Update Feb. 25 8:15pm: Kathy Arlana Hammond of Gardnerville has returned home after being reported as a missing person on Feb. 15. Hammond had traveled to Los Angeles on personal business, and was unaware she was reported as a missing person. Hammond does not possess a cell phone, and had not contacted friends or family […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee The state attorney general’s office has launched a criminal investigation of California parks officials after the “hidden funds” case seemingly reached a dead end when state and local prosecutors did not pursue charges last month. Peter Southworth, a supervising deputy at the attorney general’s office, disclosed to a joint legislative […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee A new survey shows most California voters don’t like government’s response to global warming and still support the state’s greenhouse gas emissions law. The Field Poll results released today show that 62 percent of voters are unhappy with the federal government’s actions and nearly half, 49 percent, give low marks […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Even though the Legislature rushed through a bill on Internet poker Thursday, the state has yet to approve the software to allow the game to be offered to the public. The Assembly and the Senate gave unanimous approval to the emergency measure, and Gov. Brian Sandoval […]
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By Kathryn Reed A desire to do something for his community. That is how the now 10-year-old St. Joseph Community Land Trust came into being. Lyn Barnett learned about land trusts at a planning convention in 2001. He was convinced during a lecture that a land trust is what Tahoe needed. “A lot of long-term […]
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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News Jerry Brown is pushing an appealing idea: Local control for local schools. Bucking a national trend, the governor wants to back the state away from making schools account for their spending and for punishing them if their students lag in achievement. But, perhaps surprisingly, school officials aren’t jumping […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee When CalPERS balked at releasing records that could shed light on its decision to invest $100 million in an East Palo Alto housing project that failed, a judge ordered disclosure nearly three years ago. San Francisco Superior Court Judge Charlotte Woolard’s ruling said it is difficult to imagine a more […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two California state senators introduced a bill on Friday that would bring changes to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. SB630 amends a series of sections of government code relating to the California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The bill is authored by state Sens. Fran Pavley, D-Agoura Hills, and Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. It […]
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By Joanna Lin, California Watch The last time Charlie Parker took a social studies class, he was a teenager with an Afro and Jimmy Carter was president of the United States. Yet here he was, standing at the front of a classroom, trying to teach dozens of high schoolers subjects that never appealed to him […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – Clearly there is a demand for high-end properties in the greater Lake Tahoe area because within days of full ownership residences at the Ritz-Carlton at Northstar coming on the market some are already in escrow. The public was able to stroll through the multimillion dollar penthouse floor parcels last weekend. […]
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