To the community, There are currently numerous large projects being planned that would forever change the Lake Tahoe Basin, destroying the natural beauty for future generations. The Lake Tahoe Basin is a national treasure, and we should band together to protect it from overdevelopment. It is imperative that we preserve the wilderness areas so that […]
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To the community, “Gridlock.” “Don’t leave your home.” “Stay off the roads.” Do any of these terms sound familiar to you? As we observed this summer, with an improving economy comes the return of more traffic on our roadways. Yes, we want visitors to come enjoy Lake Tahoe and help support our local economy. But […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County CAO Larry Combs, wrote a letter to El Dorado Hills Fire Chief Dave Roberts on Oct. 8 informing Roberts that Board of Supervisors resolution 064-2014 had “errors of a technical nature that occurred in the adoption of the transfer.” What happened is that EDH Fire District through this resolution […]
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By Glenn Cook, Las Vegas Review-Journal The nasty Republican divisions in Washington appear to have nothing on the party’s infighting in Nevada. The split between fiscally moderate and fiscally conservative Nevada Republicans, exacerbated by this year’s GOP-supported tax increases and an incompetent state party organization that’s incapable of raising money or registering voters, is as wide […]
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By Toogee Sielsch Just like Nevada, in the history of Florida no one has ever been killed by a wild black bear. In Nevada history their have been 26 hunting fatalities over the years, and in Florida between 2000 and 2007 there were 441 hunting fatalities. Yet in both states the agencies tasked with wildlife […]
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By Michel Martin, NPR Have we finally turned a corner? Has it finally happened that when a man says he is making job decisions around his family we can finally believe him, as opposed to wondering when the email exchanges with his outside honey are going to come out? This past week, two of this […]
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By Richard Solbrig Potholes in our streets are a popular discussion item in Tahoe. Some potholes are simply holes in the asphalt paving, while others are actually low spots located over a utility pipeline. This summer, several articles have addressed potholes at various lengths. The South Tahoe Public Utility District would like to provide some […]
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By Daniel Duane, New York Times California’s over, everything I love about this place is going to hell. I knew there was something familiar about this thought from the moment it occurred to me in Yosemite National Park. My sister and I started going to those mountains 40 years ago with our parents, who taught […]
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By Patrick Everson, Las Vegas Review-Journal Colleges and universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, but that’s less and less true today. While higher education systems champion diversity of race, ethnicity and sexual identity, they’re completely unconcerned with diversity of ideology. Nothing highlighted that better than a story last week from The Cornell Daily Sun, […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to thank the South Lake Tahoe Moose Lodge No. 1632 for the Adopt A Day sponsorship for the Oct. 12 evening dinner. Thanks to the Moose Lodge’s generous donation, the 91 folks who came for dinner were served baked salmon with orange sauce, spaghetti with red sauce, […]
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