By Tia Rancort The winter holidays are a time for celebration with family and friends, and that means more cooking, entertaining, home decorating and an increased risk of home fires due to increased usage of cooking and heating equipment. Most home fires and injuries occur in the kitchen as reported by the U.S. Fire Administration. […]
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By Robert Reich A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum: It was hijacked. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech, and corporations are now people. Yet when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as […]
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By Steve Mokrohisky Douglas County has faced significant economic challenges recently. Over the past four years, assessed property values have decreased by nearly $1 billion, and sales tax, room tax, gaming and building revenues have all declined. The general fund, including sheriff, district attorney, judicial, community development and general services, has cut over $4 million […]
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To the community, A few days back, as my spouse and I were returning from Carson City, near the gondola site there were a few people with placards that said Occupy South Tahoe. The trouble is as Gertrude Stein said when asked about Oakland, “There is no there, there.” How true about the city of […]
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To the community, Tahoe Community Church Food Pantry would like to say thank you for the generous donations to our Food Pantry from the community. MontBleu casino and its employees continued their tradition of the last several years and generously donated 20 turkeys to our food pantry. This enabled us to feed 151 families in […]
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Publisher’s note: Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. By Chris Ballard, Sports Illustrated For those of us who came of age in the late 1980s and early ’90s, it was the closest thing sports had to a JFK moment. We can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on the afternoon of […]
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To the community, For most people in America, Thanksgiving was spent with family and friends sharing a huge meal, football games, and a nap. But for some in our local community, they would have had nothing without the generosity of others to be thankful for. Every Monday Bread & Broth (a local nonprofit organization) feeds […]
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By Daniel Tomascheski Katherine Evatt isn’t the only one who can’t see the forest for the trees. It’s not surprising that many people are alarmed to see good forest practices at work. A few acres of downed trees don’t square with their notion of what a healthy forest is supposed to look like. Ironically, it’s […]
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To the community, The Washoe Meadows Community condemns the act of vandalism within Washoe Meadows State Park that was reported Nov. 29 by State Parks personnel. The described mutilation of trees is an abhorrence to those of us who are devoted to Washoe Meadows and who are dedicated to the defense of its natural gifts. […]
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By Katherine K. Evatt I spent a recent Monday on a Sierra Pacific Industries’ forest tour outside the rural Calaveras County town of West Point. Sierra Pacific has clear-cut thousands of acres in Calaveras. It has removed nearly every tree on each site, scraped off and burned the surface vegetation, deep-ripped the soil and sprayed […]
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