By Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post The nation’s first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags will not go into effect this summer after all. The California secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday that a referendum to overturn the measure has qualified for the November 2016 ballot. The state confirmed that the trade group American Progressive Bag […]
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By Ana Ley, Las Vegas Sun Nevada represented both sides of the country’s immigration debate on Wednesday at separate events discussing President Obama’s stalled immigration deal. In Washington, D.C., Attorney General Adam Laxalt spoke before the House Judiciary Committee to defend his controversial decision to bring Nevada into a lawsuit against the president’s executive action granting […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Amid stubborn drought conditions, more Californians are warming to the prospect of government-imposed mandatory water rationing, but a majority still favor the state’s current approach of urging residents to voluntarily curtail their water use. Support for rationing swelled to more than a third of voters in the latest statewide Field […]
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By Kathryn Reed She wheels around what looks like an oversized briefcase. It’s heavy. People ask why she does it. Her answer – it’s her office. This is Julie Ewing’s reality. For 12 years she has been an adjunct faculty member in Lake Tahoe Community College’s English Department. As such, she doesn’t have an office […]
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By Jonathan Mahler and Emily Steel, New York Times Hours after the news broke that Brian Williams had misrepresented his account of a helicopter trip in Iraq, he issued an on-air apology. NBC News started an investigation, and within days had suspended Williams, calling his actions “wrong and completely inappropriate.” When the magazine Mother Jones […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Seven medical specialty societies, the American Bar Association and the American Public Health Association on Monday joined forces to declare gun-related injuries, which annually kill an average of 32,000 Americans and harm nearly twice that number, “a public health crisis” that should be studied and solved “free of political […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Abbey Murphy never felt the mosquito bite that eventually swelled her brain and left her unable to walk for weeks. “I had uncontrollable vomiting, severe migraines,” said Murphy, a sophomore at UC Berkeley. “I couldn’t get up to get breakfast.” Murphy eventually recovered from her West Nile virus infection, though […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Conservative Assemblyman Ira Hansen wants to prohibit licensed Nevada contractors from hiring people who are in the country illegally. The Sparks Republican is the sponsor of Assembly Bill 133, which would require the state Contractors’ Board to investigate and take disciplinary action against contractors who knowingly […]
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By Kate Schimel, High Country News When Jim Stimson first spotted a fire burning 20 miles northwest of Bishop, California, on Feb. 6, he didn’t think much of it. Stimson, a 40-year resident of the area and a local photographer, was leading a workshop in the hills outside of town. He couldn’t remember the last […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mental health issues are a problem for educators, law enforcement, medical professionals and others. The illness tends to permeate nearly every facet of the population and not always in ways that are obvious. When Barton Health conducted its Community Health Needs Assessment in 2012 mental health was one of the three priorities that […]
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