By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Washoe County voters have the last details of a record sales tax increase they’ll decide in November, and it wouldn’t be temporary. The ballot question, written by a group of community leaders, requests a permanent 8.265 percent countywide sales tax, which marks a new Nevada high over Clark County’s 8.15 percent […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – Burning Man can be the best and the worst experience of your life — “you can die out there.” Although Gary Johnson, an assistant professor and practicing doctor at UNR Medical School, said this with a bit of a tongue-in-cheek attitude, the doctor in him took over as he […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee When Oakland A’s executive Billy Beane found himself on the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s list of its biggest water users in October, he released a statement that he was “more than displeased and embarrassed by the usage” and promised to take “immediate action” to repair irrigation and pool leaks […]
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By Kim Komando, USA Today Facebook has changed the way people do a lot of things online. For example, you probably notice yourself reflexively clicking ‘like’ on anything your friends post on Facebook, even if it’s just to acknowledge you saw it. Scammers are taking advantage of that reflex for a dangerous scam called “like-farming.” […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Another former Sutter County employee is about to be on the payroll for El Dorado County. Marco Sandoval has been Sutter’s risk manager since 2008 and will have the same title with El Dorado County. Prior to being hired by Sutter County Sandoval was in the private sector doing the same type […]
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By CBS News In March 2011 the world watched in awe and horror as a colossal tsunami ravaged eastern Japan — the result of a 9.0 magnitude earthquake. Entire cities were washed away; millions were stranded without power or water; 15,000 died. It was an otherworldy event that happened thousands of miles away. Thank goodness, […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee California highway officials last week launched a clean water campaign, “Protect Every Drop” aimed reducing the amount of pollution that flows off of people’s cars into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean. “Clean water is essential for our quality of life in California, and it’s important to ‘Protect Every Drop’,” […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada’s emergency change to teacher licensing simplifies hiring in a state short on public school teachers, but it also opens the door to those who don’t meet basic expectations. An emergency regulation – approved a month ago by Gov. Brian Sandoval – allows the state to immediately license teachers who’ve never taught in […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau MEYERS – After years without anything even resembling one, Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District has put together a master plan for Tahoe Paradise Park. Well, at least a draft of one. The plan sets forth a number of goals and objectives not only for the purpose of managing the park more effectively, […]
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By Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post Legal marijuana may be doing at least one thing that a decades-long drug war couldn’t: taking a bite out of Mexican drug cartels’ profits. The latest data from the U.S. Border Patrol shows that last year, marijuana seizures along the southwest border tumbled to their lowest level in at least a decade. […]
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