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Column: California senate bill addresses ADA lawsuit abuse
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/22/2012 - 6:00amOver the past few years, numerous small business owners have been hit with a frivolous Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit. It has been frustrating and disturbing to watch predatory attorneys w...
Brown signs bill allowing sale of home-cooked food
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 2:03pmSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A new law will lift restrictions on the sale of home-cooked treats and impose sanitation and labeling requirements on the burgeoning cottage food trend.Gov. Jerry Brown an...
Nevada Jobless Rate Ticks Up To 12.1 Percent In August
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 1:35pmPolice warn of gas company scam
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 09/19/2012 - 6:34pmThe South Lake Tahoe Police Department received information of a scam to access retiree’s financial information. A person falsely presents themself as a representative from the local gas company and offers to set up an appointment to review the customer’s financial records. The representative claims they can lower the gas bill, if they can review the financial documents.
The public should know Southwest Gas will not ever send anyone out to review personal financial information of customers.
Brown signs bill to prevent drug overdose deaths
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 09/17/2012 - 5:27pmSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Drug users and underage drinkers seeking medical help will no longer have to fear charges under a so-called "good Samaritan" bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown.The governor a...
Immigration bill divides California sheriffs
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/01/2012 - 6:00amSANTA ANA - California sheriffs are divided over a bill aimed at protecting certain illegal immigrants from deportation, with some saying that if Gov. Jerry Brown signs the measure they'll be force...
Seeing Sierra Nevada uplift from space topic of Lake Tahoe science lecture
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 2:57am
Event Date:
September 11, 2012 - 5:30pm
Scientific evidence from the University of Nevada, Reno shows the entire Sierra Nevada mountain range is rising at the relatively fast rate of 1 to 2 millimeters every year.
A lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 11 will provide this new information on Sierra Nevada uplift as seen from space. The lecture, by Bill Hammond, associate professor at the University of Nevada at Reno, will be at the Lake Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 County Club Drive, in Incline Village.
Proposed Legislative Discussion On Assault Weapons Derailed By Nevada Committee Vote
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 08/28/2012 - 2:16pmCARSON CITY — If there was any question about whether the gun debate is a controversial topic in Nevada as well as nationally, a clear answer was provided Tuesday at a meeting of the Advisory Commission on the Administration of Justice.
A proposed discussion on assault weapons was removed from the agenda by a vote of the panel before it could even begin.
Bill would expedite pipeline maintenance
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 6:37pmSACRAMENTO, Calif. - Utility companies will be able to act more quickly to maintain and replace pipelines if a bill approved by the Assembly becomes law.The legislation, which passed unanimously Th...
Sully Sullenberger returns to Lake Tahoe to speak at 23rd Lake in the Sky Air Show
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 08/16/2012 - 2:10pm
For the second time in less than a year, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III will speak at Lake Tahoe, this time as a special guest speaker of the 2012 Lake in the Sky Air Show, Aug. 24-26 at the Lake Tahoe Airport.
Sullenberger gained fame when he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549, which had been disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese, in the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City, on January 15, 2009. All of the 155 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft survived.
Lake Tahoe Regional Plan clears critical hurdle
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 5:30am
The regional plan cleared a critical hurdle. No fanfare. No high fives. Not even a story in the local press. Yet an unprecedented moment in Lake Tahoe history transpired last week that may shape the Tahoe Basin for decades to come. That moment was the agreement reached by the Bi-State Consultation group, which should serve as the foundation for the new TRPA regional plan.
But first a little history lesson.
Two incumbents face field of challengers in City Council race
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 08/10/2012 - 11:05pmAnd they're off. Two incumbents — Hal Cole and Bruce Grego — will face three and possibly four challengers in the race for two seats on the South Lake Tahoe City Council in November.
The filing period ended at 5 p.m. Friday. If one of the incumbents had not filed, the filing period would have been extended by five days.
Local broadcasters to be inducted into hall of fame
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 6:00amSouth Lake Tahoe area broadcasters Ed Crook, Curtis Fong and Bill Kingman will be inducted into the Nevada Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame on Aug. 18.
Radio station KTHO will host an open house at its station, located at 1001 Heavenly Village Way, Suite 36A, on Friday, Aug. 10, from 4-7 p.m. in their honor.
Don Q's Northern California and Sierra fishing report for August 8-14
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 6:12pmFishing spots in the Sierra, Lake Tahoe, Northern California and Nevada will be the place to be this week as temperatures will send thousands of anglers to dozens of rivers, lakes and streams in the region. Here is the latest fishing report for the week of August 8-14. Pack plenty of water, sunscreen and don't forget your fishing license.
Clean Energy Summit Sparks Political Events, Debate Over Government Role In Renewables
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 08/07/2012 - 6:11amCARSON CITY — With U.S. Sen. Harry Reid’s 5th annual National Clean Energy Summit set to kick off today in Las Vegas, the debate over alternative energy development and the government’s role in its future rages on.
