By Robert Schimmel We boys escaped from the mountaintop to the flatland recently and it was a huge reminder of how much more one can gain from periodically, if not regularly, taking in an artist’s original work and actually looking behind the veil of the usual presentations in a book or on a website. Case […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the loop road project were completed, will a section of South Lake Tahoe become a ghost town as drivers avoid a significant commercial segment of town, or will it stimulate the economy? If Highway 50 and city streets in the Stateline area were left as they are, will this be good […]
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Nancy Kerry will be city manager of South Lake Tahoe at least until Oct. 1. The City Council at a special meeting Tuesday night voted 4-1 to put Kerry, who is current assistant city manager until Tony O’Rourke leaves at the end of June, in the top job. Councilman Tom Davis was the lone dissenter. […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County judiciary’s penchant for doing things its own way has run afoul of a state appeals court. The bottom-line question before the higher court was: Can judges ignore a law they don’t like and make their own rule? A resounding “No” was the answer from the Sacramento-based […]
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By Helen M. Poulos and James G. Workman Ronald Reagan once justified logging with “a tree is a tree; how many more do you need to look at?” Besides, he warned, “trees cause more pollution than automobiles.” We cringed at his biases. Yet due to forces none foresaw, Reagan’s gaffes may now ring true. Today, […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee For years, the organization behind the counterculture festival Burning Man has been urging participants to live year-round by the ideals espoused during its weeklong occupation of the Nevada Black Rock Desert. A sudden ticket shortage just might be kicking that effort into high gear. Two weekends ago, as many as […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee Nine-year-old Jordan Freer succeeded in her swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco on Memorial Day. The third-grader from Lotus in El Dorado County is one of the youngest people to make the swim. Her father, Tom, who swam with his daughter, said all went well. “Tough conditions but they were […]
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By Sallie Dean Shatz, New York Times SALT LAKE CITY — The Wasatch Range, towering over an arid, urban sprawl of a million people, provides two important assets that are increasingly at odds — a vital supply of water for residents and pristine snow for a ski industry that rakes in $1.2 billion a year. […]
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In 1986, when the Humvee was brand new, the price was $173,000. In 2012, the used Humvee cost the South Lake Tahoe Police Department zero dollars. It came to the department from the military. South Side Auto Body painted it for free. Some cash will be put out by the department to equip it the […]
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