To the commmunity, The Tahoe Community Church Food Pantry would like to say thank you for the support from this community. Thank you to the Kiwanis Club of Lake Tahoe for their very generous donation of $1,000. Thank you to the Girl Scout Troop No. 238 for their donation of non-perishable food. Thank you to […]
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By JT Davis Steve Kubby recently posted an op-ed piece, personally attacking me and my father. I am here to set the record straight once and for all. First, I have never made any threats to Kubby or his safety as a resident of Lake Tahoe. Second, just because I choose to work in a […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to Heavenly Mountain Resort for recently adopting a Day of Nourishment. Employees of the resort were on hand last month to help serve more than 120 meals. The generous donation of their time and money is greatly appreciated. Nora Jones, Bread & […]
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By Steve Kubby As a Libertarian, I respect the First Amendment and people’s right to express their opinion, no matter how harsh, especially if I choose to write something and others choose to criticize what I have written. However, I have a serious problem when someone ignores the facts and attacks me personally and that […]
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By Judah Cohen The earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside. Over the past few weeks, subzero temperatures in Poland claimed 66 lives; snow arrived in Seattle well before the winter solstice, and fell heavily enough in Minneapolis to make the roof of the Metrodome collapse; and last week blizzards […]
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A new day, a new month, a new year, a new decade. Welcome to 2011. Resolutions so often fall flat. Either the conviction to make them happen wanes or their unrealistic nature renders them unachievable. What if we started small with our resolutions for the coming year? Whether you call it paying it forward or […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Dec. 26, 2010, Sacramento Bee. As it turned out, the recently concluded lame-duck session of Congress wasn’t as lame as many had predicted. In fact, it turned out to be one of the most productive in years, even decades. Picking up on one of the messages sent by […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Dec. 29, 2010, Reno Gazette-Journal. The four-year term of Jim Gibbons as governor of Nevada started quietly and out of the view of the public early on New Year’s Day in 2007 — for security purposes and to ensure that the state wouldn’t be without a chief executive, […]
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By Gary Arant As people focus their attention on water supply issues and rates, I often hear this question: “Why are there so many water agencies?” As with the issue of “we conserve and you raise rates,” this is a complex issue involving a little geography and history. Most of the state’s water occurs naturally […]
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To the community, St. Theresa’s 5th Annual Community Christmas Dinner was a heartwarming success thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers who came out to plan, organize, decorate, set-up, shop, cook, greet, serve, entertain and clean up; far too many to name, but you all know who you are. In all, about 200 meals were […]
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