By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Count the analysts at Fitch Ratings Service as predicting 2016 to be a stable environment for most U.S. gaming operators. Few casino openings are planned that could tip the scales in saturated gaming markets. Discretionary spending by consumers remains on an upswing. Companies saddled with a hefty long-term debt — […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee The median price for a home in the high-end Lake Tahoe market climbed modestly in 2015, according to Nevada-based Chase International Real Estate. The median price increased 3 percent year-over-year to $490,000. Unit sales also increased 3 percent year-over-year. Chase said the South shore and Tahoe City areas saw the […]
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By Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times After one of the most destructive fire seasons in California history and with an eye toward the increased potential effects of climate change, Gov. Jerry Brown has proposed spending more on fighting wildfires than the state has in more than a decade. Brown’s $170.7 billion budget proposal includes a $719 million one-time […]
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By Philip Bump, Washington Post The Constitution, in one of its less explicit sections, mandates that the president shall “from time to time” give Congress his assessment of the state of the union, and offer ideas for what to do about it. Nearly every president has taken this literally, giving either an address (as is […]
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By Michael Wines and Jennifer Medina, New York Times FIVE POINTS — The message that Maria L. Gutierrez gave legislators on Capitol Hill was anguished and blunt: California’s historic drought had not merely left farmland idle. It had destroyed Latino farm workers’ jobs, shuttered Latino businesses and thrown Latino families on the street. Yet Congress […]
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By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun Technology in the classroom has come a long way. What started with a simple chalkboard has evolved into projectors, computers, tablets and now robots. If you go by what you see at CES, which kicked off Tuesday in convention centers on the Strip, the beeping, booping machines are the […]
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By Joseph Serna, Los Angeles Times There’s no way of telling how many people might lay claim to a $900-million Powerball jackpot Saturday night, but lottery officials insist that California schools will be among the winners. Thanks to a California law that requires at least $1 billion of the state’s education funding to come from lottery revenues — […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – To the untrained eye the three images looked practically they same. They showed the El Niño pattern from 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16. The first two brought crazy weather to Northern California and Northern Nevada. It’s usually the first quarter of the year where the moisture really starts to fall. “So […]
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By Kathryn Reed California’s nearly $700 million investment in Lake Tahoe is slowing down as evidenced by the governor’s proposed budget. The California Tahoe Conservancy is left out of any new funding. “Overall, the state of California has been historically — and will continue to be — committed to the restoration of Lake Tahoe, including […]
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Gilbert Wetenkamp, the South Lake Tahoe man accused of killing a bear in July, is seeking to have the trial moved to the West Slope. He was in court on Jan. 8. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury said she is not inclined to grant the motion, but told Wetenkamp’s public defender that he […]
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