Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 24, 2016, Reno Gazette-Journal. In a bit of bipartisan teamwork, a Senate committee last week passed a bill to help Lake Tahoe that would also have big benefits for Reno-Sparks. The Lake Tahoe Restoration Act, sponsored by Nevada Republican Sen. Dean Heller, is far from a sure […]
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By Sam Daley-Harris When the nation’s political discussion drives one to despair it helps to find a quote that puts the craziness into perspective. This quote from a New York Times column by Frank Rich eight years ago does that for me: Last weekend a new….poll found that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Mr. Bush are both roundly […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee It’s time once again for some fun with numbers, in this case the data on California’s serious – and worsening – housing crisis. Since 2010, the state’s population has risen by 1.8 million to 39 million human beings who live – most of them, anyway – in 14 million units […]
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By Jim Madaffer California drivers are bearing the burden of the state’s transportation funding crisis, with the average driver spending more than $500 a year to repair the wear and tear on their vehicle caused by bad roads. Gas tax revenues currently fund most of the state’s road maintenance and repairs, but gas tax revenues […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 17, 2016, Orange County Register. Despite fairly steady economic growth and state budget surpluses, California’s unfunded public employee pension liabilities are spiking. As detailed by Stanford University research scholar David Crane on the Fox & Hounds website, year-end reports pegged the increase in unfunded pension promises for […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to express our sincerest thanks to all of the members of the Heavenly Ski Patrol for sponsoring an Adopt A Day of Nourishment on Jan. 18. The ski patrol has been sponsoring two Adopt a Days annually for the past several years, and sending great sponsor crews […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown’s new budget would boost spending on K-12 schools by several billion dollars, but the California School Boards Association says that’s a small fraction of what’s needed to adequately prepare the state’s six million students for jobs and higher education. The CSBA released a report Wednesday asserting, “California is […]
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Whether it’s the grandeur of Mother Nature, or history encapsulated in monuments and battlefields, or wildlife roaming free the National Park Service is there to remind us of our past and future. It is easy to understand how the Park Service is about our past, especially when looking east toward the National Mall or south […]
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By Larry Weitzman Money is so tight in El Dorado County that CAO Larry Combs recently decided that no general fund money will be used for roads in El Dorado County. But that didn’t stop our Board of Supervisors from conducting a Citizens Engagement Survey at a reported cost of $15,000 to “help” with determining […]
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By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times If you’re a lover of U.S. national parks in general and Yosemite National Park in particular, you’ve probably been moved to outrage over reports that a New York corporation has claimed the trademark rights to several names associated with the park. These include the historic Ahwahnee Hotel, Curry Village, and […]
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