By Ed Fletcher, Sacrament Bee A Placer County committee charged with distributing funds aimed at mitigating the effects of Indian gaming has been allocated $66,694 to distribute to local government agencies. The Placer County Indian Gaming Local Community Benefit Committee receives the money from a special state Controller’s fund aimed at offsetting the impact of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Vision. It’s what has kept Lake Tahoe Community College going for nearly 40 years. President Kindred Murillo credits those who four decades ago created the college – which started in a motel on Highway 50 – as well as those who brought it to its current location off Al Tahoe […]
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By Brian Joseph, Orange County Register Two new reports released in conjunction with Sunshine Week, a national initiative to promote open government, have found that it ain’t exactly sunny in California. The Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Sunlight Foundation gives the California Legislature a “D” grade for its efforts to make bill and vote data available online. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel, aka Embassy Suites South Lake Tahoe, has changed its tune. Instead of keeping all 220 employees, there will be about a 5 percent reduction in staff. On March 1 all employees were told how the 400-room hotel was dropping its affiliation with Hilton and instead the owners would […]
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The class of 2019 is dictating, to some extent, the curriculum that is being offered in Lake Tahoe Unified School District. Some of today’s fifth-graders back in 2007 were the first two-way immersion class at Bijou Community School. What started as a parent movement led by Kathy Haven turned into a much sought-after program. Parents […]
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By Kevin Sullivan, Washington Post The Obama administration, along with the U.S. travel and tourism industry, is spending millions of dollars this year to lure foreign visitors. A “Discover America” campaign includes television commercials in nine nations; ads on the Tokyo subway; banners in London and Vancouver, B.C.; Facebook pages in Portuguese and German; and […]
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By Rachel Weber, Game Industry International Frank Christopher Olivera, former vice president of corporate communications and public affairs at Gamestop Texas, has been sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for defrauding the company. Olivera invented a company, Cloud Communications LLC, and used it to steal over $1.7 million from GameStop, using fake invoices and […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN — Barton Health and Douglas County are in talks to locate an orthopedic center of excellence in Kahle Park. Barton approached the county with the idea and this week the Douglas County Board of Commissioners approved a letter of intent allowing county personnel to explore a possible project in Stateline, according […]
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Five misdemeanor charges have been filed against a Carson City bounty hunter in regards to his actions in South Lake Tahoe. Douglas Lewis with Justin Brothers Bail Bonds has been charged with unlawful arrest, aggravated trespass, vandalism, battery and damaging a vehicle. The incident occurred in October at the South Lake Tahoe home of Ty […]
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By Kirk Johnson, New York Times The Boy Scouts of America is reaching out to parents and scouts as it decides whether to continue or rescind the group’s ban on gay members and leaders. Surveys went out in recent days to 1.1 million scouts and their families around the nation. The questionnaire goes far beyond […]
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