EPA faces budget cuts that could reach basin
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 08/04/2012 - 6:00amDebate in Congress started last week on a bill the House Appropriations Committee approved in July 2011 that would cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by $1.4 billion and could eventually affect the Lake Tahoe Basin.
University of Nevada, Reno to host Bill Nye The Science Guy
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 08/02/2012 - 9:27am
Event Date:
September 6, 2012 - 7:00pm
The public is invited to be entertained and educated with Bill Nye the Science Guy Sept. 6, the first of several presentations in the annual Discover Science Lecture Series at the University of Nevada, Reno. The College of Science and Associated Students of the University of Nevada are bringing Nye to the University’s Lawlor Events Center at 7 p.m. All tickets are $5 per person, available through the Lawlor box office.
Report Evaluates Success Of Incentives In Western States, Finds Fewer In Nevada Due To Tax Structure
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 3:52pmCARSON CITY — A new report from The Council of State Governments exploring the successes that 13 Western states have had with tax incentives to encourage economic growth found that Nevada has fewer such programs in large part because of its tax structure.
Saunders: Bill Clinton's new best friends
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 10:53amIt doesn't matter who wins in November; Bill Clinton will end this year on top. The former president will introduce Barack Obama on the penultimate night of the Democratic National Convention in Ch...
Don Q's fishing report for the week of August 1-7
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 08/01/2012 - 10:36amHere is this week's fishing report for rivers, lakes and streams in Nevada, Northern California and the Sierra. This fishing report is for Aug. 1-7.
Wednesday night is comedy night at the Carson Nugget
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/31/2012 - 3:52pm
Event Date:
August 1, 2012 (All day) Carson City, NV—Get ready to laugh! Wednesday night is Comedy Night at the Carson Nugget. The weekly shows begin each at 7 PM in the Show Lounge. Seating is limited. There is no cover; however, there is a two drink minimum.
The next featured comic is Kelly Monteith. He has performed in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe and Reno as well as theaters throughout the United States and Canada. He has shared the bill with a “Who’s Who” of performers including Bill Cosby, Loretta Lynn, Aretha Franklin and Tony Bennett to name just a few.
Wednesday Comedy Night Schedule
Broader Measure Of Unemployment Shows Continued Improvement In Nevada But Still Above 20 Percent
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 07/27/2012 - 1:51pmCARSON CITY – A broader measure of Nevada’s unemployment picture, including those who have given up looking for work, showed slight but continued improvement through the second quarter of 2012, a federal report released today shows.
Called the U-6 rate, it declined in Nevada from 22.3 percent in the four quarters through March 31 to 22.1 percent in the 12 months ending June 30, according to the quarterly report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to Visit South Lake Tahoe and Barton Memorial Hospital
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 07/26/2012 - 1:25pm
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, will visit Barton Memorial Hospital on Monday as part of a tour visiting health care facilities in California and Nevada. The visit coincides with the FCC's Rural Healthcare Pilot Program, in which Barton Health received funding.
Lake Tahoe 'Be Bear Aware' Community Forum on Wednesday
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 07/17/2012 - 6:40pmEvent Date:
July 18, 2012 - 6:00pm
A Lake Tahoe bear awareness program, hosted by the UC Davis Lake Tahoe Environmental Research Center, is slated for Wednesday at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village.
Saunders: California high-speed rail: unsafe at any speed
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 6:00amDemocratic California state Sen. Joe Simitian probably is best-known as the author of California's bill to ban the use of hand-held cellphones while driving. After Friday's vote, Simitian may be be...
GOP Members Of Congress Ask Governors To Reject Health Exchanges, Nevada Program Already Well Under Way
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 07/10/2012 - 2:48pmCARSON CITY – A letter from 12 U.S. Senators and 61 members of the House to the nation’s governors asking them to oppose the creation of health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act comes too late to have any effect in Nevada.
Pablo Cruise headlines A Concert Under the Stars Wednesday
Submitted by Editor on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 12:36pm
Dave Jenkins returns to Carson City for his second performance at A Concert Under the Stars, a fundraiser for The Greenhouse Project, July 11 with his band, Pablo Cruise.
Jenkins performed four years ago for the inaugural event, which takes place at Café at Adele’s, but his love of music began at a tender age.
Writers Returns to Squaw Valley with a Great Line-Up of Literary Events
Submitted by Editor on Sun, 07/08/2012 - 12:06amEvent Date:
July 8, 2012 (All day)
Every summer writers of all stripes — poets, novelists, screenwriters and writers of memoirs, histories, essays and short stories — descend on Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe for a week of intensive literary activity. The valley buzzes with metaphors flying and manuscripts flapping, as over 250 writers, editors and publishers convene in two separate week-long workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoir and screenwriting.
Bill aids search for Speed Freak Killers' victims
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 10:00amSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - A convicted serial killer could be temporarily freed from death row to help search for the remains of long-dead victims under a bill state lawmakers approved Thursday.The ...
