By Peter Schrag, Sacramento Bee New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was only the latest to pile on California this week. The state, he told California GOP delegation at the party’s national convention, had given itself to “the masters of huge spending and huge government.” In electing Jerry Brown, it made “a bad choice with an […]
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By George Runner A fire tax bill is coming soon to a mailbox near you. It’s not fair; it’s not constitutional, but thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature, the bills are coming all the same. On Aug. 13, California began mailing the first of more than 825,000 Fire Prevention Fee bills to Californians […]
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To the community, At the recent Lake Tahoe Air Fest the Sheriff’s Team of Active Retirees (STAR) assisted handicapped attendees park their cars, making sure they were aboard a shuttle bound for the action on the tarmac. This is one of several activities the STAR volunteers do throughout the year. The group is presently looking […]
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To the community, Live Violence Free, formerly the South Lake Tahoe Women’s Center, would like to extend a thank you to Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe for enabling us to conduct the inaugural Girls Empowerment Retreat. Thanks to a grant from the Soroptimist group we were able to plan and execute two sessions of […]
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By Phil Angelides Money laundering. Price fixing. Bid rigging. Securities fraud. Talking about the mob? No, unfortunately. Wall Street. These days, the business sections of newspapers read like rap sheets. GE Capital, JPMorgan Chase, UBS, Wells Fargo and Bank of America tied to a bid-rigging scheme to bilk cities and towns out of interest earnings. […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee When Gov. Jerry Brown labeled the state budget a “pretzel palace of incredible complexity,” he almost certainly had in mind the budget’s largest, most complicated piece – financing schools. Proposition 98, a measure that barely won voter approval in 1988, supposedly dictates what schools and their 6 million students are […]
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To the community, B4BC’s Eight Annual Skate the Lake Presented by Tahoe Longboards took place Aug. 18 in North Lake Tahoe and was a great success. Over 85 participants pushed for prevention and collectively, more than $10,000 in net funds were raised. Participants included Tahoe residents from near and friends from afar to encourage people […]
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To the community, I want to make a correction or retraction for comments I made during a slightly heated debate thread about the Lakeview Commons summer concert series. I mistakenly made these comments because I was under the assumption that the city was financing this event and because of that I thought we should have […]
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To the community, Seems the devil’s at it once more. SnowGlobe is again a-go. It’s hard to fathom who is in control in bringing back this nuisance to town. My logic instructor, Dr. Patch, thought you can’t have a universe of discourse without first defining the terms. So, what is a nuisance? Webster’s New College […]
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To the community, The Aug. 22 neighborhood crime meeting went well, with about 50 people attending. South Lake Tahoe police were informative and supportive. It seems that police logs are at the front desk and could be added to a website if we had one. I would like to continue a neighbor watch discussion. Maybe […]
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