By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee So does California have a new state budget, or not? It has about a half-a-budget, or perhaps more accurately, a half-baked budget. The Legislature passed a budget bill last Friday, thus meeting the constitutional deadline and also preserving lawmakers’ salaries, along with a handful of minor “trailer bills” to implement […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was sent to the South Lake Tahoe City Council and is reprinted with the author’s permission. I sat in at the Lodging Association meeting last Thursday and heard the loop road presentation from Carl Hastings. [sic] I was not happy with Plan No. 1 or Plan No. 2, so am glad […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the June 17, 2012, Sacramento Bee. Hammered by a lagging economy and imports of forest products from elsewhere, California’s timber industry is looking for help. It is finding it in the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown, and not just because the governor has been a recipient of campaign funds […]
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By Deb Vreeland Does it take a vision or does it start with a vision? South Lake Tahoe, clearly a jewel in its own right, was feeling lackluster. There was no sense of place. No central gathering area. A lack of community, some said. It’s easy to pontificate on making things better – even easier […]
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By Michael Brune and Kathryn Phillips Are you a native of California? Neither are we. In fact, about one in five Californians were born in a different state. Across the United States, millions of people grow up seeing pictures of California’s stunning redwoods, mountains, deserts and beautiful beaches – and dream of visiting them some […]
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By Richard Bronson I love to look into the past to find clues to the present and the future. It is amazing how you can connect the dots of history and visualize the road ahead. You can see clues in the rearview mirror that are shaping the world of the Internet and online gaming, the […]
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By Ruben Navarrette Jr. I submit that most of us have a commencement address tucked away, containing some choice words of wisdom that we’d love to share with high school or college graduates if we ever had the chance. This year, David McCullough Jr. – an English teacher at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts and […]
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By Joanne Marchetta I was working at the kitchen table in the middle of a languid Sunday afternoon in June when I heard Nancy call to me, “Hey, come look at this.” We climbed to our second floor and both took a look from our upper deck. We could see a small white wisp of […]
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By Tina Brown, Newsweek What a lucky dog Walter Cronkite was. You really could be the Voice of God in an era when all America was called to worship at 7 o’clock every night at a temple called the evening news and there was an oracular ring to every scripted utterance. Cronkite was a construct […]
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By Cal Thomas One of many things left out of the film “The Iron Lady” was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s warnings on the effects a single currency would have on the economies of European nations. Thatcher’s premonitions place her among the great political prophets of all time. On the single currency, Peter Oborne, a columnist […]
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