• John McLaughlin, CFO of Edgewood Companies, and Ken Riley, senior vice president of Kiewit Infrastructure Group, have joined the Tahoe Prosperity Center board. • Dolph Lundgren will star “The Lake”, a movie being filmed this fall in the Tahoe-Reno area. It’s about freshwater sharks in Lake Tahoe. • Mike Panici of Incline Village released […]
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Jim Porter of Porter-Simon will talk about ADA compliance at the Sept. 2 North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce breakfast. His talk is titled It’s the Right Thing To Do … And You Won’t Get Sued. It is about what businesses need to know regarding ADA laws, regulations, updates and especially parking requirements and signage. […]
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A group of locals has been working on removing graffiti from a heavily tagged beach on the East Shore. Now they are enlisting the help of others. On Oct. 12, people are invited to help clean up graffiti at Bonsai Beach, which is one mile south of Sand Harbor in Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe is making strides to have a coordinated regional transit system. A significant step is this week there will be a job posting by Tahoe Transportation District for a transit system program manager. “We need to answer: ‘What does an integrated transit system in the entire Tahoe area look like?’,” Carl […]
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By Sara Scribner, Slate A young poet, enough of a rising star to be profiled in the New York Times magazine, posts a poem called “The Rape Joke.” It begins, “The rape joke is that you were 19 years old. The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend.” It is about as intense and […]
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By Chris Ip, Columbia Journalism Review If social media users think their followers don’t share their opinion on the news, they are less likely to post those views on Facebook and Twitter, according to a new Pew Research Center report, released today. It showed Facebook and Twitter users posted less about Edward Snowden and his […]
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By Mark Glover and Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee Raley’s has agreed to pay nearly $1.6 million in civil penalties, costs and funding for environmental projects as part of a settlement related to allegations of improperly disposing hazardous waste. The judgment is the culmination of a civil enforcement lawsuit filed in San Joaquin County to stop […]
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Remains found in Truckee on July 12 have been identified as Duane Colin. The Truckee resident had been reported missing in March. Investigators do not believe foul play was involved. The exact cause of death remains unknown. Two hikers found teh skeletal remains west of Donner Lake Road in a steep and heavily wooded area […]
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By Fred Barbash, Washington Post Starting the school day before 8:30 in the morning is bad for kids. It’s bad for their physical health, their mental health and their academic performance. So says the American Academy of Pediatrics, which issued a formal policy statement Monday recommending that middle and high schools do away with those […]
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• If the water bond passes in November, California Tahoe Conservancy is slated to get $15 million. • These photos show the impact of drought in California. • Tesla is working with the Truckee Donner Public Utility District to put in an electric car charging station. •John Cefalu is having a fundraiser for Health to […]
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