By Kathryn Reed For the first time in five years South Lake Tahoe’s budget is balanced without using reserves, cutting staff or cutting services. The $1 million ongoing deficit has been wiped off the books at least for the 2013-14 budget that will be presented to the City Council on Sept. 17. “It’s because we […]
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By Ryan Gabrielson, Center for Investigative Reporting California regulators routinely have conducted cursory and indifferent investigations into suspected violence and misconduct committed by hundreds of nursing assistants and in-home health aides – putting the elderly, sick and disabled at risk over the past decade. In 2009, the state Department of Public Health quietly ordered its […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee A bill to raise the minimum wage in California to $10 an hour raced forward at the Capitol on Wednesday, with Democratic lawmakers poised to approve the measure and Gov. Jerry Brown announcing he would sign it. The increase in the state’s minimum wage from $8 to $10 by 2016 […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun Firefighters and small businesses in Nevada and California have a simple request for the federal government. Pay up. They cleared brush, chopped down trees, and then submitted invoices in expectation that they’d be paid soon after. But that was more than two years ago, and they’re collectively still owed […]
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By Laila Kearney, Reuters SAN FRANCISCO – The city of San Francisco is suing the state of Nevada for busing patients, many of them indigent and mentally ill, from a public hospital in Las Vegas to the Bay Area without plans for continued care. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, seeks […]
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Former South Lake Tahoe police Officer Johnny Poland is going to prison for 18 months. The sentence came down Wednesday. Poland must turn himself in to the Bureau of Prison on Nov. 6. Poland had pleaded guilty in May to one count of obstruction of an official proceeding. The maximum sentence he could have received […]
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By Adam Nagourney, New York Times SACRAMENTO — A landmark law that has been a symbol of California’s tough environmental philosophy for more than 40 years is facing an unlikely challenge from Democrats, including Gov. Jerry Brown, who contend that regulations protecting the environment have been abused and are thwarting legitimate development. With the Legislature […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee State investigators have found unreported cases of an illicit program that let state parks employees trade leave time for cash and, despite extreme media and government scrutiny, “still has not done enough to prevent such practices from occurring,” according to an audit released Tuesday. The 43-page report sampled operations at […]
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By Kathryn Reed When classes start Sept. 23 at Lake Tahoe Community College officials hope to see a lot more students than last year. The budget the board approved Tuesday night is banking on it. Enrollment dropped dramatically last school compared to the previous year. The 2013-14 budget is calling for 1,750 fulltime equivalent students. […]
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By Catherine Van, KOLO-TV Too many Nevadans are going hungry. According to a study done by the U.S. Department of agriculture, Nevada is ranked No. 8 in the nation low food insecurity. The percentage of households in Nevada that faced food insecurity jumped from 9 percent to 16 percent in 10 years, which is the […]
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