Reno, NV…On July 6, 2011, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office RAVEN program received a Letter of Authorization from the Department of Interior to use their RAVEN 3 Huey helicopter to fly fire suppression missions on BLM lands. Within 24 hours that authorization, or “Carding,” RAVEN 3 was dropping water on a brush fire off Gardella […]
Tahoe City, CA…Public Meeting Set for Placer County Tahoe Basin Plan Update. Lake Tahoe summer beach scene. Placer County continues its effort to update the Community/General Plan in the Tahoe Basin with a Town Hall meeting on July 19, 2012, at the Granlibakken Conference Center & Lodge in Tahoe City. At the meeting, the county […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the first-ever accounting of its kind, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) has found that in 2011, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies made more than 1.3 million requests of wireless carriers for the cell phone records of consumers, and that number is increasing every year. Last month, Rep. Markey queried […]
WASHINGTON, DC—In this week’s address, President Obama spoke to the American people from Ohio about a bill signed on Friday that does two important things: it keeps thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and it stops interest rates on federal loans from doubling this year for more than seven million […]
SACRAMENTO – The most comprehensive overhaul of state government in decades became official today following legislative approval of Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s Reorganization Plan. The Governor’s plan, which will be implemented over the next year, cuts the number of state agencies from 12 to 10 and eliminates or consolidates dozens of departments and entities. […]
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the […]
South Lake Tahoe, Calif. –The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) will continue a project to eradicate, control, and contain known and future infestations of “invasive weeds” using chemical treatment. Work will occur Monday, July 9 through Thursday, July 12, 2012. An Environmental Assessment released by the Forest Service in 2010 identified […]
Colorado Springs, CO…In this week’s address, President Obama spoke to the American people from Colorado, where he had just finished touring areas impacted by the devastating Waldo Canyon fire, meeting with first responders as well as families affected by the fires. The President thanked the brave firefighters and countless volunteers who are providing food, water, […]
Washington, DC…Part of Chief Justice Roberts Opinion that the Government does infact have the right to collect the healthcare Tax “The Government advances two theories for the proposition that Congress had constitutional authority to enact the individual mandate. First, the Government argues that Congress had the power to enact the mandate under the Commerce Clause. […]
SACRAMENTO – Assemblywoman Beth Gaines, R-Rocklin, today issued the following statement in response to the Legislature’s passage of the so called budget trailer bills Wednesday afternoon: “This is another budget that spends billions more than we are taking in and does nothing to cure the long-term problems that are killing our state. We need to […]