NV bill would license medical pot farms
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:50amCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A former chairman of Nevada's Democratic Party wants to license farms where marijuana can be grown legally and certify pot dispensaries for the first time for the thousands...
Sully Sullenberger returns to Lake Tahoe as guest speaker of 23rd Lake in the Sky Air Show
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 07/06/2012 - 9:37am
For the second time in less than a year, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III will speak at Lake Tahoe, this time as a special guest speaker of the 2012 Lake in the Sky Air Show, Aug. 24-26 at the Lake Tahoe Airport.
Sullenberger gained fame when he successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549, which had been disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese, in the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City, on January 15, 2009. All of the 155 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft survived.
Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe Celebrates New Board of Directors
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 7:52am
Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe, a 94-member non-profit community-service organization of professional and business women from California and Nevada announced their 2012 - 2013 Board of Directors at Harrah’s Resort in Stateline, June 27.
SI Sierra Nevada Region Governor-Elect Janice Labadie, a florist from Davis, Calif. and Regional Secretary Patricia Papp, a South Lake Tahoe Realtor and member of sister organization SI Tahoe Sierra, were both on hand to install the new board.
Nevada Lawmaker Takes Aim Again At Fast-Food Sales In Effort To Combat Obesity
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 07/02/2012 - 6:12pmCARSON CITY – Assemblyman Harvey Munford, D-Las Vegas, said today he will try again with a bill in the 2013 session to impose a fee on some items sold at fast-food restaurants in an effort to help combat the national obesity epidemic.
OBITUARY: WILLIAM DONALD STONE
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/30/2012 - 6:00amWILLIAM DONALD STONE of South Lake Tahoe, passed away on June 14, 2012. He was born in Redding, California on November 13, 1949. As a young man Bill traveled all around California and settled in...
Congress passes student loans, highway jobs bill
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 7:35pmWASHINGTON - Congress emphatically approved legislation Friday preserving jobs on transportation projects from coast to coast and avoiding interest rate increases on new loans to millions of colleg...
California universities reject proposed ‘Student Athlete Bill of Rights’
Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 2:55pmCharen: No one left to pander to
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/20/2012 - 6:00amIn 1999, Christopher Hitchens penned an acid reflection on the presidency of Bill Clinton, titled "No One Left To Lie To." The verdict on the presidency of Barack Obama, at least during this campai...
TRPA withdrawl sponsor defeated in primary election
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 9:51amCARSON CITY, Nev. - The North Las Vegas lawmaker who sponsored the bill to pull Nevada out of the TRPA was defeated in the primary.State Sen. John Lee, D-North Las Vegas, was overwhelmingly defeate...
Opinion: June Skibum
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/09/2012 - 8:33pm
Loop road poop road, you do realize that the state is going to do what they want, how they want and when they want with concerns to the Loop road. This is probably the best chance we have to get out of our financial obligation with regards to pensions, healthcare, unsound financial decisions, raising taxes, giving away the keys to the city to every con artist around and quite possibly the clap.
Nevada Business Margin Tax Initiative Petition Filed, Legal Challenge Expected
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 4:59pmCARSON CITY – A business margin tax initiative petition filed with the Secretary of State’s office won’t see signature gathering efforts start right away because a legal challenge to the proposal is expected, a teachers union official said today.
Pot bill passes California Assembly, Senate may extinguish it
Submitted by admin on Sun, 06/03/2012 - 6:11pmBill would ban incarceration questions on job applications
Submitted by admin on Sat, 06/02/2012 - 6:30pmAssembly passes medical marijuana oversight bill
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/01/2012 - 11:26amSAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A bill aimed at providing a framework for overseeing and regulating California's notoriously free-wheeling medical marijuana industry squeaked out of the state Assembly on Thur...
Bill would create new funding for state parks
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/31/2012 - 10:22amSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Bipartisan legislation to create new funding sources for state parks and limit the California Department of Parks and Recreation's authority to close them has passed the A...
Bill would allow sports wagering in California
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/30/2012 - 11:46amSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California would be in a position to allow sports betting at race tracks, card rooms and casinos under a bill approved by the state Senate.Sen. Rob Wright says the state c...
Lawmakers work together to keep state parks open
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 1:13pmSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers have a hard time agreeing on most budget matters, but the effort to keep state parks open is encouraging rare bipartisan deal-making.A handful of bill...
Memorial Saturday for legendary broadcaster, hellraiser and satirist Travus T. Hipp
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 05/24/2012 - 12:59pm
Services for legendary radio commentator Travus T. Hipp will be held this Saturday, May 26, in Silver City. Hipp died early Friday morning, May 18, at his Silver City home. He was 75, as old as the Golden Gate Bridge in his beloved San Francisco.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, May 26, in Silver City. Gathering, gnoshing and remembering will begin at the Silver City Community Center, 385 High Street, at 10:00 a.m. Food and refreshments will be provided. Those who wish may bring more.
