By Rosanna Xia and Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times Hours after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake destroyed buildings and took lives in Taiwan, four state lawmakers said they want California to help fund an earthquake early warning system that has been stalled by a lack of money. “There’s no valid reason not to make this […]
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By Melanie Mason and Jeff McDonald, Los Angeles Times State legislators are calling for a major overhaul of California’s utilities regulator by striking it from the state Constitution and reassigning its sprawling portfolio in the wake of a series of controversies, including the natural gas leak in Aliso Canyon. Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, said […]
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By Tami Luhby, CNN The once-strong middle class no longer dominates America. Middle class Americans now comprise less than half, or 49.9 percent, of the nation’s population, down from 61 percent in 1971, according to a Pew Research Center report. For Pew, middle class Americans live in households earning between two-thirds to two times the […]
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By Kathryn Reed After months of threatening to sue the city of South Lake Tahoe, the parents of the man who was fatally shot by a police officer have done so. Attorney Alan Laskin filed the wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit in federal court in Sacramento. His office closes at 3pm on Fridays, so […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Hard Rock owners are selling half of their interest in the Stateline property to an organization out of Las Vegas. Representatives were before the Gaming Control Board this week regarding money issues, which comes days after having another lawsuit filed against the troubled Stateline casino. Tentative approval was given to […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada doubled down on diversification as the state awarded more than $620,000 dollars for workforce training that targets key industries, including jobs for Tesla Motors’ Gigafactory. The Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation and Technology announced the second round of its challenge grants on Thursday, awarding six recipients a total of $626,206 […]
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By Kathryn Reed Investigators determined that the chair that fell off the North Bowl chairlift at Heavenly Mountain Resort was the result of collar screws that attach the chair to the cable splitting and shearing in half. “There was nothing found that pointed to why the screws failed,” Lisa Herron with the U.S. Forest Service […]
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By Kathryn Reed Customers in South Tahoe Public Utility District have done a good job in conserving water, but cumulatively have not met the state’s 20 percent reduction goal. This week officials announced that the restrictions would remain in effect through October. In April 2015, Gov. Jerry Brown said combined water districts in the state must […]
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By Mike Luery, KCRA-TV There’s a big push in California to offer free tuition to all community college students in the state. But offering free tuition for California’s more than 1 million full-time community college students is expensive. California community college tuition fees are in the $1,100 range per year — among the lowest in […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun A group filed a ballot measure Feb. 3 that would create a competitive electricity market in Nevada to effectively end NV Energy’s monopoly through a constitutional amendment. The amendment would require the Legislature to create an open market for purchasing electricity and prohibit monopolies, according to language released by the […]
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