By Kathryn Reed An artist is what Ed Laine always wanted to be. But he didn’t expect it to involve a camera. He had majored in art at the University of Oregon, with the idea he would be creating pottery as a living. But life isn’t always predictable. Collecting a hundred bucks a month making […]
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By Sherrilyn Ifill, MSNBC May 17 marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the constitutional moment that compelled our country to reckon with its history and confront the unfulfilled promise of equality first articulated in our founding documents. Brown literally changed America. It was a mid-20th century […]
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By Henry C. Jackson, AP WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators on Thursday unveiled a compromise bill that authorizes billions of dollars for water projects over the next decade, from flood protections in California to deepening Georgia’s rapidly growing Port of Savannah. Lawmakers released details of the Water Resources Reform and Development act a week […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the number of people who showed up at a meeting this week about South Lake Tahoe’s plastic bag ban is an indication of it how it is working, it’s working well. Four members of the public attended the May 14 meeting to talk about what is working and what isn’t. Mayor […]
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By Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times The more physically active you are at age 25, the better your thinking tends to be when you reach middle age, according to a large-scale study. Encouragingly, the findings also suggest that if you negligently neglected to exercise when young, you can start now and still improve the health […]
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If it seems like the Sierra are getting taller, it’s because they are. Depletion of groundwater is causing the Sierra Nevada mountains to rise, according to a study published in the journal Nature on May 14. “We first wrote two years ago about the rapid rise of the Sierra, with its 14,000-foot peaks in the […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News convened an editorial panel of six South Shore residents to decide on this endorsement for the June primary. Politics in judicial races can be troubling because those wearing the revered black robe are on the bench in what is supposed to be an impartial role. They are there to follow […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting was found not guilty today on three felony charges of political malfeasance, but was convicted of six misdemeanors for improperly raising bail to free himself from jail. The charges stemmed from income Nutting received from a state fire safety program for clearing brush on […]
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By AP After months of warning that drought-stricken California is facing a potentially devastating wildfire season, officials are telling residents it’s time to get serious about clearing brush from backyards, creating evacuation plans and exercising caution with equipment that can throw sparks. CalFire declared fire season open in most of Northern California on Monday and […]
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By Kathryn Reed For nearly 40 years the Valhalla Art, Music & Theatre Festival has been staged at the Tallac Site on the South Shore. But for the last few years music has not had equal billing. That is about to change. “I want to get the music to the level of what the theater […]
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