By Shiva Frentzen There are not very many opportunities for the Board of Supervisors to easily add to the revenue side of the balance sheet without adding additional expenditures. The BOS have made a major commitment to obligate the residents of El Dorado County to a $2.6 million per year bond payment for the next […]
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By Jeff Miner On Aug. 28 representatives from the South Lake Tahoe chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby met with staff of state Sen. Ted Gaines, R-El Dorado, to ask the senator to support a measure urging Congress to enact a fee on carbon-based fossil fuels. Passage of the measure (Assembly Joint Resolution 43) would […]
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By Laura Walny Older adults and suicide is a topic not often discussed, yet suicides do occur among older people. Eighty-eight people aged 60 and older died as a result of suicide in El Dorado County between 2003 and 2013. That is far too many. As a community, we need to begin talking about this […]
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To the community, The face of Kings Beach is about to be changed … again. Laulima Partners has purchased the Ferrari Crown Motel property and has big plans for it. One of those plans involves one of our most valuable community assets, the North Tahoe Event Center. Located right in the center of town, it […]
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By Joe Mathews It’s the word of the summer: Victoriotic. You won’t find it in the Oxford English Dictionary, at least not yet. It began its life as an epithet, hurled at me by my 7-year-old son. “Don’t be victoriotic!” I was guilty as charged. I had finally broken a long losing streak against him […]
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By Joanne Marchetta Lake Tahoe was at a crossroads in 1997. The lake’s famous water clarity, once measuring 100 feet, was declining year after year because of stormwater pollution from roads and developed areas and erosion from streams damaged by logging and cattle grazing. Tahoe’s forests, clear cut during the Comstock era, had grown back […]
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By Stephen Aron Not too long ago, historians of the American West joined their artistic brethren in celebrating what we now think of as the “Old West.” For historians and artists, the “winning of the West” was a glorious achievement that heralded the triumph of “civilization” over “savagery.” Indeed, by the conventional scholarly wisdom and […]
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To the community, At the Aug. 16, El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meeting, Brian Veerkamp made a motion to extend a property-tax subsidy to incentivize seniors to move into El Dorado County. He justified this subsidy, known as Proposition 90, by stating that he must also represent Realtors, not just citizens. It was apparent […]
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By David Helvarg, Sierra Thirty-three years ago, President Ronald Reagan established the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), stretching 200 miles out from our shores. At 3.4 million square miles, it’s more extensive than our continental landmass. But unlike our lands, our public seas belong to all of us, and right now they are in trouble. […]
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To the community, Sadly, Placer County Planning Commission approved the huge KSL Squaw Valley project last Thursday by a 4-2 vote. Local Larry Sevison voted to approve. Not one change was made to the behemoth project — 1,400-plus bedrooms, numerous 96-foot buildings, 18 homes at the base of the Shirley Lake trail, and a 96-foot building […]
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