To the community, Give your pets the protection they need. Every dog or cat can “host” parasites and you may not even know about it. Even indoor pets can be exposed. Regular examinations and preventive medications can help protect your pets from fleas, ticks, heartworms, and intestinal parasites like roundworms and hookworms. Don’t leave your […]
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By Morgan Kaufer I am a sophomore currently attending South Tahoe High. I was just wondering, have you heard about the invisible children? Recently, a crew from the Invisible Children Foundation visited my school and I was truly inspired to do all I can to help out this amazing organization. I hope I can inspire […]
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By Chuck Alvey In 2004-05, the citizen-based leadership of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada saw our region’s explosive growth and asked if we were creating the kind of place we would want to live in five to 10 years. Were we growing too fast without a quality-of-life focus for the longer term? When […]
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By Claire Fortier The Nevada Legislature’s frustration at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is not only understandable. It’s timely. The TRPA should be called out to explain its archaic and cumbersome bureaucracy that costs local residents and developers too much time, aggravation and money. Unfortunately, that’s only part of the real problem at Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Denis Collins It’s not just hard finding good help these days — it’s hard finding honest help, too. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, approximately 75 percent of all employees steal from work in some way. What’s worse is that about 30 percent of all corporate bankruptcies are a direct result of employee […]
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By Jeff Jacoby, Townhall Back in November of 1999, as Boston’s 516,000-square-foot convention center was about to go up near the South Boston waterfront, I wrote a column about the futility of building exhibition halls with taxpayer money. Such facilities, I observed, are invariably touted as engines of economic growth, guaranteed to stimulate the creation […]
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By Lisa Huard Each year I become more appreciative of the community in which I live and work. Tuesday’s Drug Store Project was one of the reasons why. Again, we provided a meaningful anti-drug program for the 6th grade youth of South Tahoe Middle School, Zephyr Cove Elementary, St. Theresa, and Diamond Valley School. On […]
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By Guy Rocha The B.S. associated with Lake Tahoe might be as deep as the lake. That’s if you believe the Sierra Nevada lake has a bottom. Some tell tales of dead bodies sinking to the lake bottom still intact today because of frigid water temperatures. They include Chinese woodcutters from the late 19th century […]
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By Doug Lasken and Bill Evers Students in California public schools are not achieving at the levels they should. Too many students are unprepared for jobs or have to take remedial courses when they start college. In California, we judge student achievement through student scores on statewide tests. These tests assess how much students know […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial first ran in the March 22, 2011, New York Times. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told a House subcommittee recently that a drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing could be the “Achilles’ heel” that kills the natural gas industry. Like many others, Mr. Salazar sees natural gas, which America has in great […]
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