By Dave Zook, Moonshine Ink Scaling a glistening slab of vertical blue ice with only a few centimeters of steel crampon points and ice tools pierced into the frozen water, the going is slow, demanding, and dangerous. Nevertheless, a small legion of Tahoe ice climbers is dedicated to finding the small window when ice climbing […]
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By Riley Snyder, AP Nevada lawmakers are introducing competing bills aimed at closing the gender pay gap. Assembly and Senate Democrats rallied with sign-toting supporters in front of the state legislative building earlier this week, calling on lawmakers to pass a bill requiring women and minority groups to be paid equally. State Sen. Pat Spearman […]
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By Ray Wiles, High Country News One of the environmental movement’s most legendary characters was also a traumatized war vet. You might remember George Washington Hayduke for his inventive, destructive antics, but he was also a man who measured road miles by the number of six-packs it took him to drink while driving and whose […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories Lake Tahoe News will be running leading up to the 50th anniversary of South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 30. By Kathryn Reed One reason South Lake Tahoe incorporated 50 years ago was to have a greater say in how it was governed. Residents were a […]
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By Kathryn Reed California and Nevada state senators are working to revive the good neighbor policy so students in the Lake Tahoe Basin would not have to pay out of state tuition to attend nearby community colleges. State Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, on Feb. 27 introduced the legislation — known as SB605. His counterpart in […]
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By Jim Puzzanghera, Los Angeles Times In approving strong net neutrality regulations, the Federal Communications Commission fulfilled a decadelong desire by public interest advocates, technology firms and Democrats to tighten government oversight of the Internet to prevent abuses by broadband service providers. ANALYSIS But the agency’s closely watched decision on Thursday didn’t end the debate. […]
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By Kathryn Reed The University of California, Davis at South Lake Tahoe? It’s being talked about. El Dorado County wants a branch campus of UC Davis to possibly be located on the West Slope near the county line with Sacramento, or on Lake Tahoe Community College’s campus, or both. The Board of Supervisors on March […]
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By Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post The nation’s first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags will not go into effect this summer after all. The California secretary of state’s office announced Tuesday that a referendum to overturn the measure has qualified for the November 2016 ballot. The state confirmed that the trade group American Progressive Bag […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Amid stubborn drought conditions, more Californians are warming to the prospect of government-imposed mandatory water rationing, but a majority still favor the state’s current approach of urging residents to voluntarily curtail their water use. Support for rationing swelled to more than a third of voters in the latest statewide Field […]
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By Kathryn Reed She wheels around what looks like an oversized briefcase. It’s heavy. People ask why she does it. Her answer – it’s her office. This is Julie Ewing’s reality. For 12 years she has been an adjunct faculty member in Lake Tahoe Community College’s English Department. As such, she doesn’t have an office […]
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