By Kathryn Reed A unified anti-tax voice permeated the room as state Sen. Ted Gaines and Assemblyman Frank Bigelow spoke Friday to their constituents in South Lake Tahoe. The two Republican legislators meandered through the crowd at Riva Grill before each addressed the assembled guests. “We don’t need additional taxes, what we need is to […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee Placer County supervisors approved a plan Tuesday that is expected to keep many thousands of pounds of fine sediment from entering Lake Tahoe. The plan, to be submitted to the state Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, includes the use of coarser sand on roads this winter to improve […]
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By David DeBolt, Contra Costa Times The Concord City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to support emergency repairs at Camp Concord, avoiding a possible delay in the opening of the city-operated camp. The 5-0 vote declared an emergency at the Lake Tahoe facility and allowed interim City Manager Valerie Barone to execute a no-bid construction contract […]
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By Sarah Tilton, Wall Street Journal Venture capitalist Steven Stull and his wife, Claire, have paid $11.875 million for a waterfront home in Incline Village, according to public records. The roughly 10,000-square-foot home sits on 0.82 acre with 100 feet of shoreline. The house has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, an elevator, a wine […]
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By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times Rebecca Johnson was 27 years old and had just graduated from medical school when she got the diagnosis: breast cancer. She thought she was a rare case, but then a few of her friends got it too. So did some friends of friends. Was it all just a coincidence, […]
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Student activists organized by California Fair Share gathered at Rep. Tom McClintock’s district office in Granite Bay on Feb. 28 to call on him to stop the sequester by closing corporate tax loopholes. The students unfurled and gave the Republican congressman the 100-foot banner constructed from more than 600 petition signatures. “Hundreds of citizens and […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County no longer has a grand jury. Steve Bailey, the Superior Court judge who oversees the volunteer board, signed a court order Feb. 22 dissolving this year’s jury. The document says the reason is because the grand jury numbers dropped below the minimum of 12 and “that due to the […]
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By Nick Leiber, Bloomberg Businessweek In October, Google joined other big online marketplaces including eBay, Craigslist and Amazon.com in banning weapons listings on its revamped shopping site. The move, which the company said was in keeping with its advertising policy, predated the Newtown, Conn., school massacre by about two months. Yet there is no evidence […]
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By Kathryn Reed Randy Lane, the developer of the would-be convention center in South Lake Tahoe that is a pile of rebar and concrete after his Lake Tahoe Development Company filed for bankruptcy on that project, is making news on both sides of the state line. Regarding the property in South Tahoe, Owens Financial has […]
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Updated Feb. 18 1:30pm: The name of the man who was fatally struck by an alleged drunken driver Feb. 22 on Lake Tahoe Boulevard has been released. John Carleton, 51, of South Lake Tahoe died at Barton Memorial Hospital. The cause of the accident is still under investigation and autopsy results are pending. —- A […]
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