By David Leonhardt, New York Times The behavior gap between rich and poor children, starting at very early ages, is now a well-known piece of social science. Entering kindergarten, high-income children not only know more words and can read better than poorer children but they also have longer attention spans, better-controlled tempers and more sensitivity […]
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Enough El Dorado County employees are so unhappy with their work environment it prompted the Board of Supervisors to launch an investigation. Non-equal employment opportunity violations will be looked into. Sixty-three percent of the staff participated in the cultural assessment survey conducted by Van Dermyden Maddux Law Corporation. Out of the 1,228 current and former […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers have released photos from the surveillance video of the four suspects in the April 29 burglary at Simpson’s Jewelers. The full story is here.
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Nineteen people on the South Shore face charges from an April 30 undercover sting by the the California Contractors State License Board and Nevada State Contractors Board. Dubbed Border Blitz, it snared 11 people on the California side for illegal contracting charges and eight in Nevada. Three caught in Nevada are licensed contractors in California. […]
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By Tony Biasotti, Columbia Journalism Review It’s been a routine for generations of legal beat reporters: Every weekday afternoon, at courthouses across the United States, a reporter steps behind the records counter and thumbs through the lawsuits filed that day, looking for news. This custom is endangered, though, and not just because files have moved […]
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By Mike Gorrell, Salt Lake Tribune The CEOs of Park City Mountain Resort and Vail Resorts are engaging in a public war of words that parallels the high-profile lawsuit between the Park City-area ski giants. John Cumming from Powdr Corp., PCMR’s parent company, fired the latest shot Friday in response to two letters sent in […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Taking the witness stand in defense of her husband, the wife of El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting testified Thursday that the embattled supervisor didn’t solicit county employees to bail himself out of jail. Jennifer Nutting’s testimony in the politically charged case challenged the prosecution’s assertion that her husband violated […]
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A check of sex offenders to make sure they were complying with the law led to four arrests in South Lake Tahoe on April 29. Officers went to six residences and made contact with four people. All four were arrested. Gary Meyer, 68, on charges of not living at his registered address. This is a […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – Soft, dry soil. It makes measuring snow rather easy. There is none. The last snow survey of the season by the Department of Water Resources on May 1 turned up no snow at the field next to the entrance of Sierra-at-Tahoe and little snow at the other surveys. Statewide […]
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By Kathryn Reed VERDI – Owners of Boomtown casino have taken an aging property and revamped it a bit. The property off Interstate 80 on the outskirts of Reno turns 50 this year. M1 Gaming bought the 318-room hotel, and casino with 15 table games and 560 slot machines from Pinnacle Entertainment in June 2012 […]
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