By Robert Barnes, Washington Post On one of the busiest online-shopping days of the year, the Supreme Court declined Monday to get involved in state efforts to force Web retailers such as Amazon.com to collect sales tax from customers even in places where the companies do not have a physical presence. The multibillion-dollar issue — […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County supervisors are proceeding with buying the land for a courthouse in Placerville even though it is mired in controversy. On today’s meeting agenda is a closed session item to discuss allowing the county to go forward with negotiating buying property owned by John Briggs. He is the father of […]
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By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun Aaron Trujillo wasn’t expecting sticker shock when he started searching for an affordable day care center for his 1-year-old daughter last month. Trujillo, 30, and his wife both work for a Las Vegas apartment management company and make a combined $72,000 annually. When his wife returned to her job […]
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By Patti Neighmond, NPR When high school junior Nora Huynh got her report card, she was devastated to see that she didn’t get a perfect 4.0. Nora “had a total meltdown, cried for hours,” her mother, Jennie Huynh of Alameda says. “I couldn’t believe her reaction.” Nora is doing college-level work, her mother says, but […]
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By Matt Townsend, Bloomberg The first spending decline on a Black Friday weekend since 2009 reinforced projections for a lackluster holiday, increasing chances retailers will extend the deep discounts already hurting their profit margins. Purchases at stores and websites fell 2.9 percent to $57.4 billion during the four days beginning with the Nov. 28 Thanksgiving […]
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By Kathryn Reed Firefighting capabilities at Fallen Leaf Lake are not great, but they might get a little better soon. On the Dec. 7 community services district board’s agenda is a resolution supporting the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors’ proposal to fund a new pump for the fire boat. The current pumping capacity is […]
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The Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project continues to move forward. AT&T has completed the utility relocation work at the Bear Street intersection and all traffic control equipment has been removed from that site. For the next two weeks starting Dec. 2, road work will continue in the Kings Beach area near Plumas Bank. Highway […]
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By Stephanie Baker and Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg In August, Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to the Black Sea resort of Sochi, where his country is spending a record $48 billion on the 2014 Winter Olympics. A regular visitor, with an official residence in town, Putin watched mixed-martial-arts contests at Oblaka nightclub with Russian Prime Minister […]
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Truckee police detectives expect to soon forward the carbon monoxide death case to the Nevada County District Attorneys Office. Albert Senzatimore, 69, of San Jose and Gary Trovinger, 57, of Los Gatos died in October from carbon monoxide poisoning. The heater in the Tahoe Donner house Trovinger owned was the source of the gas, according […]
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By Kathryn Reed Five routes for a massive electrical line on the North Shore are being studied in the environmental documents that were released in November. CalPeco – short for California Pacific Electric Company – wants to strengthen its ability to provide power to that area. CalPeco is the parent company of Liberty Utilities, the […]
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