By Patricia Cohen, New York Times To many photographers, a federal appeals court ruling last spring that permitted Richard Prince to use someone else’s photographs in his art was akin to slapping a “Steal This” label on their work. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reasoned that as long as Prince’s work […]
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By NPR The Lodo Wellness Center in Denver has been selling medical marijuana for several years. But since Jan. 1, when marijuana in Colorado officially moved from underground to behind-the-counter, they’ve also been selling legal, recreational pot. A majority of Americans now say they support full legalization, and the trend is spreading: Legal weed is […]
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A 27-year-old hiker on Mount Rose had to be rescued by helicopter on Sunday. He was with a group that slept on the mountain the night before. Their plan was to go the summit Sunday morning. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies, who have not released the man’s name, said he slid about 100 yards off the […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Anyone who has lived in Lake Tahoe for a while has heard stories of the impending tsunami if an earthquake occurs. In reality, those stories may not be too far off. And the earthquake may not be either. The California Geological Survey has been taking a closer look at the West Tahoe […]
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By Coral Davenport, New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama’s annual budget request to Congress will propose a significant change in how the government pays to fight wildfires, administration officials said, a move that they say reflects the ways in which climate change is increasing the risk for and cost of those fires. The wildfire […]
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By Conor Shine, Las Vegas Sun Major progress is expected in the coming year toward resolving the outstanding questions and legal challenges surrounding Yucca Mountain’s potential as a repository for the country’s high-level nuclear waste, members of the state Legislature were told during an interim committee hearing Friday. During a four-hour hearing, a range of […]
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By Hannah Dreier, AP When Springfield, Mass., needed to choose who would build its first casino, the city hired an outside adviser to help with the process. The consulting firm Shefsky & Froelich recommended the deal go to MGM Resorts International. At the same time, the consulting firm also was working as a registered lobbyist […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — The head of the government’s $70 million wild-horse management program warned last summer that it is headed for financial collapse unless “drastic changes” are made in the decades-old roundup policy she said could be setting U.S. rangeland-improvement goals back 20 years. In a strongly worded internal memo to an […]
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By Robert D. Dávila, Sacramento Bee Tom Sullivan, a dedicated public servant who advocated for treatment services as mental health director for El Dorado and Sacramento counties, died Feb. 7 after a recent stroke, his family said. He was 71. Mr. Sullivan was a widely recognized expert on mental health policy in California. He began […]
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By Kathryn Reed In many ways it’s an emergency room or intensive care unit that flies. Calstar – or California Shock Trauma Air Rescue – has a base at Lake Tahoe Airport that makes runs down to Mammoth, far into Nevada, up to Quincy and over to Georgetown. But much of the work the pilots […]
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