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The Nature Conservancy, working with federal, state and local agencies, as well as a private landowner, are collaborating on a forest restoration project designed to reduce the risk of catastrophic fires, protect onsite and neighboring structures, protect water supplies for people and enhance wildlife habitat near Carson City.

If you like to golf, then you know that golf season is here. Many golfers are gearing up to enjoy a full season on the green. Golfers of all levels must maintain strength, flexibility, and fitness to prevent injuries for a satisfying season of day to day play. Here are some occupational therapy tips for your success.

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No one wants to think about the “worst case scenario” in the heady days of a new business venture. But, before your start-up company does its first day of business, there are basic legal issues you should address to avoid complications down the road.

Weeds are taking off. Some are already blooming. Yesterday I saw my first bur buttercup, Ceratocephala testiculata, in bloom. While this tiny little winter annual with its petite yellow flower doesn’t seem like much at two inches tall, its Velcro-like seed heads wind themselves up in an animal’s hair and eventually have to be cut out.

UPDATE: Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) voted Wednesday in favor of H.R. 240, the FY 2015 Homeland Security Appropriations bill, which included amendments to defund the President’s executive action on immigration. Nevada Sen. Harry Reid said the legislation, which passed 236 to 191, would put national security at risk.

The vote makes good on the House Republican strategy to use a three-month Continuing Resolution to delay a vote on the DHS appropriations bill until that time it could be passed and sent to a Republican-controlled Senate in the 114th Congress.

Carson Tahoe Health will be the first hospital in Nevada to offer the new Lutonix® 035 Drug Coated Balloon PTA Catheter (DCB), which is the first and only DCB approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This new therapy dramatically improves the long-term durability of angioplasty procedures and decreases the need for repeat procedures for those suffering from Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

Carson Tahoe Health is the first hospital in Nevada to offer the new Lutonix® 035 Drug Coated Balloon PTA Catheter (DCB), which is the first and only DCB approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This new therapy dramatically improves the long-term durability of angioplasty procedures and decreases the need for repeat procedures for those suffering from Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD).

A few clients have been pleasantly surprised to find their long term capital gains were not taxed at all. That happens when the total taxable income, after deductions and exemptions, is low enough to not be taxed at more than 15 percent.

The American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) is the source of this special tax benefit. And it also works for dividends that are “qualified” (paid by an operating company out of profits-subject to some special definitions).

Some additional but seldom considered facts about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown Connecticut are important if we wish to protect the children rather than demagogue the issue. The following two links can provide insight into the problem while ignoring the campaign slogans and political posturing. We need to start acting like men instead and assume the responsibility that all men have to protect innocent life. Children die when grown men act like children, instead of men.

On Friday the Carson City Downtown Business Association hosted a “No Butt Party” eco-mixer. In an effort to help clean up the cigarette butt problem in the Downtown Telegraph Square area, the DBA purchased four “Butts Only Boxes” from Ken Beckstead of Cigarette Pollution Solutions.

The Butts Only Boxes are high grade steel, built to withstand bad weather and have a metal fenced opening that prevents animals and people from retrieving the contents.

Snow cover and high pressure over western Nevada has trapped cold air in the valleys and produced strong valley inversions that will slowly worsen air quality as pollutants build in the western Nevada valleys, according to the National Weather Service, which has issued an Air Quality Alert for Carson City, Carson Valley and the Reno-Sparks area.

Nevada Senators Harry Reid and Dean Heller and U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-2) met Wednesday with top officials from the U.S. Department of the Interior to discuss actions that can be taken to help prevent the Endangered Species Act listing of the sage grouse, as well as the negative impact such a listing would have on the economic growth and development of the Silver State.

by LINDSAY TOSTE

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District would merge with the Sierra Fire Protection District if AB 302 passed. / Photo by Lindsay Toste