By Renee Dudley and Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg Katie Smith plans to spend $200 less on holiday gifts this year because of concerns that weak U.S. job growth will hurt her husband’s home-remodeling business. “We’ve scaled back,” said the 51-year-old project manager for Wake Forest University’s medical school as she perused cowboy boots for her 12-year-old […]
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By Reed Abelson, Katie Thomas and Jo Craven McGinty, New York Times As technical failures bedevil the rollout of President Obama’s health care law, evidence is emerging that one of the program’s loftiest goals — to encourage competition among insurers in an effort to keep costs low — is falling short for many rural Americans. […]
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By Adam Serwer, MSNBC A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana, a first in more than 40 years of Gallup polling the question. In 1969, when President Richard Nixon first directed significant federal resources toward interdicting marijuana smugglers at the U.S.-Mexico border, only 12 percent of Americans supported legalization. According to Gallup, 58 percent of […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – The problem with being able to come up with solutions for how to make the water along the shoreline of Lake Tahoe as pristine as the deep water is that there has been no monitoring done in the shallow areas. This means researchers have no data to study to […]
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Given Nevada’s current levels of employment and the potential for growth, the 2013 projections are for a statewide increase of 529,322 people in the next 20 years. The Nevada State Demographer’s Office at UNR released its most recent population projections through 2032. “As our state recovers, people should bear in mind that Nevada was hit […]
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By Randye Hoder, New York Times A decade or so ago, when it was time to send my children to preschool, it never occurred to me to do anything else. For an upper-middle-class family like mine, enrolling my kids in a half-day nursery school program with all of its benefits (socialization and school readiness, among […]
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By Kathryn Reed Connecting the dots of the South Shore is getting closer, but what the end picture will look like remains to be seen. Tuesday night was the third economic forum in the last year focusing on gathering people to discuss visions for the area and starting the dialog to be able implement ideas. […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — The congressional standoff that shut down the government and brought the country to the brink of defaulting on its debt may not have produced any winners, but polls, pundits and politicians from both sides of the aisle agree that the biggest political losers are Republican lawmakers. Yet, […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Rosanna Xia and Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times After the 1971 Sylmar earthquake, California began to map faults across the state. Over the next two decades, officials published 534 maps of active earthquake faults. New construction was prohibited on top of these fissures because previous quakes showed that buildings could be […]
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By Kathleen Miles, Huffington Post Nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of Californians support legalizing, regulating and taxing recreational marijuana in the state, according to a Tulchin Research poll. The figure, based on responses of 1,200 likely 2016 voters surveyed during the last two weeks, shows a “solid majority” back proposals to legalize adult recreational marijuana, the […]
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