To the community, On April 29, Hope Lutheran Church of the Sierra hosted the healthy and tasty Bread & Broth dinner served to over 90 members of the South Lake Tahoe community. The weekly meals are full course dinners with a meat entree, vegetables, fruit and or green salads, bread, dessert and beverages. The dinner […]
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To the community, This week is National Nurses Week. It was May 12, 1820, that Florence Nightingale was born. Nightingale is most known for her work during the Crimean War of 1854. She and a team of 34 nurses improved the unsanitary conditions at a British base hospital, reducing the death count by two-thirds. She […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the April 21, 2013, Riverside Press Enterprise. California’s specialty license plates should not dangle a promise that government does not keep. Drivers buy the plates to support a variety of causes, but a new audit found slipshod oversight of the resulting income. The Legislature needs to ensure that state […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the May 5, 2013, Sacramento Bee. No doubt, it is gearing up to be a dry, ugly summer. It’s just early May, but fires have erupted around the state, most notably in Ventura County. Folsom Reservoir, normally brimming with water at this time of year, is at two-thirds its […]
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To the community, It has come to our attention that residents in the Lake Tahoe Basin area may be receiving phone calls from a caller claiming to be with CalFifre who is soliciting funds. CalFire has not, and will never, call residents asking them to donate money to support the department due to State budget […]
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To the community, On behalf of Heavenly Mountain Resort, I want to thank the community for stepping up and helping with the U.S. Freestyle Championships and the High Roller Hold ‘Em last month. Heavenly had a large number of volunteers help pull off these amazing events successfully. First, the California Conservation Core members from both […]
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To the community, The city’s determination to “sell” paid parking and residential permit parking to the residents of South Lake Tahoe is being met with strong opposition. The almost 100 people that attended Monday night’s Residential Parking Permit and Kiosks meeting (just the title is confusing) was a demonstration of how passionate this community is […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the May 2, 2013, Chico Enterprise-Record. North State reservoirs may be higher than usual for this date, but that’s not going to last. Some optimistic media outlets in the state, particularly those from metropolitan markets, seem to want to report and believe statistics based on wishful thinking. They report […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the April 22, 2013, Los Angeles Times. While education reformers in Sacramento continue to obsess about how easy it should be to fire teachers and how important tests should be in evaluating their performance, almost no one is talking about the central issue of what students are supposed to […]
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By Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times President Obama spit his game, as the kids say, when he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at a Planned Parenthood conference a little over a week ago: “You’re making me blush,” he cooed to their thunderous applause. “I love you back.” Oh, how he wooed them: “Forty years after […]
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