Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Oct. 9, 2012, Los Angeles Times. California’s record-breaking rise in gasoline prices over the last week was so sudden, and so apparently unjustified by the supply-and-demand factors that usually control markets, that it’s natural to suspect some kind of conspiracy at play. Among the suspicious is Sen. Dianne […]
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By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee Standing amid a scattering of stumps last week, an official from the U.S. Forest Service acknowledged the agency made mistakes by logging too many pine trees, including majestic old-growth giants, in an effort to help another Tahoe species: the quaking aspen. But he rejected calls from local residents that the […]
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There will be an exhibit of paintings by Peter Darvas and public reception on Oct. 13 from 1-9pm at the Ski Run Marina Art Gallery in South Lake Tahoe. Darvas lost his studio and home on Pioneer Trail on Sept. 18 when a fire destroyed the structure. For more information about the exhibit, call (530) […]
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By Dan Charles, NPR When Zarrina Mulloboeva got invited to go apple picking the other day, she thought it would be a taste of home. She’s an exchange student from Tajikistan, in central Asia — a country close to the ancestral homeland of apples. Her uncle has a small orchard. In fact, when Mulloboeva came […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee When Californians suffer under oppressive heat, as they have for weeks, another concern is sure to follow: drought. Long-term weather outlooks for the Golden State do not provide much reassurance. Although the stubborn heat that gripped the state finally started to ease Thursday, there is zero rain in the forecast. […]
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By Doug Harrison, CBC Sports Billie Jean King downed Bobby Riggs in tennis’ Battle of the Sexes in 1973, golf’s Michelle Wie played Luke Donald at the 2008 Reno-Tahoe Open and the following year Danica Patrick stepped behind the wheel against men at the Indy 500. So, how about American downhill specialist Lindsey Vonn, last […]
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Brooklyn poet Lexa Hillyer, winner of Bona Fide Book’s 2011 Melissa Lantis Gregory Poetry Prize, will read from her prize-winning collection on Nov. 2. Each year the Meyers publishing house chooses a work of poetry to publish in honor of Lantis. “Acquainted with the Cold” is this year’s selection. The Nov. 2 7pm event is […]
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To the community, It seems that we have the Queen of Hearts serving as mayor. In Alice in Wonderland when the Queen was unhappy with whomever or whatever in an angry burst, she shouted, off with their heads. In a recent rant our mayor, Claire Fortier, raved in a tantrum on how unreasonable so many […]
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National Family Partnership is having a national contest for its 27th annual Red Ribbon Week, Oct. 23-31. Red Ribbon Week is the oldest and largest drug prevention campaign in the country. Families can get involved by entering a contest to promote awareness in their neighborhoods and win a drug prevention grant for their schools. Families […]
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By Kathryn Reed FALLEN LEAF LAKE – Sunlight shines into campsites like never before. Piles of logs are scattered about the South Shore. Burn piles are dotting the landscape. Open space where trees once stood are visible from Camp Richardson to Fallen Leaf Lake. All of this is the result of the multi-million dollar, multi-year, […]
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