By Cindy Krischer Goodman, Miami Herald As the temperature rises and the day lengthens, summer slowdown creeps into almost every workplace. But this summer, a growing number of professionals are strategically using the downtime to rebalance. Experts estimate that when vacation mindset seeps into offices during summer, productivity slips by as much as 20 percent. […]
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By APA federal appeals court has denied an appeal by former Nevada developer and power broker Harvey Whittemore to stay out of prison while he appeals his campaign finance conviction. Nevada U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Natalie Collins says the ruling means Whittemore must surrender to a federal prison on Wednesday to begin serving a two-year […]
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• South Lake Tahoe is canceling its Aug. 19 City Council meeting so members may attend the annual Environmental Summit at Valhalla, which starts at 10am. • Tom Lotshaw has been hired as public information officer for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Most recently he has been a reporter at the Tahoe Daily Tribune. • […]
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To the community, This is part of an email that I sent my son Aug. 1. We hear so much now days about people that don’t care, are apathetic, and just don’t want to get involved. That’s not the case in South Lake Tahoe. The people that I witnessed today were amazing. They did care, […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun Facing a contested re-election bid that is increasingly being framed around immigration, Rep. Joe Heck voted against a Republican bid to require the president to deport immigrants brought into the country illegally. Heck was one of 11 House Republicans, including Rep. Mark Amodei of Northern Nevada, to defy their […]
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Placer County is in the process of figuring out what the Lake Tahoe area should look like in the next 20 years. Staff presented an update last month to the Board of Supervisors and Governing Board of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The environmental documents being prepared cover most of the North Shore of the […]
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A 21-year-old woman sustained serious injuries when she dove from the pier at Timber Cove into the shallow waters of Lake Tahoe. About 6:30pm Aug. 1 Timber Cove staff and others rescued her from the water. South Lake Tahoe paramedics transported her to Heavenly Mountain Resort’s California Lodge where CareFlight flew her to Renown Medical […]
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The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe’s Heroes Now and Forever campaign is in its final months. This means there is limited time and space to be a part of the shelter’s recognition wall. Individuals or businesses contributing $1,000 or more can be part of the wall, either in honor or memory of a person, pet, or […]
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By Kathryn Reed Nothing separates the South Lake Tahoe Police Department fleet from the public. No fence. Only a sign telling people they can’t park in that area. Earlier this summer when the City Council was discussing capital improvement projects, No. 18 on the list was a perimeter security fence for the department. But it […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 14, 2014, Los Angeles Times. California’s landmark climate change law, Assembly Bill 32, has created a promising cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases that has put the state on track to meet its emissions goals for 2020, kick-started the state’s green technology industry and generated hundreds of millions […]
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