To the community, The Brotherhood Motorcycle Club wishes to thank local businesses and community members in South Lake Tahoe and Stateline for their generous donations to our annual fundraiser, HOGG WILD XVI. Because of our community’s generosity we were able to provide 50 complete turkey dinners to families in need this Thanksgiving. The giveaway at […]
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By David McGrath Schwartz, Las Vegas Sun We’ve been told over and over that there’s no quick fix for Nevada’s grinding unemployment and underwater mortgages. So how about an extra hour of daylight to brighten these dark days? From the Internet comes a provocative idea: Nevada should part ways with the Pacific time zone of […]
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By Gary Hirshberg and Eric Schlosser An unprecedented agricultural experiment is being conducted at America’s dinner tables. While none of the processed food we ate 20 years ago contained genetically engineered ingredients, now 75 percent of it does – even though the long-term human health and environmental impacts are unknown. The Food and Drug Administration […]
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By Keaven Van Lom The state of Nevada is rebranding itself as the “go to” state if you detest democracy and love to kill things. With the highest unemployment and foreclosure rate in the country, along with a mammoth meth crisis, Nevada’s good old boy network has cooked up a plan for the decrepit state […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the No. 17, 2011, Sacramento Bee. Leaders at California’s redevelopment agencies may sincerely believe they are helping local residents. Some of their projects may actually be worth protecting. Still, the agencies’ borrowing binge while on the chopping block is financially risky at best, downright irresponsible at worst. The survival […]
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By Robert Leeson The cause of financial crises – and thus the central malfunction of capitalism – is the discretion allocated to banks to stop lending. If such destabilizing discretion were exercised by a foreign dictator, and if the economic flow were related to oil or shipping lanes, it would be regarded as a national […]
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By Tom Torlakson Parents, teachers, administrators and members of Congress all seem to agree on this much: It’s time for No Child Left Behind to go. But what should take its place? As a teacher and state superintendent of public instruction, I’ve seen the shortcomings of this federal law firsthand: — Mislabeling as failures schools […]
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By William Endicott It was with some trepidation that I logged on to sacbee.com and scrolled down to reader comments on Jennifer Garza’s recent story about the inclusive philosophy of St. Mark’s United Methodist Church and its gay and straight congregation. Stories that mix religion and gay rights are always ripe for the most outrageous […]
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To the community, The CHP Turkey Drive on Nov. 19 was very successful; collecting 70 turkeys. The CHP South Lake Tahoe area would like to thank Sam Coolbaugh and Bijou Safeway for providing our collection location, STMS Club Live for their help during the collection day, and the South Lake Tahoe Women’s Center and Sierra […]
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By Garry Bowen Last Thursday we had our first official Occupy Tahoe (according to some, it will soon be Occupy SLT, to herald the idea that someone had co-opted the first). What is Occupy? Is that the same as Occupied Berlin or, Occupied Lebanon? No, it appears it is a more spontaneous gut-reaction to the […]
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