To the community, As some of you already know, I helped start the Tahoe Victims of CPS in 2007. We are a Child Protective Services (CPS) reform group. CPS is a good organization of good people but due to funding cuts and high case overloads, they have been unable to keep pace with their required […]
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By Andy Rooney, CBS I have good news for you tonight. According to an American Gaming Association report, revenue from casino gambling fell by almost two billion dollars last year. A lot of people are out of work and it turns out that when people are unemployed, they gamble less. You’d think they might gamble […]
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To the community, As Bread & Broth observes the first anniversary of its Second Serving – a program that provides a second weekly hot meal – we’d like to thank all those who’ve made it possible. To Pastor Steve Blocher of Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church for providing a place to serve, and to his […]
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To the community, Bueno and Marty Kettleson of Bert’s Café recently hosted a Spaghetti Night fundraiser for Tahoe Arts Project. It was a wonderful evening enjoyed by many. All of us at Tahoe Arts Project would like to thank Crystal Dairy, Bonanza Produce, Sara Lee and of course the staff at Bert’s for helping to […]
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Publisher’s note: The following is El Dorado County’s letter to South Lake Tahoe regarding redevelopment. Dear Mayor Lovell and Councilmembers: The County of El Dorado continues to object strongly to the proposed Redevelopment Plan for the South Tahoe Redevelopment Project Area No. 2 as outlined in previous letters [April 6, 2010 and May 3, 2010]. […]
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Do you subscribe to Lake Tahoe News? It’s free. Near the bottom of the Home page is a place to enter your email address. You will then be sent a confirmation email. Once you click on that you will receive an email every morning listing what has been posted in the last 24 hours. Clicking […]
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To the community, We, Maestra Diana’s kindergarten class at Bijou Community School, would like to thank Pet Station for its generosity. This week, we learned about the different classes of animals in science … and to make it more real, we got to see real animals from each group. We were able to see a […]
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To the publisher, Praise be for the words of caution. Know that every company exploring and producing offshore will do everything to find answers and solutions to prevent this from happening again. The U.S. stopped almost all research and development for nuclear power as a result of the Three Mile Island accident and “The China […]
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By Rebekah Rast, Fresno Bee When you buy a head of lettuce at the grocery store in the next couple of months, you might notice a higher price tag at checkout. This isn’t the first time the cost of lettuce has increased. In late 2009, in a supermarket in Queens, New York, a customer noticed […]
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Publisher’s note: The following editorial is from the May 13, 2010, Sacramento Bee. Where is the outrage? In the week or so since Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a civil lawsuit charging two former high-level officials of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System with massive fraud, there’s been hardly a peep from public employee union […]
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