By Jessie Marchesseau MEYERS – At a special meeting last week, the Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District board of directors unanimously approved a resolution to convert the resort improvement district to a recreation and park district. One of only seven RIDs remaining in the state. The TPRID board has been discussing this move for years. […]
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By Dante Disparte, Harvard Business Review With the Trump Administration’s surprising U-turn on the COP21 Paris Agreement, the U.S. finds itself with some strange bedfellows, joining Nicaragua and Syria in abstaining from this important treaty. The White House’s argument for leaving the treaty is based on economic nationalism: President Trump, in his speech announcing the […]
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By Howie Nave When you’re watching a movie has that feel to it that it wants to be the next franchise and comes across as trying too hard, you kind of get the feeling already that it’s not going to be a great flick (or even a good one). In fact, watching the trailers before […]
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There will be a memorial service on June 24, 2017, for Valerie Ann Naples Smith. She died March 21, 2017, at the age of 51. She had battled cancer for 18 years. Val was born Nov. 26, 1965, in Burlingame. She grew up in the Bay Area in the hills of Belmont. Val graduated with […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee If you’re a renter in California concerned about the high cost of living here, or looking to purchase your first home, your prospects aren’t looking up. Projections show rents will continue to surge, especially for low- and middle-income people in places like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento, and […]
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By Daria Sokolova, Pahrump Valley Times Sens. Dean Heller, R-Nev., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced bipartisan legislation that aims to expand access to broadband by streamlining the application process required to construct broadband infrastructure on federal lands, the news release said. The legislation seeks to address the delays by expediting the Department of Interior and […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A dirt bike motorcyclist who spent the night injured in an El Dorado County mountain ravine after he crashed was rescued Sunday by CHP officers and sheriff’s deputies. The motorcyclist, who had been camping with his family, left for a ride by himself Saturday afternoon. When he didn’t return, the […]
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To the community, It takes team work to crew a sailboat and the Lake Tahoe Windjammer Yacht Club members brought their team skills to help the Bread & Broth volunteers serve the June 5 Monday meal dinner at St. Theresa Grace Hall. Representing the LT Windjammers at their Adopt A Day of Nourishment dinner were […]
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· John Hopper, vice chairman of the California Tahoe Conservancy board, resigned effective after last week’s meeting. He had been appointed to the board by the speaker of the California Assembly in 1985. · Boaters are reminded there is a 600-foot no wake zone around the entire shoreline of Lake Tahoe. · Nevada Department of […]
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Lake Tahoe Windjammers Yacht Club’s annual sailing skills clinic will be June 24. It is for any experience level. Registration starts at 8:30am, with instruction beginning at 9am. It will be at the group’s clubhouse in the Tahoe Keys Marina in South Lake Tahoe. Lunch will be provided. On the water instruction will be in […]
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