To the community, Design Workshop, a local landscape architectural company, was the generous sponsor for Bread & Broth’s dinner served on Jan. 27 at St. Theresa Church’s Grace Hall. This was their first time hosting a B&B dinner. Gina Montecallo, one of Design Workshop’s landscape designers, said, “Great to give back to the community and […]
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To TRPA, local jurisdiction members and the community, I attended the January TRPA Governing Board meeting (as I attend most) and was astounded at the verbal accosting of a member of the public and the general treatment of this person by TRPA and local jurisdiction staff and associated consultants, and other members of the planning […]
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To the community, The city is a corporation. It has a board of directors. It has a chief executive, the city manager. It has a legal department led by the city attorney. The shareholders are the citizens of the city. The citizens who created the parking meter initiative that has been prepared for the ballot […]
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Publisher’s note: The Tahoe 4 Tahoe Committee sent this letter Feb. 2 to the City Council to outline the process that was followed to bring the parking initiative to the voters of South Lake Tahoe. The council on Feb. 4 will discuss the election process for the parking initiative. Dear Mayor and Council Members, The […]
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By Tony Lashbrook I kicked off the New Year by cleaning up my desk and office so that I can think more clearly about the coming year. While 2013 was a banner year for the town of Truckee, 2014 has the potential to be even better. Our economy has more than stabilized — transient occupancy […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee At the very end of his State of the State address to the Legislature last week, Gov. Jerry Brown – almost as an afterthought – tersely declared, “We have too many struggling families …” Well, yes, we do. In fact, according to an alternate Census Bureau method of calculating poverty […]
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By Marc Peruzzi, Outside I was a state college kid the first and only time I rode a snowboard. This was in the 1980s and snowboarding was still illegal at New Hampshire’s ski resorts. A classmate from New York City named after Dylan Thomas (and who called everybody he didn’t like a chucklehead) brought a […]
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To the community, Last week several sources published a report that Angela Swanson was cleared of bribery charges. They simply quoted what the district attorney said as if it is fact. You asked no one else to comment while knowing full well that many of us came to question the district attorney’s actions and in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Unemployment, jobs and the economy were big topics in President Obama’s State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. “Inequality has deepened. Upward mobility has stalled. The cold, hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery, too many Americans are working more than ever just to get by – let […]
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To the community, Wearing “Rotarians at Work!” T-shirts, five members of the South Lake Tahoe Rotary Club ladled out heaping servings of the evening’s dinner fare of a “Fanciful Frittata”. The mushroom, onion, bacon and bell pepper frittata was the main course of the “Adopt A Day of Nourishment” dinner that the Rotary Club sponsored […]
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