The Squaw Valley Community of Writers’ annual poetry reading featuring poets Robert Hass, Kazim Ali, Sharon Olds, and CD Wright at the Olympic Village Lodge, 1907 Chamonix Place (off Squaw Valley Road) is June 28 at 8pm. This reading is an opportunity to hear these renowned poets read their work. Often they will read new […]
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The Wilderness Land Trust has acquired the last remaining 160-acre private acres that could have blocked access to the Thornburg Canyon Trail near Markleeville. It covers more than eight miles point-to-point from Blue Lakes Road at 9,000 feet to the quaint mountain town of Markleeville at 5,500 feet. The purchase of this property builds on […]
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By Ashlee Vance, Bloomberg Businessweek At 71, Dave Duffield ought to be retired. He’s spent a half-century starting technology companies and is worth billions. He has a $35 million Dassault Falcon 900EX jet, homes in the Bay Area and Palm Springs, and a seven-building vacation compound on Lake Tahoe with plenty of space for his […]
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By Tom Goldman, NPR Title IX, which turns 40 on Saturday, has helped reverse years of bias, banning sex discrimination in federally funded schools and colleges. Its guarantee of equal access to sports was a small part of the original legislation. But it’s become the most recognizable part of Title IX. That guarantee has not […]
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By Claudio Sanchez, NPR Forty years ago, former President Richard Nixon signed Title IX, which said no person shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from any education program or activity. Vocational education courses that barred girls — such as auto mechanics, carpentry and plumbing — became available for everyone. But it’s still hard […]
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‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (or What Really Caused The Civil War?)’ Rated R 4 bagels out of 5 By Howie Nave There’s something very cool about taking a historical event in time and then using that as the backdrop for a movie that leaves you thinking, “Hmmmm. Maybe that really did happen after all.” I […]
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The fourth and final day of Lake Tahoe News’ four-part series on Angora Fire — 5 years later will run June 24. Sunday’s stories will be about life in dispatch that fateful day, words from Lahontan water board, former South Lake Tahoe Mayor Kathay Lovell’s perspective and the pet cemetery. If you missed the June […]
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By Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post Marijuana use among teens has been on the rise for some time–it’s become more popular than smoking cigarettes in recent years–but a provocative new study shows that legalizing pot for medical purposes doesn’t increase the chance that teens will abuse it or certain other drugs. “There is anecdotal evidence that […]
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By Ted Gaines Five years ago Sunday, the terrible Angora Fire swept through the Lake Tahoe Basin, destroying 254 homes, buildings, and changing lives and landscapes forever. While we will never be able to tame nature completely, public safety is government’s highest priority and government leaders must always be improving their response to emergencies and […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s easy not to want to paddle in Trout Creek. Listening and watching are the preferred activities. If only the binoculars were in the canoe. A cackle of chirping birds makes it seem like we’ve entered an aviary. Unfamiliar calls fill the air. Flitting about are species we don’t recognize. Later, Tom […]
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