To the community, Bread & Broth would like to thank the Harrah’s Heros for once again contributing to our cause. Harrah’s Heros continues to give service to our community. Throughout the year they have helped financially and with staff. Volunteers from Harrah’s Heros spent the day helping Bread & Broth volunteers serve those in need […]
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To the community, The South Tahoe Chamber of Commerce opposes Measure B and the increase in taxes for any business at this time. Measure B comes from the perspective of assessing a business greater taxes and fees based solely on the number of employees that business has. Gross receipts and number of employees are the […]
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By John Stossel Unlike Bill Clinton, President Obama admits he inhaled!. “Frequently,” he said. “That was the point.” People laugh when politicians talk about their drug use. The audience laughed during a 2003 CNN Democratic presidential primary debate when John Kerry, John Edwards and Howard Dean admitted smoking weed. Yet those same politicians oversee a […]
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By Thomas Sowell The only good news for the Republicans coming out of the seemingly endless presidential candidate “debates” is that some Republican leaders are now belatedly thinking about how they can avoid a repetition of this debacle in future elections. What could they possibly have been thinking about, in the first place, when they […]
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By Tad DeHaven The U.S. Postal Service has released a new five-year plan for congressional consideration that it says would get the beleaguered government mail monopoly on sounder financial footing and thus avoid a taxpayer bailout. The plan repeats previous suggestions (i.e., workforce reductions, postal network consolidations, elimination of Saturday delivery, elimination of the retiree […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 28, 2012, Reno Gazette-Journal. No one who knew Bill Raggio could doubt his toughness. He was, after all, a former Washoe County district attorney best known for burning down Joe Conforte’s brothel near Wadsworth — in a community more often willing to turn a blind eye to […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 23, 2012, Sacramento Bee. As big industries ramp up their campaign to discredit the science of global climate change, researchers who’ve helped document the threats posed by rising greenhouse gases have paid a steep price. Some have had their emails stolen. Others have come under attack from […]
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By Steve Chapman Factory farming and its abuses were once the province of an eccentric minority that invited ridicule and scorn. Agribusiness corporations could afford to ignore them. In the real America, nobody wasted time worrying about the well-being of livestock. But the real America has changed. On Monday, the biggest restaurant chain on the […]
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By Robert Reich It has been said there is no high ground in American politics since any politician who claims it is likely to be gunned down by those firing from the trenches. That’s how the Obama team justifies its decision to endorse a super PAC that can raise and spend unlimited sums for his […]
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To the community, Last night was trash night. My dog was up all night barking at the bears. This morning when I went out to get the paper my trash was all over the place. After the trash pick up, almost all of the trash was gone. We do have the best trash pick up […]
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