Reid, Feinstein urged Sierra Club not to fight RPU Federal legislators urged the Sierra Club not to delay the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update prior to the environmental group's challenge to the wide-ranging plan this week. [News Source]

Smart Bombs: A dose of health skepticism – Sun, 24 Feb 2013 PST At a Thursday public presentation on overtreatment in medicine, Dr. Richard Deyo displayed a New Yorker cartoon with a doctor saying to a patient, “You may believe you’ve been overcharged, but remember you’re overmedicated.” That’s as funny as it got, as Deyo politely but firmly pushed the concept of evidence-based medicine at his Riverpoint Campus speech. Deyo is the Kaiser Permanente professor ... [News Source]

Family files wrongful death against police LIHU‘E — A year to the day after Richard “Dickie” Louis was shot on his roof by police officers attempting to arrest him, his family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in 5th Circuit Court on Feb. 15. [News Source]