Natalie Yanish will officially be on the Kingsbury General Improvement District board. She and Bob McDowell received the same number of votes on Nov. 2, necessitating a tie-breaker. They appeared before Douglas County Clerk Ted Thran on Nov. 19 to draw cards — with the high card designating the new board member. Yanish drew an […]
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By Tom McClintock More than a year ago, pollster Frank Luntz stood before a group of about 40 House Republicans in a cramped conference room in the Longworth building. “I need to tell you something,” he said. “I’ve been looking at polling data from congressional districts across America for the last three months. I’m convinced […]
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Updated Nov. 19 at 9:12am. Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe, is back for the winter delivering daily ski reports each morning to readers of Lake Tahoe News. Yes, it’s still fall — but in Tahoe the calendar means very little when it comes to weather and outdoor fun. Heavenly opens Saturday if the winds […]
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By Stephen Ward During his 2003 tour in Iraq, Brian Turner’s humanity was confined within the white-and-blue lines of his college-ruled notebooks. His journal entries served as an intermediary; they were all that separated surges of poetry from diagrams for ambush. “The poems were more for capturing the moment,” he said, taking long pauses as […]
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Updated Nov. 19 at 2pm. By Kathryn Reed FALLEN LEAF LAKE — Smoke fills the air and the crackling of fire can be heard. But no one is in sight at this controlled burn and no evidence of water is in the area to suppress the flames if they were to get out of control. […]
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By Paul Saffo Small-town living has long been part of the American dream, but amid California’s fiscal crisis, it is becoming a nightmare. Cities like Vallejo have declared bankruptcy as municipal deficits deepen. Others, like Maywood in Southern California, have fired their city employees and outsourced everything from police and fire protection to pothole filling. […]
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Educators, administrators, parents, and college students packed two rooms in the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences at Sierra Nevada College on Nov. 4 for a screening of the educational documentary “Race to Nowhere”. In response to public demand, “Race to Nowhere” will be screened again Dec. 2 at 7pm at Sierra Nevada College, Tahoe Center […]
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Perched atop her Pathfinder, Jessica Day is oblivious to traffic whizzing by on Highway 89. Her focus is on Mount Tallac. Parked in front of the gate at the Tallac Historic Site, Day is sketching the mountain. Her goal is to redesign the shirts at The Brewery, one of two places she works. (The other […]
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By Kara Lapoint, Reno Gazette-Journal When Southwest Airlines first began service at Reno-Tahoe International Airport 20 years ago, it operated 12 nonstop flights to two cities, Las Vegas and Oakland, with just 15 employees. Today, the airline runs 28 non-stops from Reno-Tahoe to 12 different cities, with connecting service to 53 cities. It operates out […]
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The North Lake Tahoe-Truckee Leadership Program, embarking on its eighth year, is accepting applications for the 2011 program. This program creates an opportunity for potential leaders to broaden their understanding of the region and its issues, challenges and opportunities, while developing and honing their leadership skills. Since 2003, the program has graduated more than 165 […]
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