Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the May 2, 2016, Stamford Advocate. If children are confused about the meaning of Memorial Day, that’s on us. Collectively, we have not been the best stewards of the most somber of our national holidays. As time sweeps further from its origins in the wake of the Civil War […]
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By Julie Johnson, Santa Rosa Press Democrat Investigators suspect a 27-year-old Rohnert Park man missing for 10 days was the victim of an unprovoked, deadly attack at a remote Mendocino County marijuana farm where he and his suspected killer were paid laborers. The body of Timothy William Sweeting has not been found, but Mendocino County […]
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By Zara Kessler, Bloomberg Those basement-dwelling millennials are at it again. In 2014, Americans 18 to 34 years old were a little bit likelier to be living in their parents’ home than with a spouse or partner in their own household, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data, released this […]
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The Broadway smash-hit “Cabaret” is coming to Lake Tahoe Community College June 10-19. “Cabaret” takes place in 1930, with American writer Cliff Bradshaw arriving in Berlin to search for excitement and “something to write about.” He visits the seedy Kit Kat Klub, where the enigmatic emcee, the enticing but self-absorbed singer Sally Bowles, and a […]
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By Steve Reilly, USA Today Mossack Fonseca, the focus of the Panama Papers leak, is far from the only company mass-producing shell companies in secrecy-friendly states like Wyoming, Nevada and Delaware. A USA Today examination of the limited records that are available — some states are making corporate records increasingly invisible — shows that Mossack Fonseca registered less than 2 percent of […]
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By Larry Weitzman 2016 marks the new Lexus RX 350. And it is almost all new, as about the only carryover is the 3.5L V-6 and even that has changed with more horsepower. Styling has improved in an evolutionary manner. If it looks sleeker, it is as it is 5 inches longer (192.5) and rides […]
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By Associated Press State auditors say groups paid to educate people about Nevada’s health insurance exchange often didn’t give adequate proof that they did the outreach they billed for. Lawmakers reviewed findings Tuesday on the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, which pays $4 million each year to groups that do marketing, outreach and enrollment assistance […]
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A panel of professionals on June 8 will talk about how to best show and sell art. Panelists include: Dennis Doyle of Fallon, professional photographer; Judith Monroe of Sacramento, mixed media artist; Lee Pollock of South Lake Tahoe, bronze sculptor; Richard Bell Smith of Phoenix, bronze and copper sculptor’ and Tahoe’s Kelly Smith Cassidy, bronze […]
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To the community, Why have so many organizations aligned with Parker Development in wanting to stop the Yes Campaign for Measures E and G? In 2004 El Dorado County adopted a General Plan which was challenged with a referendum giving the voters in the county the opportunity decide whether or not to adopt the plan. […]
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By Jill Colvin and Ellen Knickmeyer, AP FRESNO — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump told California voters Friday that he can solve their water crisis, declaring, “There is no drought.” California is, in fact, in midst of a drought. Last year capped the state’s driest four-year period in its history, with record low rainfall […]
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