By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Coincidentally, three otherwise unrelated events last week framed California’s somewhat clouded economic situation. One was a revelation that the state now is tied with Rhode Island for the nation’s highest unemployment rate, 9.8 percent. Although employment surged in California last year, with about a quarter-million new jobs, and the jobless […]
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To the community, Thank you for being the first paper to report the Liberty Utilities transmission line upgrade project that will significantly impact Lake Tahoe’s North Shore as the site of the project and all Liberty Energy customers who are currently expected to pay for the $50 million project. The project application was first submitted […]
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To the community, “The Big Burn” by Timothy Egan is about the wildfire of 1910 that burned an area the size of Connecticut. And it is about the birth of the Forest Service and conservation in the U.S. The fire began in Idaho and spread to Montana and Washington. It is about good guys and […]
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By Ryan Donner I served as a member of the 2011-12 El Dorado County Grand Jury and began serving a second term on the 2012-13 El Dorado County Grand Jury. Judge Stephen Bailey was the supervising judge during both of these jury sessions. At the end of the 2011-12 jury session, the presentation of a […]
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To the community, “Heavenly Mountain Resort loves supporting the work of Bread & Broth. It is so popular among the staff that there is a waiting list to come and volunteer. I enjoy helping on occasion and seeing firsthand what a difference a great meal has on the needy of South lake Tahoe. Thanks for […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 19, 2013, Sacramento Bee. Nevada state mental health officials acknowledge that they bought bus ticket tickets for at least 99 psychiatric patients and sent them to California since last July. They acknowledge one mistake, sending James Flavy Coy Brown, a 48-year-old man who had been housed in […]
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By Ted Gaines While I am pleased CalFire has decided to apply the brakes in order to sort this mess out, I will not give up the fight to repeal the fire tax altogether. I just heard from a constituent this week telling me they were billed for two structures on a parcel of land […]
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To the community, On March 4, members of the Heavenly Ski Patrol put aside their skis and put on Bread & Broth aprons to help feed local residents at the evening meal served at St. Theresa Church Grace Hall. The members of Heavenly Ski Patrol donated $250 to host the B&B Adopt A Day of […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 20, 2013, Sacramento Bee. If you read the full text of the federal indictment charging the former chief executive officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System with fraud and conspiracy, it would appear he did nothing more serious than crudely cut and paste the CalPERS logo […]
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By Patrick Wright Lake Tahoe News recently published a letter from Ann Nichols (CTC needs to come clean about its parcels, March 17) sounding an alarm that the Tahoe Conservancy is on the verge of selling 400 environmentally sensitive parcels. Let me assure your readers and the community that the Conservancy has no plans to […]
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