By Anne Knowles, Northern Nevada Business Weekly Real estate professionals are hopeful a recovery in the Northern Nevada residential market that began to take hold in 2012 will take off in 2013. “We had our strongest sales since 2005,” says Helen Graham, president-elect of the Reno-Sparks Association of Realtors and an agent with Keller Williams […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Californians will no longer be able to carry handguns openly in public, buy alcohol at self-serve checkout stands or purchase shark fins for their soup under hundreds of new laws that take effect Jan. 1. Other measures bar minors from tanning beds, allow students to be suspended […]
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By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee It’s a cross between grandma’s attic and Fort Knox. In a tiny, unmarked room inside the state’s unclaimed property office in Rancho Cordova, there’s a veritable treasure trove just waiting for the right people to claim it. Set up like a department store jewelry counter, the 200-square-foot room is rimmed […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee An advocate of grass-roots family farming says a newly adopted El Dorado County ordinance is a compromise, but it boosts efforts to reduce state and federal restrictions on small agricultural operations. “The big thing for me is it has established the family farm as having a valued place,” said Pattie […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was 40 years ago that a dream came true for Dick Reuter and Bud Klein. The ski pioneers created Kirkwood Mountain Resort. Today, the ski resort celebrates its roots without its founders. Reuter and Klein both died in 2011 – both in their 80s. But what they have left is a […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The grand act of atonement that state leaders signed into law to correct a financial scandal at the California parks department may not turn out to be the healing gesture it first appeared to be. The new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in September, AB1478, allocates $10 million to […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday filled three Northern California judgeships, appointing a former assemblywoman and two area lawyers – all Democrats – to fill court vacancies. Former Assemblywoman Alyson Huber, 40, was appointed to a seat on the Sacramento Superior Court bench. Huber, of El Dorado Hills, completed her second […]
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By Kathleen Miles, Huffington Post A teen who consumes alcohol is likely to have reduced brain tissue health, but a teen who uses marijuana is not, according to a study. Researchers scanned the brains of 92 adolescents, ages 16 to 20, before and after an 18-month period. During that year and a half, half of […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee The body of a man missing for more than a month has been found in El Dorado County. When David Clement, 30, of Camino was thought to have gone for a jog on the morning of Nov. 6 and never returned, his father worried that he might have been attacked […]
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SALES & USE TAX RATE Rate Jurisdiction Purpose 3.6875% State State General Fund 0.25% State State General Fund 0.25% State State’s Fiscal Recovery Fund (2004 Economic Recovery Bonds) 0.50% State Local Public Safety Fund (1993) 0.50% State Local Revenue Fund (Health and Social Services) 1.0625% State Local Revenue Fund 2011 (Public […]
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