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		<title>Opinion: Why are public lands public?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				</script>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, former Massachusetts Gov. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: How the UK is lowering tax rate on corporations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 corporate tax rate. It is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Governor&#8217;s cuts to fire safety in Tahoe don&#8217;t make sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 proposed budget eliminates the entire $2.3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Protecting privacy in the digital age</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;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 were finally grabbed. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Kindness is more than random in Lake Tahoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 slots on the January [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: State Parks&#8217; rehearing of Washoe Meadows was a farce</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 downgrades portions of Washoe Meadows State Park to clear the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Organizations keep Bread &amp; Broth alive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the community,
Bread &#38; 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 &#38; Broth volunteers serve those in need a well balanced nutritious meal to people from the community.
The volunteers from our local Kiwanis have been very generous in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: JPAs need to be more transparent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, one passed. It has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Time to put democracy back into elections</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;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 for a national campaign to reverse a 2-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Being 1 percenter is not something to be ashamed of</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill O&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Ideas for saving money on higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 23, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle.
From the University of California&#8217;s ultra-select medical school to the state&#8217;s scores of commuter colleges, hard financial times are forcing new approaches. The responses are challenging, disruptive and in need of more study, but they&#8217;re a starting point for a big question: How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Legalizing drugs is constitutional</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Kieffer
I believe states have the constitutional right to legalize drugs. For, the Constitution is silent on the federal government’s ability to regulate or ban substances that adults choose to digest at their own peril—or medical relief.
The Constitution is so silent on this matter of individual liberty (choosing to digest or use drugs) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Accomplishments and challenges of sheriff&#8217;s department</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the citizens of El Dorado County,
The year 2011 is wrapped up, and so is my first year as your sheriff. This year end report is to provide you, the community we serve, with information outlining some of the achievements by the men and women who make up your sheriff’s office. I believe it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Freedom and the Internet are victorious</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tom McClintock
Long ago, Jefferson warned, “The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” The exceptions to that rule have been few and far between recently, and ought to be celebrated when they occur.
One did this past week with the announcement that supporters of the so-called “Stop On-Line [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Brown&#8217;s budget ideas decimate child care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Asato
On Jan. 6, 2012, Gov. Brown released his 2012-13 budget proposing severe changes and devastating budget cuts to the systems that support low-income children and families. These proposed cuts destroy the pathway to success for children and families and dismantles decades of investment in California’s long-established system of child-care services that support the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Winter&#8217;s arrival means taking precautions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Trista Cunningham
The foothills and Sierra regions are prone to winter storms, and the Capital Region Chapter of the American Red Cross urges residents to take steps now to stay safer when severe weather threatens.
&#8220;By preparing together for winter storms, we can make our families safer and our communities stronger,” Christy Woods, director of preparedness, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: State, union leave TTUSD no choice but to layoff teachers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Steve Jennings
Financial news for school districts has taken a turn for the worse over the past month. School funding shortfalls at the state level have caused a mid-year drop in revenue for busing that will impact Tahoe Truckee Unified School District by about $500,000 this year and $1 million a year starting next fall.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Boosting U.S. tourism a good idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 20, 2012, Reno Gazette-Journal.
President Barack Obama got off to a bad start with Nevadans when, early in his administration, he told federal government agencies to avoid Las Vegas when scheduling meetings.
The president undoubtedly meant no slur on the Silver State. It was, rather, a ham-handed attempt to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Is Internet freedom or Web piracy the bigger issue?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 20, 2012, Los Angeles Times.
Wikipedia went dark for a day. Google hid its logo under a black shroud. And hundreds of other websites darkened their pages temporarily in a massive, coordinated protest against a pair of bills that would step up enforcement of copyrights and trademarks. Wednesday&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Water bond needs to be taken off the table</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 12, 2012, Orange County Register.
The last thing California needs now is more state bonds, with the interest and principal paid from the general fund. The state already can&#8217;t pay its current bills, including debt service on past bonds.
There are signs the Legislature might dump from the November [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Demise of Kodak a good example of a free market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Thomas Sowell
The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era.
The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far beyond those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: EPA is gambling with U.S. economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marita Noon
Folks who stop at a slot machine in the Las Vegas airport between flights can usually risk the few dollars that will probably disappear, but the serious gambler—whether the stock market, the ponies, or cards—assesses the risk before they cash in their chips. Even then, they make miscalculations. That’s why they call it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: California budget more like a roulette wheel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Publisher&#8217;s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 13, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle.
California&#8217;s roulette-wheel tax system is casting further doubt on a budget that is already facing the uncertainty over how deeply legislators will cut social services and whether wary voters will approve two new taxes.
Gov. Jerry Brown is pushing a tax and cut package [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Grateful for giving community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the community,
The fundraiser committee for Jake Fonken &#38; Taryn Callahan would like to thank you all so very much for your kindness, care, and thoughtfulness.
The turnout for the fundraiser on Jan. 6 was amazing and donations for the silent auction and raffle exceeded all expectations.
We would also like to thank the Flight Deck at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Barton proactively pursues health of the South Shore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Williams
The New Year has always been the perfect time to reflect and look ahead with a fresh perspective. As the primary wellness provider for the South Lake Tahoe area, I would like to address questions you may have about the future of healthcare and what Barton Health has planned for 2012 and beyond.
With [...]]]></description>
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