By Kathryn Reed Gino DiMatteo, the man accused of bribing South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Angela Swanson, is back behind bars. This time he faces federal drug charges. While the state drug charges have been dropped, the federal charges are more serious if only because of the venue. Plus, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s […]
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By Tony Dokoupil, Newsweek Full dark in downtown Denver, and inside one of the twinkling high-rises that make the skyline, drug dealers are putting money into envelopes. They’re trying to be discreet. No one signed the security logbook in the lobby. All assume the room could be bugged. But if your image of the drug […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Heading into eleventh-hour contract negotiations with Raley’s, unionized grocery workers got public support Thursday from Sacramento’s most powerful labor leaders. A rally in front of the federal building in downtown Sacramento turned into a rousing send-off for union negotiator Jacques Loveall, president of Local 8 of the United Food and […]
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By Alan Greenblatt, NPR Suppose Sandy had struck a week later. With power out across multiple states, how would people be able to vote on Election Day? “If this were happening next week, we have no provisions for dealing with this in law,” says Thad Hall, a political scientist at the University of Utah. Many […]
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By Jonathan Edwards, Lincoln Journal Star Carrying 175 pounds of marijuana, Justin Woodcock landed his single-engine plane March 9 at the Alliance Municipal Airport in Nebraska. Alliance police Detective Dusty Bryner was waiting, armed with a tip and a police dog specially trained to find drugs. Bryner found the pot and arrested the South Lake […]
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By Amanda Ripley, Time On Sept. 17, the Pakistani government shut down access to YouTube. The purported reason was to block the anti-Muslim film trailer that was inciting protests around the world. One little-noticed consequence of this decision was that 215 people in Pakistan suddenly lost their seats in a massive, open online physics course. […]
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By Kathryn Reed With pens in hand, people started drawing what they thought would be the best route for a loop road at the South Shore’s state line. At the other end of the table a container was filling up with those casting a vote for there never to be a loop road beyond what […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Two months after taking office, President Barack Obama signed a historic wilderness bill that banned logging, mining and oil drilling across 2 million acres of scenic federal lands, including the Sierra Nevada, wildflower meadows on Oregon’s Mount Hood and vast vistas of California desert. But today, with less […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch The state’s Environmental Protection Agency finalized a revision of a controversial K-12 environmental curriculum on plastic bags Friday. California Watch reported last year that whole sections of an 11th-grade teachers’ edition guide for a new curriculum had been lifted almost verbatim from comments and suggestions submitted by the American Chemistry […]
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By Kathryn Reed Asian clams are expected to always be a reality in Lake Tahoe. But an $810,000, yearlong project is under way to keep them from taking over Emerald Bay. With it estimated that 95 percent of the people who launch a boat at Lake Tahoe make their way to Emerald Bay, keeping that […]
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