Skilled nursing facilities throughout California are cautiously optimistic about their future with this week’s 17-0 bipartisan vote that would reverse Medi-Cal cuts to health care providers. Assembly Bill 900 was before the Assembly Health Committee on April 30. Now it goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and then to the full Assembly. If AB900 were […]
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By John Kell, Wall Street Journal CVS Caremark Corp. said its quarterly earnings rose 23 percent despite flat revenue, as strong demand for new generic drugs bolstered its bottom line. The drugstore retailer and pharmacy-benefits manager has now reported better-than-expected earnings for five consecutive quarters. Chief Executive and President Larry Merlo said the latest quarter […]
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By Bloomberg News Marriott International, the largest publicly traded U.S. hotel chain, said first-quarter earnings rose 31 percent as demand increased from business travelers in such U.S. cities as New York. Net income climbed to $136 million, or 43 cents a share, from $104 million, or 30 cents, a year earlier, the Bethesda-based company said […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment narrowed its losses during the first quarter but still saw revenue fall 2.9 percent, from $2.21 billion to $2.14 billion, and experienced a net loss of $216.7 million. The company, which operates 13 Nevada casinos, including two in Stateline, and eight in Las Vegas that are […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Placerville police are investigating a possible link between an alleged kidnapping in the city this morning and Saturday’s fatal stabbing of a an 8-year-old girl in Calaveras County. “We have no confirmed nexus to the Calaveras County case,” said Placerville police Capt. Mike Scott. But he said Placerville officers have […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a few stories about construction planned for the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. By Kathryn Reed While Nevada state highway officials are well aware of the condition of Kingsbury Grade, it’s going to be another year before that stretch of road in Lake Tahoe gets any more attention. Also […]
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By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post Like a pitcher taking the mound on opening day, Frank Gehrke gets the spotlight in California every early April. That’s when the otherwise obscure state water official trudges into the Sierra Nevada mountains, media in tow, and plunges aluminum tubes into the snow. With those snow samples — and historical […]
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By Susan Ferriss and Ben Wieder, Center for Public Integrity As the national debate grows louder over deploying police in schools, the largest state in the union – California – is considering a bill that would require schools to set “clear guidelines” defining the role of school police and limit their involvement in disciplinary matters. […]
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By James Gerken, Huffington Post Scientists monitoring global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations report that, for the first time in human history, CO2 levels could soon rise above 400 parts per million for a sustained period of time in much of the Northern Hemisphere. Hourly readings have surpassed 400 ppm in the past week, but daily […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt What bothered everyone present was the substantial loss of local representation and control, and the negative impacts on future funding for transportation and other projects that dissolution of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Compact would create. This was one of many topics at the April 29 joint meeting of the Douglas County […]
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