By Chuck Allen Summer break is ending soon and children will be heading back to school. The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is asking drivers to slow down and be on the alert for children walking to school. Here are some precautions for drivers: Slow down and be especially alert in residential neighborhoods and school zones. […]
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By Lucy Robinson A few years ago I took on a research challenge: to listen to every charity single released in the United Kingdom between December 1984 and the end of 1995. I ended up studying 82 singles in depth—some had international success, some were made for local community audiences. Charity singles are the songs […]
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By James P. Collins From ancient soothsayers to Wall Street stock pickers, humans have always yearned to be able to tell the future. The ability, needless to say, has mostly been overstated. But what if there was a sense in which you really could tell the future? And what if we could also make a […]
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By Richard Jurek On July 20, 1969, an estimated 600 million people watched and listened in real time as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin touched down on the surface of the moon. With the drama unfolding on their television screens, the attention of millions was focused on a single event—a single step, really—for the […]
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By Brian Uhler During the last weekend of July, a group of women visited South Lake Tahoe for a bachelorette party. During the visit, the women willfully ingested marijuana brownies they obtained through a ride share company. Within a few hours, 10 of the women were taken to the emergency room in South Lake Tahoe. Eight […]
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By Joe Mathews California tokers, why are you trippin’ so hard? You keep saying that marijuana helps manage anxiety. But those of you who work in or partake of the cannabis industry sound like the most stressed-out people in California. And that leaves me wondering what’s in your bongs, especially since 2016 is supposed to […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to thank the South Tahoe Association of Realtors for hosting the July 25 dinner and sending a fun and energetic group to help put on the evening meal. “Most of us didn’t know what to expect and the B&B volunteers were very patient and explained what we […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Ron Seeling, the California Public Employees Retirement System’s chief actuary, believed he was speaking to a closed-door seminar in 2009 when he warned that public employee pension costs were becoming “unsustainable.” However, Ed Mendel, a veteran reporter who writes a blog on pensions, was there, and later published Seeling’s dire […]
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By Paul Barrett, Bloomberg Businessweek How typical of an American is Khizr Khan, the man who stole the show on the last night of the Democratic National Convention? Answer: pretty typical. U.S. Muslims are much more mainstream than many Americans might think. Khan brought down the house in Philadelphia when he told the story of his son’s […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 28, 2016, Reno Gazette-Journal. Nevada’s education system sets up students with disabilities for failure. A principal issue driving this is the availability of “adjusted diplomas.” These glorified certificates of attendance are enshrined in state law, and yet they have zero value in the real world beyond allowing families […]
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