By Kathryn Reed “She has a very strong fiscal background, which is what we need.” That’s what college board member Fritz Wenck told Lake Tahoe News in May when Kindred Murillo was hired to be president of Lake Tahoe Community College. When it comes to numbers, she keeps being tested. Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget that […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District may be in violation of the California Voters Rights Act based on how board members are elected. While the CVRA was enacted in 2002, the 2010 Census is forcing all elected bodies to look at how people get into office and if constituents are fairly represented. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed REDDING – Nearly 10 miles of paved trails without ever getting onto a city street. Clearly, I must not be in Tahoe anymore. This spectacular ride was in Redding. More than 80 miles of paved and natural surface bike-pedestrian paths are scattered throughout Redding. But they are also linked so it makes […]
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By Kathryn Reed While it’s up to the recreation JPA board to decide how to spend the $15,000 that is estimated to be saved each year by refinancing the bonds, it is likely to go toward recreation on the South Shore instead of saving taxpayers a few cents on the $18 a year they pay […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – Would students or parents want to be at Whittell High School if it were to return to five days a week? That was an overriding question by some of the more than 40 people who attended a 90-minute workshop Thursday night regarding whether the 7-12 school should stay with […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe essentially won its case in which the League to Save Lake Tahoe sued to try to stop the General Plan from being a legal working document. U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell on Thursday dismissed the case that was filed last year after the City Council voted to approve […]
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By Jennifer Gurecki Barey’s eyes widened with wonder as she held the piece of paper in her hand. She struggled to decipher the words on the document, but understood its significance — the number, 5,000 Kenyan shillings, would be paid to her to start her own small business baking and selling chapati to support her […]
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By Kathryn Reed A $5 billion a year “industry” that has existed in California since 1945 is about to die. South Lake Tahoe’s redevelopment agency is one of more than 400 that must be dissolved by the end of the month because the state is eliminating property tax increment as a financing tool. Gov. Jerry […]
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By Anne Knowles Current efforts to improve the clarity of Lake Tahoe are not only a waste of time and money, they are a fraud. That’s the claim made in the inaugural newsletter of the Tahoe Pipe Club, a secretive coalition of “citizen, business owners, scientists and engineers,” according to its website, who are fed […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – News that a main sewer line may possibly run under where the intersection of highways 28 and 89 in Tahoe City could be relocated came as a surprise to transportation officials. Marcia Beals, general manager for the Tahoe-Truckee Sanitation Agency, dropped this piece of information on the Advisory Planning Commission […]
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