To the community, Helping to meet the needs of those who struggle with hunger, Bread & Broth serves evening meals on Mondays at St. Theresa Church Grace Hall and Thursdays at Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church. B&B is able to serve these meals thanks to the generosity of our many community sponsors and donors. Hosting […]
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By Brian Uhler Community outreach: The Meet the Police outreach campaign is going well. As a reminder, Coffee with a Cop happens on Thursdays and ends on Aug. 27. The Police Open House was well attended and we look forward to doing it again next year. Operation Chill: To make connections with younger people in […]
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By Debra Carpenter, Huffington Post “Come on, it’s time to go! I’m burning up out here!” I sat at the neighborhood park, ablaze with the summer heat and more than a little irritated that my daughter was taking so long to finish her “last” go around on the jungle gym. She continued to play, blissfully […]
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By David Bornstein, New York Times In the early 1990s, about 50 kindergarten teachers were asked to rate the social and communication skills of 753 children in their classrooms. It was part of the Fast Track Project, an intervention and study administered in Durham, N.C., Nashville, Seattle and central Pennsylvania. The goals were to understand […]
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To the community, Two spectacularly bad ideas: Martis Valley West (MVW) and the Brockway Campground (BC) are Proposals with cumulative impacts: 1. Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) and Mountainside Partners (aka East/West) is the developer on both. 2. Both adjacent projects are located on the ridge overlooking Tahoe and Truckee one mile west from Highway 267 […]
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By Alex Horton, Washington Post Alex Horton is a member of the Defense Council at the Truman National Security Project. He served as an infantryman in Iraq with the Army’s 3rd Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. I got home from the bar and fell into bed soon after Saturday night bled into Sunday morning. I didn’t […]
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By Joe Mathews Do you worry about the future of California? Then you should worry about Salinas. Because if this Monterey County town of 155,000 can’t build itself a brighter future, it’s hard to imagine other struggling places doing the same. “Rich in land. Rich in Values. Ripe With Opportunity,” reads the slogan on a […]
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By Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times On July 19 the collapse of a “functionally obsolete” bridge shut down nearly 50 miles of Interstate 10. What was the problem? Too much rain, too little infrastructure. Infrastructure? Don’t stop reading: Your life, literally, depends on infrastructure. Steven P. Erie, a political science professor at UC San Diego, […]
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By Dereck Joubert, National Geographic In the wake of Cecil the lion’s killing in Zimbabwe we are seeing real conversations about hunting: its viability and its ethics. It has opened some tough discussions, like if we should all boycott Zimbabwe, or whether lion hunting is in any shape or form a viable conservation tool. I don’t think […]
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To the community, The USFS has done the deed. The trees have been cut. The campground will never again be the same. I walked through it with dismay. As I looked at the big piles of dead trees and slash, and also at the few left standing, I asked myself why this is necessary? I […]
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