By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post When a student at Elliston Elementary in rural Montana logs onto her laptop for a remote lesson over the Internet, Tressa Graveley must ration the Web for the rest of her tiny school. The teacher tells other students to shut down their browsers and stop streaming video or there won’t […]
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Two men have been accused of illegally killing a bear in El Dorado County. Jason Wilkison, 43, of Grass Valley and Christoppher Nunley, 54, of North San Juan in April allegedly used bait to lure a bear to a house near Grizzly Flats where it was shot. They face felony weapons charges and misdemeanor charge […]
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By William Selway & Jim Efstathiou Jr., Bloomberg President Obama is pushing to raise the U.S. minimum wage higher than $7.25 an hour — the rate it’s been for four years. Half of the U.S. population won’t have to wait: They live in places where the bottom rate is already higher than that. Twenty-one states […]
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By Martha C. White, Time It’s because college kids today can’t do math, one line of reasoning goes. Or they don’t know science. Or they’re clueless about technology, aside from their myriad social-media profiles. These are all good theories, but the problem with the unemployability of these young adults goes way beyond a lack of […]
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By Mammoth Times A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Sunday after leaving the scene of a car accident that same afternoon in Mammoth. Officers found a full size pickup with fresh collision damage, two flat tires and a damaged road sign. Mammoth Lakes police officers said Brian Bogdanoff, 32, of South Lake Tahoe, fled […]
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By Karen Farkas, Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio – The number of international students attending U.S. colleges continues to grow, and about a third are from China, according to a report issued this week. In the 2012-13 school year, 235,597 of the 819,644 international students on U.S. campuses, or 28.7 percent, arrived from China, according to […]
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By Natasha Singer, New York Times At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout the presentation, she apparently posted disparaging comments on Twitter about her fellow attendees, repeatedly using a common expletive. Perhaps she hadn’t […]
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In a desire to raise money, financially unstable ski resort operator Intrawest Resorts Holdings Inc. on Tuesday filed an initial public offering with the New York Stock Exchange. The Denver-based company built the Village at Squaw Valley and owned it until January 2010. That was the year Intrawest started unloading property to remain solvent. (KSL, […]
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A 15-year-old Shingle Springs girl has been found safe after having been missing since the first of the month. Juliet Riffey was located unharmed near Cameron Park on Monday. Someone called 911 to say they had seen her. Then authorities located her. El Dorado County sheriff’s detectives have ruled out any criminal involvement and are […]
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By Steven Miller, Nevada Journal The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is winning national awards from government-planning professionals, but among homeowners in the five counties surrounding Lake Tahoe, it’s the least popular local government agency of all. Seventy percent of homeowners in the Lake Tahoe Basin said TRPA would not take their concerns very seriously and […]
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