By Anita Creamer, Sacramento Bee Seniors First, the nonprofit agency that administers Placer County’s federally funded seniors programs, lost its contract late last week to deliver meals to more than 100 homebound seniors. The Area 4 Agency on Aging board instead awarded the Meals on Wheels contract for the Placer suburbs and foothills communities to […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s politicians are assembling stockpiles of money, the ammunition for this year’s election campaign season. They will report millions of dollars in campaign contributions this week on annual disclosure forms, but that’s just the money elected officials are required to report. As in the 2012 election, groups unaffiliated with […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. There are traditional mountain passes that close for the bulk of the winter. Monitor Pass is usually among those. However, this […]
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By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times An updated national report on U.S. emergency medical care has again awarded California an F for lacking access to speedy treatment, noting that the state has the fewest hospital emergency rooms per capita — 6.7 per 1 million people — in the nation. The America’s Emergency Care Environment report […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Looks like Rep. Tom McClintock will get a challenge from the left. Democrat Kris Johnson plans to run in the Republican-dominated 4th Congressional District. The Granite Bay resident filed the necessary paperwork to run just days after news anchor Walt Gray ended speculation that he would mount an independent campaign […]
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By Elizabeth Dwoskin, Wall Street Journal Fan Zhang, the owner of Happy Child, a trendy Asian restaurant in downtown Toronto, knows that 170 of his customers went clubbing in November. He knows that 250 went to the gym that month, and that 216 came in from Yorkville, an upscale neighborhood. Businesses are tracking their customers […]
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By KTVN-TV A woman has been shot at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center in Carson City. Sheriff Ken Furlong tells Channel 2 News the shooting happened at 11:30 Sunday morning. The shooting happened on the 3rd floor of the hospital. That floor is currently sealed off as officials investigate. Read the whole story
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By Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Forbes Aaron Mandell, founder and chairman of WaterFX, looks at California’s water issue like a classic entrepreneur. Where others see problems, he sees opportunity for improvement and profit. And that opportunity is huge. It is common knowledge that access to clean water is a mounting problem across the globe. However, few places […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. The Napa Valley Wine Train is trying to benefit from Lake Tahoe’s lackluster snowfall. A press release says, “To put those […]
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By Campbell Robertson, New York Times BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations of deep corruption and wide-ranging conspiracy. Some of these allegations he has tested in court, having […]
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