By Seth Borenstein, AP PARIS — This time, it’s a hotter, waterier, wilder Earth that world leaders are trying to save. The last time that the nations of the world struck a binding agreement to fight global warming was 1997, in Kyoto, Japan. As leaders gather for a conference in Paris on Monday to try […]
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By Chris Mooney, Washington Post ELEUTHERA, Bahamas — Standing atop a 60-foot cliff overlooking the Atlantic, James Hansen — the retired NASA scientist sometimes dubbed the “father of global warming” — examines two small rocks through a magnifying glass. Towering above him is the source of one of the shards: a huge boulder from a pair […]
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By Kimberly Pierceall, AP Casino giant Caesars Entertainment is appealing a bankruptcy court ruling that could put it on the hook for nearly $364 million. That’s the amount a pension fund wants Caesars to pay in installments for 20 years after the company’s largest subsidiary filed for bankruptcy protection in January. The National Retirement Fund, […]
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By Wayne Parry, AP ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Internet gambling is slowly growing — but not expanding — after 2 1/2 years of online betting in the United States. Online gambling revenue is increasing in at least two of the three states that currently offer it — New Jersey and Delaware. The third, Nevada, doesn’t […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee CalPERS on Tuesday released long-anticipated figures on how much it pays the companies that manage its private-equity investments: more than $1 billion in the latest fiscal year. Pension fund officials said CalPERS earned a $4.1 billion profit from those investments. The release came after the California Public Employees’ Retirement System […]
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By Rick Hampson, USA Today NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A decade ago, when 5,000 settlers a month were arriving in this valley, the suburban frontier moved out into the desert so fast the ZIP codes couldn’t keep up. Then came the financial crisis, and the frontier stopped at places like the back fence of 4132 […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada residents may soon be able to proclaim their support for the right to life for unborn children by requesting a special license plate from the Department of Motor Vehicles. The Nevada “Values Life” vanity license plate was approved last month by a panel of lawmakers serving […]
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By Daniela Gerson, Los Angeles Times Priscilla Farinas, an English teacher at Social Justice Humanitas Academy in San Fernando, faced her 31 students recently and made an announcement that seemingly violates official Los Angeles Unifiedpolicy. “This is the one and only time I will have you take out your cellphones,” she said, instructing the students […]
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By Pauline Bartolone, CalMatters After a day of picking grapes for $9.25 an hour, Eva Montes waits in line for food aid in the parking lot of the Veterans Memorial building in Earlimart, a community of 8,537 people. “You can’t make enough money for what you spend,” Montes says in Spanish while waiting with other […]
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By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness The Pacific Ocean is warm. Very warm. Last week, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center announced temperatures reached 5.6 Fahrenheit above normal in a key section of the Pacific called Nino 3.4, touching off a Twitter typhoon among some El Nino watchers alarmed that they were so high. Monday, the agency […]
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