To the community, As the Bread & Broth dinner guests were lining up outside of St. Theresa Church’s Grace Hall, the volunteers from the Tahoe Sierra Kiwanis Club were busy helping the Bread & Broth volunteers prepare for the evening’s free meal on Jan. 12. As the evening’s Adopt A Day of Nourishment sponsor, Kiwanis […]
Read more
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 18, 2015, Las Vegas Sun. After Gov. Brian Sandoval’s State of the State speech last week, some people said he sounded like a moderate Republican, others said he sounded like a conservative Democrat. We thought he sounded like a classic Nevada governor, the type we have known […]
Read more
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 21, 2015, Los Angeles Times. Today, the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe vs. Wade, the House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks. The bill is expected to pass the House and may pass […]
Read more
By John L. Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal At least we now know why the Democrats didn’t recruit a substantial candidate against Gov. Brian Sandoval in the last election. It would have been hard to find anyone capable of running to the left of our popular Republican. But given the sorry state of Nevada’s public education […]
Read more
By Jeff Baldwin ad Asher Sheppard, Santa Rosa Press Democrat Human population is often overlooked when we think about climate change. Yes, industrialization brings the greenhouse gases now warming the Earth, but it also affects world population, the proportions of young and old, where people live, what they consume and how their food is grown. […]
Read more
By Tom Hanks, New York Times In 1974, I graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland, an underachieving student with lousy SAT scores. Allowed to send my results to three colleges, I chose M.I.T. and Villanova, knowing such fine schools would never accept a student like me but hoping they’d toss some car stickers my […]
Read more
To the community, The Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce thanks the community for supporting local food banks at the annual BAHM for Charity at Riva Grill on Jan. 15. Over 100 people attended and together we raised $3,650 for charities Christmas Cheer All Year and Bread and Broth. We couldn’t have been more […]
Read more
To the community, My name is Morgan and I’ve been in search of my grandfather for the past 10 years. I was hoping if I provided some information maybe someone would remember him. The story takes place in Zephyer Cove between 1961-1963 at what was once The Shoals restaurant owned by Jean and Herman Strucker. […]
Read more
By Casey Beyer As the incoming chair of the 15-member Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board, this promises to be a hopeful and exciting year. 2015 will be full of opportunities, but also challenges, for the continued protection of Lake Tahoe. The No. 1 priority among our challenges is funding shortfalls. Federal and state funding that […]
Read more
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 3, 2015, Fresno Bee. One of the worst droughts on record forced California lawmakers and voters to implement far-reaching initiatives intended to change how the state manages water. And while the policy shifts last year were remarkable, Californians did not achieve the goal of conservation set by […]
Read more