By Kathryn Reed Even though Joe Harn and Mike Owen went to El Dorado High School, with four years separating them, friends they are not. Owen wants Harn’s job. June marks the second consecutive election that Owen has tried to unseat Harn as auditor-controller of El Dorado County. Harn is endorsed by District Attorney Vern […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The first summer tease, with temperatures in the 80s, arrived last week in the Sierra foothills. But the real treats are in the rivers that cascade down the flank of the Sierra Nevada for rafting, water sports and camping. Memorial Day weekend is two weeks away and the rafting […]
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By Pete Williams, NBC News WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court acted Monday to bust Nevada’s monopoly on legal sports betting, allowing more states to get in on the action and reap the tax benefits. The court, in a 6-3 ruling, struck down a federal law that required states to ban gambling on the […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy OLYMPIC VALLEY – One of the popular terms heard during the River Network’s River Rally was “citizen scientist.” In workshop titled Restoring and Connecting a Wild & Scenic River, presenter Carrie Banks from Massachusetts said that she uses citizen scientists to prioritize projects, secure funding, document crossing and stream function, among […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink There was a time this winter when, on the surface, Tahoe City’s future looked grim. The downtown commercial core was facing a plethora of empty restaurants and storefronts. The old Zia Lina space in the middle of downtown, vacated last year, was still empty, as well as the adjoining space […]
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By Jill S. Greenlee, The Conversation Motherhood is taking center stage in U.S. politics. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, the first United States senator to give birth while in office has been seen on Capitol Hill with her newborn nestled in her lap. Two Democratic gubernatorial candidates, Maryland’s Krish Vignarajah and Wisconsin’s Kelda Roys, made waves with […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Food. It’s what matters to many travelers. But it’s not a reason to visit the South Shore – not yet, any way. The importance of being a culinary destination was illustrated during a presentation last week by Erik Wolf. He is the executive director and founder of the World Food […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times The 2014 water bond included a novel funding approach designed to take at least some of the politicking out of deciding which projects get public money. This week’s tortured deliberations by the California Water Commission showed just how tough it is to do that. By applying a complex […]
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By Tara Lohan, Water Deeply Imagine a California where springtime temperatures are 7 degrees warmer than they are today, where snowmelt runoff comes 50 days earlier and the average snowpack is just 36 percent of the 1981–2000 average. That may be the reality by the end of the century if we don’t curb greenhouse gas […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Public outcry is forcing the Tahoe Transportation District board of directors to take more time before deciding how to reconfigure public transit on the South Shore. George Fink, who manages the bus system, painted a financially bleak picture for the board at the May 11 meeting. Part of the funding […]
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