By Marilyn Geewax, KQED-TV On Thursday, President Obama rolled out his plan for strengthening overtime pay protections for millions of workers. In his view, if more workers got fatter paychecks, they could spend more and stimulate the economy. But if his critics are right, then employers would end up laying off workers to make up […]
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By Kathryn Reed Eyes swollen? Nose running? It’s allergy season in Tahoe and technically it’s not even spring. Mother Nature apparently has her own calendar. Trees are flowering in the Lake Tahoe Basin, bulbs are sprouting and some early bloomers are shining through. According to the Weather Channel, the pollen forecast for today on the […]
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By AP Nevada County prosecutors have filed manslaughter charges against a Truckee-based contractor whose negligence they say produced the carbon monoxide that killed two men at a home north of Lake Tahoe last fall. Assistant District Attorney Anna Ferguson said 41-year-old Kurt Schoemig was charged Monday with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. She said in […]
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By Conor Shine, Las Vegas Sun Ever look around at the signs of recovery here — the construction and rebound in travel and tourism — and wonder why it doesn’t feel like the recession has ended for you? There’s a reason: It hasn’t in terms of wages in Nevada. But the slow increase in most […]
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Four people, including two South Lake Tahoe residents, were arrested this weekend in an operation targeting people buying alcohol for minors. Dubbed Shoulder Tap Decoy Operation, the March 15 event had more than 100 law enforcement agencies in the state involved. Arrested in South Lake Tahoe were: Stevie Smith, 23, from Pasadena; Harvey Hampton, 58, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Improving the circulation of traffic and pedestrians are major goals of a proposed project at the Tallac Historic Site on the South Shore. The U.S. Forest Service wants to get rid of the access point at Heritage Way that is across from Fallen Leaf Lake Road and the one at the Valhalla […]
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By Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee James Flavy Coy Brown, a homeless and mentally ill man allegedly “dumped” by Nevada’s primary psychiatric hospital via Greyhound bus into Sacramento last year, on Friday became the national face of a problem that experts said is widespread and should be curtailed by federal authorities. Brown’s story touched off a […]
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By Evan Halper and Cindy Carcamo, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The Obama administration handed backers of medical marijuana a significant victory Friday, opening the way for a University of Arizona researcher to examine whether pot can help veterans cope with post-traumatic stress, a move that could lead to broader studies into potential benefits of […]
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By Katherine Peralta, Bloomberg Jeanina Jenkins, a 20-year-old high-school graduate from St. Louis, is stuck in a $7.82-an-hour part-time job at McDonald’s Corp. that she calls a “last resort” because nobody would offer her anything better. Stephen O’Malley, 26, a West Virginia University graduate, wants to put his history degree to use teaching high school. […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP A rural Nevada county has settled lawsuits with two men who said a sheriff’s deputy violated their civil rights when they were stopped for speeding on Interstate 80, searched for drugs and forced to forfeit tens of thousands of dollars even though no drugs were found and no charges filed in […]
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