By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal For Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s lengthy and, so far, triumphant climb out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it was “Veni, vidi, vici” — “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Nevada Gaming Commission Chairman Tony Alamo, like his state Gaming Control Board counterpart, A.G. Burnett, two weeks earlier, quoted the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Being in the business of recovering dead bodies is stressful and rewarding. The past few days have been extremely satisfying for Keith Cormican and his girlfriend Beth Darst. On Saturday they recovered the body of Pham Dan Vu Thanh just north of Emerald Bay. He had gone kayaking by himself on June […]
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By Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal UNR President Marc Johnson told the class of 2021 that the university is not an institution defined by the actions of just one student. It was a message delivered at a welcome event for 3,800 freshmen ahead of the Monday start of the fall semester. It follows the national spotlight the […]
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By Kathryn Reed The financial situation in El Dorado County continues to deteriorate. The obligation to retirees via CalPERS keeps growing and contract negotiations with employees could be going better. The county’s unfunded obligation to the California Public Employees Retirement System is more than $346 million. This is $64 million more than when the last […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee California secession efforts are plentiful this year, but tech billionaire Tim Draper wants to go old school: Just split the Golden State into three. Draper spent more than $5 million in 2014 on an unsuccessful effort to qualify a ballot measure asking voters to divide California into six states. He […]
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By Katy Murphy, Bay Area News Group For the first time Californians would pay a tax on drinking water — 95 cents per month — under legislation aimed at fixing hundreds of public water systems with unsafe tap water. Senate Bill 623, backed by a strange-bedfellows coalition of the agricultural lobby and environmental groups but opposed […]
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By Paul Harasim, Las Vegas Review-Journal A nonprofit created by heavy hitters from Nevada’s business and medical communities gave the state a D grade on its first report card on the state’s health-care system. The report card was released Wednesday by the Nevada Medical Center, or NMC, and is intended to focus attention on improving […]
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By Louis Hansen, Bay Area News Group A pilot project is making an electric vehicle road trip in Northern California a little cheaper, easier and with a little less range anxiety. A fast-charging network, known as Drive the ARC, is bringing more than 50 new electric stations installed at about 25 sites from Monterey to Lake […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun In three of the first four states to start legal recreational pot sales, an increasing number of consumers are choosing bud over Budweiser. That conclusion comes from a study by New York-based investment and research firm Cowen and Co. In Colorado, Oregon and Washington, domestic beer sales for Budweiser, […]
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By Kathryn Reed A toxic algae bloom is covering a large swath of the Tahoe Keys, prompting a warning to people to be wary of the water. Officials with the Tahoe Keys have known about the blue-green algae since Aug. 11. Warnings, though, did not start until Aug. 23. For such a big problem, the […]
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