By Kathryn Reed Jeffrey pine beetles love drought. It means trees are weaker and unable to fend off this species that is native to the Lake Tahoe Basin. It means they get to proliferate. What it means for the trees is more will die. This in turn creates more fuel for wildfires. Officials throughout the […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee For the third time in four years, advocates for altering public pensions have a plan they want to put to a statewide vote. But this time the proposal by pension-change advocates Chuck Reed and Carl DeMaio has a new twist: Pensions and other retirement benefits would automatically become a matter […]
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By Patrick McGreevy and Phil Wilson, Los Angeles Times The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would raise the minimum legal age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 as part of an effort to reduce smoking by young people. Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina, said he introduced the bill, […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Without the work of Charles Goldman, the scientific debate about issues concerning Lake Tahoe might be much different. The limnologist started studying this area in 1958 when he began teaching at UC Davis. His research is the basis for much of the work that is being done today to […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times The drought is on track to dry up $2.7 billion in revenue and erase more than 18,600 jobs from the California economy this year, according to a preliminary report. But that blow has been hard to detect because the agriculture sector is just 2% of the overall state economy […]
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By Rick Gladstone, New York Times The number of hungry people globally has declined from about 1 billion 25 years ago to about 795 million today, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the United Nations reported Wednesday. In developing regions, the number of hungry people has fallen to […]
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By Kathryn Reed When classes start Aug. 31 for the next school year, many familiar faces will no longer be roaming the halls of Lake Tahoe Unified School District. Many longtime employees are retiring. More than 600 years worth of educational experience are walking out the door as the school year comes to an end […]
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By Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski, Reveal A new law that attempts to preserve California’s precious groundwater comes with a catch: The state will hide the names of people draining this vast underground water source, Reveal has learned. The secrecy provision could make it impossible for the public to identify water wasters and learn whether […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the same week El Dorado County interim CAO Pamela Knorr wanted to cut senior programs she asked the Board of Supervisors to give key employees, including herself, a 15 percent raise. The raise was tucked into the June 2 consent agenda. This is usually where items that don’t need discussion from […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the approval of two items Tuesday, the South Lake Tahoe City Council took significant steps to mapping out the city’s future. One issue was the Tahoe Valley Area Plan and the other was single room occupancy hotels. The council members individually said how important these two votes were on June 2. […]
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