By Alex Wayne and Alex Nussbaum, Bloomberg Health insurance under Obamacare will cost individuals at least $2,988 a year on average, a price that Republican opponents may target as out-of-reach for many Americans who don’t qualify for U.S. subsidies. While the $249 monthly payment is intended to be discounted through tax credits, less than half […]
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By UPI WASHINGTON — Despite U.S. women’s advancements, substantial inequalities remain with men, but disparities for women also exist among states, a nonprofit group says. A report by the Center for American Progress analyzed multiple factors — 36 factors overall — involving women. For example, women in Vermont make on average close to 85 cents […]
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By Mark Memmott, NPR Declaring that “human influence on the climate system is clear,” a U.N.-assembled panel of scientists reported Friday that “it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which brings together hundreds of researchers from […]
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And El Dorado Hills man is going to prison for committing 28-tax related felonies. A federal jury on Sept. 26 found Donald M. Wanland Jr. guilty of attempting to evade personal income taxes from 200-03, failing to file tax returns for 2005-07, and multiple counts of removing, depositing, and concealing assets from the IRS in […]
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By AP BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Vail Resorts’ fiscal fourth-quarter loss widened as some expenses rose. The loss was smaller than Wall Street expected but revenue missed expectations, and its shares slipped in premarket trading Friday. The ski resort operator lost $59.9 million, or $1.67 per share, for the three months ended July 31. That compares […]
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By J.D. Harrison, Washington Post Four months after the Senate approved a controversial bill requiring online merchants to start collecting sales tax, a pair of lawmakers have opened the debate in the House, but with one major change from the original legislation — no exemption for small businesses. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee UC Davis was chosen this week in a national competition to lead an $11 million federal study of how to reduce the impact America’s transportation system has on climate change – and to come up with ways to keep people moving when catastrophic climate events occur. The U.S. Department of […]
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By Tim Hearden, Capital Press SACRAMENTO — A judge’s recent preliminary ruling that California water rights fees are invalid has piqued the interest of a group suing the state over fees charged to rural landowners for fire prevention. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei agreed with petitioners that fees charged by the State Water […]
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By Tia Ghose, LiveScience Experimental forests that have been groomed to slow wildfires could reduce the frequency of catastrophic fires in the future, researchers say. The decade-long project to slow and contain forest fires could become a blueprint for fire management across California. The project, which was developed in an experimental forest at UC Berkeley’s […]
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A chimney fire caused substantial damage to a house in Tahoe Vista on Wednesday morning. The blaze on Winona Avenue moved into the attic. It took about 40 minutes for firefighters from multiple agencies to extinguish the blaze. In the afternoon crews were overhauling the structure and salvaging contents. North Tahoe Fire Prevention Bureau is […]
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