By Paul Rogers, Bay Area News Group Hoping for a March Miracle to bail out California’s dry winter? It’s not likely. A review of more than 100 years of rainfall records of major cities in California — including San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Rosa, Redding and Fresno — shows that none have ever […]
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By Kathryn Reed Rotting teeth fill the screen. Some are black from nicotine; some are decaying from drug use. Gums that have never been brushed reveal teeth that have seen better days and likely can’t be saved. It was like a science project gone bad unfolding before the students’ eyes. Only this was real life. […]
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By Doyle Rice, USA Today The dry times are back. Drought has returned with a vengeance across much of the United States, with the worst conditions across southern and western parts of the nation. As of Thursday, 38.4 percent of the continental U.S. is in a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. That is […]
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By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee California’s strides toward cleaner air can quickly go up in smoke during one big wildfire. The constant threat of wildfire calls for a radical shift in attitudes toward forest management, not just to save homes and lives but the state’s overall air and water quality. That conclusion spurred the state’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Marijuana – it seems to be the high point of so many South Lake Tahoe City Council meetings. Tuesday shouldn’t be any different. The morning will start with the electeds meeting in closed session to discuss the lawsuit with Tahoe Wellness Collective. Last month there was no reportable action when it was […]
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By John Jeremiah Sullivan, New York Times The history of snowboarding dates to 1938 in Yosemite National Park. A slight young man named Robert Trumbull, a Honolulu newspaper editor who wrote a weather column under the byline Sol Pluvius (Rainy Sun), was on vacation. Chicago-born, Trumbull had seen plenty of snow, and he had been […]
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By Michael Scott Davidson, Las Vegas Review-Journal As Nevada grapples with a massive shortage of affordable housing, state officials fear federal tax reform has stymied a long-standing funding resource. Since 1986 the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program has allowed private investors to reduce their federal tax liability if they help pay for the creation […]
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By Kathryn Reed While human trafficking – better known as forced prostitution – has been a subject of several talks in South Lake Tahoe, the extent of the problem locally has not been well documented. During a presentation last week someone asked how prevalent the problem is in South Lake Tahoe. The answer: “We don’t […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee Most California cities expect their spending on public employee pensions to climb by at least 50 percent over the next seven years, restricting their ability to fund basic services like public safety and parks, according to a study their lobbying organization released on Thursday. The report escalates the League of […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The T-shirt-wearing temperatures and lack of winter rain have combined to push nearly half of California into all-too-familiar territory: a state of drought. Less than a year after Gov. Jerry Brown declared an end to one of the worst droughts in California history, a consortium of nationwide water experts […]
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