By Nancy Kerry On June 17, 2014, the City Council held a workshop regarding the city’s five-year financial forecast and the overall economic forecast for the local community. While the forecast has improved, we need to attract substantial capital investment over the next 10 years to grow the economy, meet the community’s needs and fund […]
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By Larry Weitzman Dysfunction is the key word within the title of the grand jury report published June 25 regarding the El Dorado County Charter. Most, if not all, grand juries are suppose to be fact finders, and although I didn’t examine the entire report to see if other areas of the report had fact […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 9, 2014, New York Times. California is in the third year of its worst drought in decades. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at how much water the state’s residents and businesses are using. According to a recent state survey, Californians cut the amount of water […]
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By Robert Reich A few weeks ago I was visited in my office by the chairman of one of the country’s biggest high-tech firms who wanted to talk about the causes and consequences of widening inequality and the shrinking middle class, and what to do about it. I asked him why he was concerned. “Because […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee From its inception – first as a Spanish colony, later as part of Mexico, briefly as an independent nation and finally as a state – California has been a youthful society. Waves of young immigrants, drawn by its expansive opportunities to find fame and fortune, and periodic surges in its […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun When drowning in debt, most people know they shouldn’t splurge on a new mansion, buy a high-end sports car or drool over a 150-foot yacht. Caesars Entertainment Corp. didn’t learn that lesson. The Las Vegas casino giant, weighed down by almost $24 billion in IOUs stemming from a 2008 […]
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To the community, The Barton Health staff at Barton Hospice and the Barton Foundation would like to thank the many volunteers and sponsors that helped to make the seventh annual Camp Sunrise, a children’s bereavement camp, a success once again. Camp Sunrise is a free camp offered to children ages 7 through 14 who have […]
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By Kim Brooks, Salon Like so many depressive, creative, extremely lazy high-school students, I was saved by English class. I struggled with math and had no interest in sports. Science I found interesting, but it required studying. I attended a middling high school in central Virginia in the mid-’90s, so there were no lofty electives […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County’s chief administrative officer, Terri Daly, has a history. Before she came to El Dorado County, she was the CAO of Amador County from 2007 to 2010. Prior to that she was the assistant CAO of Amador County for about a year and a half. Before assuming that post she […]
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By Christopher Solomon, New York Times You won’t hear it on your summer hike above the bird song and the soft applause of aspen leaves, but there’s a heresy echoing through America’s woods and wild places. It’s a debate about how we should think about, and treat, our wilderness in the 21st century, one with […]
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