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As the Senate heads back into session, we begin with a heavy focus on jobs. With our state struggling more than most in this economy, I'm working with public and private entities to diversify our economy by investing in clean energy projects to... more...
02/05/2010 6:10pm
As the Senate heads back into session, we begin with a heavy focus on jobs. With our state struggling more than most in this economy, I'm working with public and private entities to diversify our economy by investing in clean energy projects to...
  02/05/2010 6:10pm
Today is Groundhog Day, a time when the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil predicts the next six weeks of weather. If we get our winter chill back or the warm El Niño effect provides Tahoe with much-needed rain and/or snow, muffins will make it feel like it's...
  02/02/2010 2:10pm
Through autumn and the winter days I've enjoyed a few different recipes for baked egg custard. They all warmed me up, but I craved the perfect homemade custard, an ultimate comfort food. At last, this past week during our snowstorm(s), I created a...
  01/26/2010 5:04pm
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A bird's-eye view of the Upper Truckee River 200 years ago would have appeared much different than today. From the snow-encased headwaters in the mountains west of South Lake Tahoe to the wide, marshy mouth on the...
  01/22/2010 7:01pm
The tea partiers are enjoying their day in the sun, but coffee is the beverage preferred by most Americans, and we don't have time to gang up and holler and wave our arms -- we prefer to sit quietly with coffee in hand and read a reliable newspaper and...
  01/21/2010 4:46pm
Former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell announced Thursday that he is dropping out of the California GOP gubernatorial primary and instead will run against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
  01/19/2010 4:52pm
We live in a magnificently beautiful natural environment that provides fantastic year-round recreational and environmental benefits to us all. There are many wonderful people here from all different backgrounds and places who call the South Shore home.
  01/15/2010 5:37pm
I went to church in San Francisco on Sunday, the big stone church on Nob Hill, whose name is an old slang term for a rich person, where a gaggle of railroad tycoons built their palaces high above the squalid tenements of the poor back in the Gilded Age,...
  01/14/2010 3:25pm
There is no doubt that Nevadans are hungry for healthcare reform. They see the possibilities for a system that provides greater access, reins in costs, and encourages innovation. Public sentiment, however, is not with the legislation recently passed in...
  01/10/2010 2:17pm
I've never used a helmet cam before trying out EMotionCam's setup at Heavenly Mountain Resort on Wednesday.
  01/08/2010 6:57pm
Inside the House and Senate health care bills lurks a ticking time bomb — a new federal entitlement, under the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) Act, which would allow Americans to buy into a voluntary federal long-term care...
  01/05/2010 3:24pm
It is possible in this day and age to fly south in December and three hours later land in a city where you can sit comfortably in your T-shirt and linen jacket and eat your dinner at a café under palm trees and still enjoy the protections of the U.S.
  12/31/2009 3:42pm
Gosh darn, I feel great to live in a country that gives full constitutional rights to a foreign national who, on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, was tackled by passengers and crew as he reportedly was trying to blow up the plane.
  12/29/2009 5:04pm
Rural Nevadans, like those in Las Vegas and Reno, have seen their television news and local papers dominated this past year by coverage of the fight to reform our broken health insurance system, and for good reason. Nevada has the second-highest rate of...
  12/24/2009 3:33pm
For years, global warming alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as proof that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few qualms about blurring the line between weather and climate to make a PR point. Perhaps, then, it...
  12/22/2009 5:18pm
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