By Sara Jenkins As I write this, I’m still full. I just returned from an extravagant Sunday lunch at my neighbors’ house here in this small Tuscan town, where my parents first bought a tumbledown farmhouse in 1971. We feasted to celebrate my successful olive harvest. First we fired up their 300-year-old wood oven and […]
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By Annie Leonard, EcoWatch Thursday was Use Less Stuff Day. It was created to inspire us to rethink the stuff we use. All our stuff—cell phones, clothes, cars, disposable chopsticks, and on and on—comes from somewhere and has to go somewhere when we throw it out. That takes a big toll on the planet, so thinking […]
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By George Miller, Sacramento Bee We live in a progressive and forward-thinking state with a constitution that guarantees equity in our public education system. We have a lot to be proud of – successfully implementing the Common Core standards, expanding services for students in foster care and investing in early childhood education. But we also […]
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By Steve Kubby Back in February 2012, I began preparing and using a cryogenic extract from fresh green cannabis plants. Not just any plants, but a medical strain that I have been breeding for the past 10 years that clearly had powerful medicinal benefits for me. I had read a paper by Raphael Mechoulam, the […]
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To the community, Dan Deemer, a member of Kirkwood Mountain Resort’s guest services team, was one of the sponsor crew volunteers who came to help at Bread & Broth’s dinner on Nov. 2. After spending time on the serving line dishing out generous portions of chili and pizza, he took a moment to jot down […]
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By Joanne Marchetta This past summer was Lake Tahoe’s busiest tourist season in recent memory. With the economy rebounding and major population growth projected for nearby metropolitan areas, this summer is also a harbinger of change. We must be prepared to meet the challenges of increased visitation in the future. Lake Tahoe has growth caps. […]
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By Andrés Martinez It’s not surprising that the crazed “Soldiers of the Caliphate” terrorists selected the France-Germany soccer match at the Stade de France as the central target in their assault on Paris. For starters, the match was a high-profile attraction bringing together 80,000 fans, including French President Francois Hollande. As American moviegoers across generations […]
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To the community, The HEROs from Harrah’s and Harveys lived up to their name and mission by hosting a Bread & Broth dinner on Oct. 26. HEROs, a Caesar Entertainment employee organization, is committed to having members volunteer at charitable causes and give back to their community. Through their generosity they are heroes to those […]
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By Richard Allen Smith, Esquire For the last 14 years, uniformed Americans have been in some of the most challenging conditions imaginable. We’ve parachuted into Iraq, marched wearily through the mountains of Tora Bora, and slept in s— at Musa Qala. We’ve toppled dictators, trained counterterrorism forces in Africa, and killed the most dangerous terrorist in […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Nov. 13, 2015, San Jose Mercury News. If a sunny outlook and the ability to ignore bad news were the only attributes needed to run a huge enterprise, California’s high-speed rail project would be rolling along. Because there’s no doubt that Dan Richard, the California High-Speed Rail Authority’s […]
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