By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee California state government continues to struggle with plans for replenishing its aging workforce, according to a new report released Monday, chiefly because departments talk a good game but largely fail to follow through. Nearly 41 percent of state employees are age 50 or older, State Auditor Elaine Howle noted in […]
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By Kathryn Reed The public was all but missing from Thursday night’s public hearing regarding the 2015-16 South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District meeting. Two people attended the meeting, with one person getting a tutorial in how the district works based on the one-on-staff dialogue he had. The board is expected to approve the budget […]
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By Kathryn Reed Pamela Knorr is proving to be a financial liability for her employers — aka the taxpayers. First it was Alpine County, now it is El Dorado County. On July 3, 2012, Knorr signed a five-year contract to be CAO of Alpine County at a rate of pay of $11,757 per month. She also received […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post The snowless winter in California overwhelmed the snowy East to yield the ski resort industry’s second worst season in 16 years. Resorts across the U.S. saw visits fall to 53.6 million, according to a preliminary count by the National Ski Areas Association. While it wasn’t as bad as the 2011-12 season, […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment, the casino giant that controls Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and Harveys in Stateline, reported its first-quarter earnings Wednesday. Revenue: $2.2 billion, up 8.8 percent from the first quarter of last year. That includes financial results from the company’s division Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., which filed for bankruptcy on […]
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By Kathryn Reed A skipper with 30 years of experience on Lake Tahoe was barely able to make it to shore safely on Wednesday because of the 4 to 8 foot waves. Mike Young of Incline Village left Obexer’s in Homewood about 2pm May 6 destined for Incline Village, but wound up at Camp Richardson […]
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Two people were taken to the hospital Wednesday for smoke inhalation and 200 others evacuated from MontBleu casino in Stateline when a fire erupted in the main kitchen. The cause of the May 6 blaze is under investigation. “One of their commercial ovens had a fire and it had about 4-foot-by-8-foot flames coming out of […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau MEYERS – More than 100 people packed into the auditorium of the Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School on Wednesday evening for the Meyers Area Plan open house. Large tables encircled the room offering seven workstations for attendees to visit. Each station represented a key topic related to the plan: design and […]
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By Laura Colby, BloombergBusiness More than half of U.S. eighth-graders say Americans believe the U.S. government should guarantee them a job when they grow up. That’s one of the findings of a federal test of children’s knowledge of history, civics and geography. Only 32 percent correctly answered the question about a belief shared by most […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A man and a woman were arrested on drug-related charges after deputies searched a trailer near Georgetown. Deputies came to the trailer in the 5000 block of Reservoir Road in a rural area outside Georgetown Sunday to serve a felony arrest warrant on 28-year-old Lainey Porter. When they arrived, they […]
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