By William H. Meadows As the Republican presidential nomination process moves on to the states of Nevada and Colorado, a new topic has arisen in a race that has already seen many twists and turns. That issue is the purpose and importance of public lands. In a recent interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal,...

By Priya Guha Around the world, nations are looking for ways to accelerate their recovery from the global recession. While the tactics may be different, the strategy is the same: encourage robust, sustainable growth. In the United Kingdom, a central plank of our plan for growth is a reduction in the...

By Ted Gaines As we near the fifth anniversary of the devastating Angora Fire that ravaged the Lake Tahoe area, leaving destruction in its wake, I am baffled by the governor’s decision to put lives and property in even more danger by cutting fire protection funding for the region. The governor’s...

Publisher’s note: This editorial from the Jan. 29, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle. For 28 days Washington, D.C., cops tracked a suspected drug dealer. He was followed along city streets on errands, to the nightclub he owned and on to a stash house, where $1 million in cash and 100 kilos of cocaine...

Random Acts of Kindness has been wildly successful because of you. When the idea first percolated last fall we wondered what the reaction would be. Would people embrace it? Would they write in? Would businesses want to be part of it? Within the first hour of asking businesses to contribute a gift, three...

By Nancy Graalman After a misplaced display of pique – directed at citizens exercising their public meeting rights instead of at California State Parks staff responsible for an awkward do-over of actions taken last fall – State Park Commissioners approved last Friday a re-packaged resolution that...

To the community, Bread & Broth would like to thank Heavenly Mountain Resort for its continued support in our Adopt-A-Day of Nourishment Program. Volunteers from spent their Monday helping Bread & Broth volunteers serve those in need a well balanced nutritious meal to people from the community. The...

To the community, As a member of the City Council, I served on three JPA boards (joint powers authority). They were the recreation JPA created by Measure S; the refuse JPA; and the fire-ambulance JPA. Recently, the recreation JPA has been through a meat grinder. It has paid for two elections; one failed,...

Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 21, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle. A revolution is brewing in California that could right a judicial wrong and strike a blow for democracy and fairer elections. Oddly, it began in Hawaii and Montana. But a movement in California could become a catalyst...

By Bill O’Reilly Growing up in Levittown out on Long Island, I remember my father buying pants through the mail. This seemed strange to me. There was a Robert Hall clothing store nearby, and it had pants all over the place. But my dad said he could buy two pair for the price of one from some guy...