By Beth L. Peerce I write on behalf of the California Association of Realtors, whose 170,000 members continue to witness the devastating consequences the home foreclosure crisis is having on California’s families, neighborhoods, and communities on a daily basis. The number of families affected by foreclosure is staggering. During the past three years, more than […]
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Publisher’s note: The Peace Corps turns 50 this month. Two 2005 South Tahoe High School grads are in the Peace Corps having different experiences. Michelle Aguilar today weighs in with her thoughts from Panama. On March 4, Jessica Wackenhut shared her opinions from Paraguay. By Michelle Aguilar BOCAS DEL TORO, Panama — I was the […]
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By Jennifer Fearing The Humane Society of the United States applauds the California Department of Fish and Game’s heroic and resource-intensive efforts to rehabilitate little Shasta, a yearling black bear cub orphaned when his mother was shot, and four other cubs in a unique partnership with the U.S. Forest Service and the nonprofit Lake Tahoe […]
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By Mandi Winnicki When I was a kid growing up in Flagstaff, Ariz., we had a little ski resort that had sporadic snowstorms. We never really “prayed for snow” because we knew our prayers wouldn’t ever be answered. At least not the way they were in the Sierra or anywhere else for that matter. But, […]
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By David G. Crane The battle in Wisconsin is not over collective bargaining rights generally but rather the appropriateness of those rights in the public sector. Readers may be surprised to learn about the very different histories and consequences of collective bargaining in the private and public sectors. In the private sector, collective bargaining is […]
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By Allan Mansoor Recent events in the Midwest have put a spotlight on one of the most volatile budget issues of the day: pensions for public employees. Some have described the idea of requiring members of public employee unions to contribute a little bit more to their taxpayer-funded pensions as an assault on working families. […]
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By Howard Johnson Time is running out on cheap petroleum fuels. Recent research states that we have little more than 40 years of steadily decreasing supplies of that type of energy while concurrently its price grows prohibitively high. Then it’s no more cheap oil. Then what? We are running out of oil, period. That being […]
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To the publisher, Based on Vail’s commercial moves in town, i.e. buying a vacation home rental property and soon I surmise we have an octopus in our midst with tentacles reaching to put a lock on the business community to be the big shot around town. [Mayor] Hal Cole, bless his heart, once upon a […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 28, 2011, Sacramento Bee. Water is California’s most precious resource. Yet in lean years and wet ones, California manages to mismanage this precious resource in spectacular fashion. That is the take-home message from a monumental report released last week by the Public Policy Institute of California, titled […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 25, 2011, Sacramento Bee. Unwilling (in the case of most Republicans) or unable (in the case of most Democrats) to approve new taxes, state lawmakers are squeezing citizens to raise revenue in less obvious but nonetheless onerous ways. We are talking about soaring traffic fines that have […]
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