By Richard Solbrig The National Interagency Fire Center described the 2015 wildfire season as one of the most severe in decades, with more than 10 million acres burned. The Valley (76,000 acres), Butte (70,000 acres), and Rough (150,000 acres) wildfires highlighted the impact of the severe drought upon our critical watersheds. According to a study […]
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By Carl Hasty The South Shore of Lake Tahoe is divided by lines. These state, county, and city lines work well on a map, but they do not define the day-to-day reality of the people who live and work in this community. In the last decade we have seen definitive projects reshape South Shore – […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth, a nonprofit, all volunteer organization whose mission is to ease hunger in the South Tahoe community, would like to recognize the Heavenly ski patrol for hosting their second Adopt A Day of Nourishment this year. Heavenly’s ski patrol provided the funding for the 138 meals served at B&B’s Monday […]
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By Kenn K. Fujioka On Sept. 2, 2011, two employees of mosquito and vector control district where I work told me they had found a mosquito — Aedes albopictus – that had supposedly been eradicated from Los Angeles for 10 years. Aedes albopictus (“albos” for short) is a mosquito that keeps vector control officers up […]
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Publisher’s note: The following letter was sent to South Lake Tahoe City Councilmen Hal Cole and Tom Davis on March 6, 2016. It is republished with permission. Dear Hal and Tom, I watched your meeting of March 1 of this year and heard comments about me stopping a member of the City Council from being […]
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By Toogee Sielsch As we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks the weather in the High Sierra has been all across the board with early summer temps in mid-February giving way to a major winter storm in early March. And as we all know living here in the basin and how it pertains to […]
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To the community, Volunteering at Heavenly Mountain Resort’s Feb. 22 Adopt A Day of Nourishment dinner, Kyle Hayes was very excited about his time spent helping the B&B volunteers and serving the evening’s dinner guests. “Having the opportunity to serve the community alongside the Bread & Broth volunteers was an amazing experience for all of […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Democratic legislators and officials, business and labor representatives, and water suppliers took turns Wednesday flailing a November ballot measure that would require voter approval of major state revenue bond issues. If the measure is passed, critics said, using bond financing for critical public works projects, including emergency work after a […]
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By Patricia A. Turner We tend to recognize heroes like Arthur Ashe in a kind of short-hand—first African-American to win a singles tennis titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open; first African-American to be selected to represent the U.S. at the Davis Cup; and, at the university where I teach—UCLA—one of the […]
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By Tully MacKay-Tisbert Homelessness is often described as a problem we must solve—and Los Angeles city and county now have expensive plans to do so. As someone who has spent eight years working in nonprofit homeless services and studying homelessness, I’ve learned homelessness is also an industry designed to manage costs rather than challenge the […]
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