Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Tom Davis Profession/work experience: Director of General Services for Heavenly Ski Resort; […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post Closing the achievement gap between low-income and affluent students could be as simple as do-re-mi. In a study out Tuesday from Northwestern University, researchers looked at the impact of music education on at-risk children’s nervous systems and found that music lessons could help them develop language and reading skills. The […]
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By Steve Janjic By all accounts, America’s emerging cannabis industry is shaping up to be the country’s biggest business experiment of the 21st century. But the mushrooming niche sector could quickly become an unnavigable morass of conflicting state and federal laws, with banks reluctant to touch the industry’s abundance of money and a patchwork of […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal A committee that advises the Nevada Tourism Commission on how to market the state to prospective winter visitors deadlocked on two votes over which company it wants to run the $1.75 million campaign. The committee on Friday heard pitches from two companies, Las Vegas-based B&P Advertising and Public […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters SACRAMENTO — The Pacific Ocean phenomenon called El Nino, which can lead to storms in the U.S. Southwest and other places, will likely start soon, but may not bring hoped-for relief to drought-parched California, U.S. government meteorologists said on Thursday. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a […]
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By Paloma Esquivel and Sandra Poindexter, Los Angeles Times California parents are deciding against vaccinating their kindergarten-age children at twice the rate they did seven years ago, a fact public health experts said is contributing to the reemergence of measles across the state and may lead to outbreaks of other serious diseases. The percentage of […]
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By Brian Nordli, Las Vegas Sun A study released Tuesday found that missing even a handful of days of school can cripple student achievement in the classroom. Researchers from Attendance Works, a national advocacy group, found that students who miss three days or more in the month before taking National Assessment for Educational Progress tests […]
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By Kathryn Reed On a 3-2 vote Thursday afternoon, the South Tahoe Public Utility District board approved a three-year contract for employees that calls for raises of at least 6 percent and up to 9 percent in that time period. Voting no were Chris Cefalu and Randy Vogelgesang. “I can do the 2 percent cost […]
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By Roger Harrabin, BBC Research from Cambridge and Aberdeen universities estimates greenhouse gases from food production will go up 80 percent if meat and dairy consumption continues to rise at its current rate. That will make it harder to meet global targets on limiting emissions. The study urges eating two portions of red meat and […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Wendy David Profession/work experience: Lake Tahoe Unified School District teacher’s aide 1975-1981, […]
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