By Elizabeth Englander, The Conversation Despite legitimate concerns about the effects of placing school resource officers in the nation’s schools, the reality is having these officers on a school’s campus can literally save lives and avert tragedy. That much became clear on March 20, when school resource officer Blaine Gaskill rushed toward a shooter who […]
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By Susan Wood The epiphany occurs near the end of the book when it becomes quite clear that the times that try our souls the most are the ones that unite us like no other. In “Tribe” (Hachette Book Group Inc., 2016) acclaimed writer Sebastian Junger takes us through examples – some severe – in […]
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By Jessica Kutz, High Country News Congress accomplished something unprecedented last week: They passed a bipartisan solution to a knotty budget issue that has hobbled the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to do restoration and fire-prevention work in Western forests. The $1.3 trillion federal spending package, signed into law by President Trump, included a long-sought funding […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle “Stay out and stay alive.” That’s the message a state ranger has for anyone planning a little fun in the sun at Northern California rivers this weekend. Warming temperatures in the 70s together with a late-season snow can make for a deadly mix in the upper reaches of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe’s finances are stable today. Look again in November and it may be a completely different story. That will be one of the messages delivered Tuesday by Debbie McIntyre, the city’s finance director, when she goes over the midyear budget with the City Council. What could change in seven months […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Open a pack of convenience store gummy candies and it’s hard not to grab a handful at a time to satisfy your craving. But doing the same for a tube of marijuana gummy candies could leave users on the floor. Marijuana edibles have quickly become a hot seller in […]
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By Kathryn Reed It will take the will of community members to make the Lake Tahoe Humane Society relevant, solvent and functioning without a cloud of distrust. Today it is teetering on becoming just a memory. A handful of people gathered Thursday at the South Lake Tahoe office of the 51-year-old nonprofit, begging the board […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal A public employee’s personal devices are open to public inspection under the state’s public records laws, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled on Thursday. “We conclude that the (Nevada Public Records Act) does not categorically exempt public records maintained on private devices or servers from disclosure,” Justice Michael Cherry wrote […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Tahoe’s drastic, late-season snowpack recovery was the weather equivalent to the TV show “Fuller House,” a sequel that fueled nostalgia for the early 1990s but didn’t quite measure up to the original. From March 1 through Sunday snowpack in the Lake Tahoe area grew from 25 to 73 percent of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed No one foresees the threat of aquatic invasive species going away, so permanent inspection stations for boats are probably going to become the norm in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The first one is likely to be built in the Spooner Summit area. Nevada and U.S. Forest Service officials are studying it as […]
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