To the community, Alan Plaugher, Kirkwood Mountain Resort’s ski patrol manager, had a great time helping the Bread & Broth volunteers feed 104 dinner guests at B&B’s evening meal served at St. Theresa Church Grace Hall on July 5. “We all are glad to help out with this community food feed. I was very impressed […]
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By Carl Richards, New York Times I have a crazy idea I want to run by you. Imagine that a cultural anthropologist finds one of your credit card statements in 100 years. What would your spending suggest you value the most? Based on your spending, what assumptions might someone make about how you live your […]
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By Philip Hoy In every classroom, there is a kind of tipping point when the unmotivated students either get pulled along by the high achievers, or the unmotivated students hold the high achievers back. I see this all the time teaching English at Coachella Valley High School in Southern California’s Inland Empire. Most of my […]
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By Toogee Sielsch On July 9, a family living on Minniconjou Drive in a neighborhood off Pioneer Trail in South Lake Tahoe had the pleasure of enjoying seeing one of our furry forest denizens cruising through their neighborhood. These are the kind of folks who feel getting a view from a safe distance of one […]
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By Andy Wirth There are rare circumstances whereby we as a society are OK with people misstating the truth. One of those circumstances, for instance, includes fishing stories that may go something like this: “We landed a big one over by Horseshoe Bar, but he got away.” It is not, however, acceptable when one deviates […]
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Publisher’s note: This column was first published in the Auburn Journal and is reprinted with permission. By Tom Mooers Denver-based KSL Capital Partners purchased Squaw Valley in 2010, and is now pursuing a sweeping set of entitlements that would remake the region with development of a size, scale and scope Tahoe has never seen. Their […]
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By Robert Westover Imagine if a hostile country sent an Unmanned Aircraft System or UAS, otherwise known as a drone, to disturb the efforts of firefighters during a catastrophic wildfire. The confusion that might ensue could cause loss of life and property as flames jump fire lines simply because resources have been diverted or grounded to […]
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By Zócalo It doesn’t take more than a stroll down a city street to see that America has a homelessness problem. The guy tucked into in a stained blanket on the bench, the woman pushing a cart filled with everything she owns — from New York to Los Angeles, there are more than half a […]
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By Joe Mathews Let’s stipulate that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong to dissent in last month’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. But Scalia was right when, in the same dissent, he suggested that California is a different place than the American West. And in so doing, he unwittingly raised an important question […]
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By Catherine Cecchi Despite a great outreach push from land managers and local jurisdictions, environmental groups, and area businesses for Tahoe residents and visitors to clean up after themselves as they celebrated the Fourth of July, the evidence from Sunday morning indicated that we continue to have a significant problem with littering as people celebrate […]
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