To the community, “Serving at Bread & Broth was fun and gives you a sense of fulfillment and being able to help those less fortunate,” said Randy Joslin, facilities director at Lake Tahoe Community College. Joining Joslin at Bread & Broth’s dinner on Nov. 4 were Dave Burba, director of IT; Cheri Jones, director of […]
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By Patrick Stelmach While stumping across the nation recently in favor of early childhood education, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discovered something interesting: More Republican governors than Democrats have increased funding at the state level for preschool programs. Actually, this should come as no surprise. Strong early education programs enjoy majority support from Americans […]
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By Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post The Obamacare website doesn’t work. Hundreds of thousands of insured Americans are seeing their plans summarily terminated. Millions more face the same prospect next year. Confronted with a crisis of governance, how does President Obama respond? He campaigns. “I’ve got one more campaign in me,” he told grass-roots supporters — […]
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To the community, On Jan. 6, 1941, FDR delivered his Four Freedoms speech to Congress. Freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear. After his speech, FDR requested a pamphlet for publication on the Four Freedoms. The Four Freedoms should be the national standard for America. However, today we […]
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To the community, Bijou Community School PTA is building a huge new playground for both the school and community. As the only playground between Rufus Allen and Kingsbury Grade, this is a much needed improvement to South Lake Tahoe. And the generosity of this community has been amazing! Thank you so much to all of […]
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To the community, It is another November and for the last couple of years, that means I join other advocates across the county in declaring November is Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. I attend local city council meetings where proclamations are presented, distribute pancreatic cancer awareness posters and fliers, join others from the Pancreatic Cancer Action […]
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By Ari N. Schulman, Wall Street Journal Public shootings have become a familiar American spectacle in recent years, and two more occurred in recent weeks. The details are still unfolding, but so far these episodes seem to fit the general pattern. At Los Angeles International Airport, a young man entered a public area and started […]
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By Jackie Speier I know someone who worked 15 straight months without a vacation. This isn’t that remarkable, perhaps, save for the fact that this person was a platoon sergeant in Iraq. He didn’t want to leave his men, although some left him on a gurney. He says point-blank, “If I’d been over there for […]
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By Garry Bowen As the 15-year debate about paid parking hopefully nears an end, as yet another of the misguided subject matters that have occupied public discourse here for far too long, the presentation on the outcomes of its progress so far was illustrative, not so much as a final answer to the ongoing furor, […]
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By Frank Bruni, New York Times Elliott Management’s lofty offices in Midtown Manhattan look north, south, east and west across the borough’s thicket of skyscrapers. But the most intriguing view I got during a visit there last week was of something else: the changed gay-rights landscape and its implications for the Republican Party. I sat […]
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