Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Oct. 10, 2012, Sacramento Bee. In the race for the 6th Assembly District – a heavily Republican district that includes parts of Sacramento, El Dorado and Placer counties – the options are less than palatable. But the choice is fairly easy. Incumbent Beth Gaines is a better pick […]
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By Jonathan Turley, Washington Post Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or religious views. The decline of free speech has come not from any single blow […]
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By Joel Brinkley Costa Rican women are appealing to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to overturn a national law banning in-vitro fertilization. The state’s national ombudsman, Ofelia Taitelbaum, started the process, saying “people will understand that this is about rights” that are appropriate for “our times.” In the worldwide debate over abortion and women’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed The problem with the sentiment – If you aren’t part of the solution, you are part of the problem – is that you might not agree with the solutions being presented. That, in my opinion, does not make you part of the problem. That is one of the problems with some of […]
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To the community, Returning Otis Wollan to the Placer County Water Agency District 5 director’s seat is a good idea for a number of reasons, not the least being his “at-home” knowledge of District Five that comes from years of working with a large network of Tahoe, Truckee, American and Bear River expertise and experience, […]
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By Vicki Barber Driving around our expansive El Dorado County — sprawling from the valley up through the foothills and forests to Lake Tahoe — I am constantly amazed at the diversity and beauty of the terrain. I am equally impressed by the diversity of our school districts. Yet after a quarter century of striving […]
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To the community, The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency would like to everyone who made TRPA’s Community Appreciation Day Open House and Lake Spirit Awards Ceremony such a great success last month including: Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, Tahoe Science Consortium, Tahoe Environmental Research Center, Tahoe Resource Conservation District, Tahoe Catering Company, the Red Hut, our […]
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Publisher’s note: The following endorsement is from Lake Tahoe News after a team of six community members gathered to hash out who the two best people in the field of five are to lead South Lake Tahoe on the City Council for the next four years. We believe Austin Sass and JoAnn Conner will best […]
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To the community, Urs Schuler of Placerville [Voices, Oct. 10], makes one of the most peculiar arguments I’ve seen. He describes the trillion-dollar deficits and excessive spending during this administration, but then suggests that we replace Tom McClintock, one of the leading voices in Congress for fiscal sanity, with Jack Uppal who promises to support […]
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By Peter Beinart, Newsweek Of the many things that the now-legendary Mitt Romney Boca Raton video has revealed, perhaps the most important is this: the real presidential campaign is the one the public doesn’t see. Sure, Romney and President Obama fly around the country giving speeches and doing media interviews. And sure, they occasionally use […]
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