by lawmakers to improve education, but will any of them […]
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By Science Daily Droughts in California are mainly controlled by wind, not by the amount of evaporated moisture in the air, research has found. The findings were published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, on June 30. The research increases the understanding of how the water cycle is related to […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt It took a year for Placerville Historic Preservation League to be told it lost the challenge to stop the El Dorado County courthouse project in Placerville from proceeding. San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Garrett L. Wong on July 1 denied the writ that was submitted by the group in July 2015 […]
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