By Alexander Cohen, Las Vegas Review-Journal A database of Nevada arrest records that was open to public inspection for decades has been made secret by a new state law. The Nevada Department of Public Safety, which collects the information from law enforcement agencies across the state, won approval of the new law after the Las […]
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By Matt Levin, CalMatters Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a Star Trek villain. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “thunderous applause.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants’ rights groups working as political bedfellows. All inspired by a wonky state housing bill yet to […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Nugget Markets officially pulled out of the Truckee Railyard development this month after determining the area would not be able to support it as well as two other new grocery developments approved in the last two months: a Raley’s at Soaring Way, and a Grocery Outlet at Gateway. The loss […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee Call it the Loyalton effect. CalPERS’ decision in late 2016 to slash pensions for four retirees from the tiny mountain town startled the state’s public workers so much that their confidence in the $354 billion fund began to plunge to its lowest level in five years. It showed in an […]
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By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal The focus at the World Game Protection Conference in Las Vegas turned from cheaters to active shooters this year following deadly incidents in the Philippines, Chile and Las Vegas. The annual show, which attracted about 600 security and surveillance professionals from around the world, held presentations on how to […]
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By KCRA-TV Daffodil Hill will not be opening for the 2018 season, the Ryan Family said Tuesday. “Since the end of February we have had rain, hail, and snow every week. The early flowers are gone and the ones that are up are badly damaged,” the ranch owners posted on Facebook. Read the whole story
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By David Crary, AP Suddenly, America is on the march. Saturday’s March for Our Lives, planned for Washington and hundreds of other locations, is just the most recent sign that an extraordinary number of Americans are taking to heart the old truism that democracy should not be a spectator sport. In numbers not seen since […]
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By Matthew Daly, AP A spending bill approved by the House includes a bipartisan plan to create a wildfire disaster fund to help combat increasingly severe wildfires that have devastated the West in recent years. The bill sets aside more than $20 billion over 10 years to allow the Forest Service and other federal agencies […]
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Washoe County sheriff’s deputies issued more than 300 citations for speeding violations during a statewide Joining Forces traffic safety event in early March. From March 2-18, 2018, the sheriff’s office, along with the Reno and Sparks Police Departments, and the Nevada Highway Patrol dedicated extra officers to enforce speed safety laws as part of ongoing […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Out of a $550 million annual budget the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors only gets to decide how a fraction of that is spent. It’s the approximately $150 million General Fund that they have a say over. The rest is state and federal money that has strings attached. And […]
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