RMC, a longstanding destination management and special events company with six operations in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, is moving west this month with the addition of its Lake Tahoe California/Nevada operation. RMC was also recently hired to be the exclusive destination service provider partner for the Ritz-Carlton at Northstar. The RMC Lake Tahoe division will […]
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By Robert Leeson The cause of financial crises – and thus the central malfunction of capitalism – is the discretion allocated to banks to stop lending. If such destabilizing discretion were exercised by a foreign dictator, and if the economic flow were related to oil or shipping lanes, it would be regarded as a national […]
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North Lake Tahoe will host the 2012 Mountain Travel Symposium, one of the world’s premier ski industry wholesale conferences. The April 15-21 conference will be at Resort at Squaw Creek. North Lake Tahoe hosted the symposium in 2006, with 1,200 attendees. “Mountain Travel Symposium is the biggest and longest running annual contracting and networking gathering […]
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By Katherine E. Hill KINGS BEACH – Wanted: Local residents and business owners to serve for at least two years on one of four committees to help direct future planning and growth on Tahoe’s North and West shores. That’s the message from Placer County officials at a recent meeting on the Community Plan Update, a […]
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By USA Today Want first crack at the runs in Aspen? The Aspen Skiing Co. is offering an “Ultimate Ski Pass” that will let you have unlimited first tracks before chairlifts open to the public – for $25,000. If you’re itching to beat other skiers to the slopes and ready to pay for the privilege, […]
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By Peter J. Boyer, Newsweek In the spring of 2010, a bespectacled, middle-aged policy wonk named Peter Schweizer fired up his laptop and began a months-long odyssey into a forbidding maze of public databases, hunting for the financial secrets of Washington’s most powerful politicians. Schweizer had been struck by the fact that members of Congress […]
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• Two vacancies (chamber and at-large) will occur on the Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee in Lake Tahoe Unified School District on Jan. 31. For more info, call (530) 541.2850, ext. 225. • Sierra Nevada Alliance has promoted Kay Ogden to associate director. Ogden has served for the last six years as the development director. • […]
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News Lake Tahoe area real estate agents, hungry for sales in the aftermath of the housing bubble, are counting on the Bay Area’s booming tech industry to help generate the next crop of million-dollar vacation home buyers. Sales of million dollar-plus Tahoe homes are down about 30 percent from […]
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By Tom Torlakson Parents, teachers, administrators and members of Congress all seem to agree on this much: It’s time for No Child Left Behind to go. But what should take its place? As a teacher and state superintendent of public instruction, I’ve seen the shortcomings of this federal law firsthand: — Mislabeling as failures schools […]
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The holiday season is here and this year the American Red Cross is urging people to give something that means something by donating to the Red Cross and helping those in need. The Red Cross has launched a holiday fund-raising campaign, asking everyone to go online to make a donation in the name of the […]
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