To the community, Twenty-thousand festival-goers in town during winter, when we hope to have snow, would be tricky to deal with during a situation where the roads are closed and gas line to town is cut for a week as it was early in 1986. Heat? Food? Sanitation? How about evacuating those 20,000 to 27,000 […]
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By Larry Weitzman The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors couldn’t wait the five years as the County Charter provides for charter review, but instead used their power to impanel another Charter Review Committee early (three years after the last Charter Review Committee). The results of this new CRC are another run at increasing the […]
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To the community, SnowGlobe appears to be following the letter of their contract with the city of South Lake Tahoe with the possible exception of holding an after party in Bijou Park. They have also generated revenue for local businesses, employed local residents and donated to local charities. What is not apparent are the current […]
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By Dan Walters, CalMatters The essence of California’s pension crisis was on display last month when the California Public Employees Retirement System made a relatively small change in its amortization policy. The CalPERS board voted to change the period for recouping future investment losses from 30 years to 20 years. The bottom line is that […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 26, 2018, Las Vegas Sun. Looking at one part of President Trump’s budget, you might think his administration is riding to the rescue of the National Park Service. But a broader view of the overall budget reveals something very different. The administration’s plans for our national parks […]
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By Eben Weiss, Outside Recently, as part of a series of lessons about “community helpers,” in which parents talk about their vocations, my son’s preschool teacher asked me to come in and tell the kids what I do. “What do you do, anyway?” she asked, looking me up and down. “I write about bicycles,” I […]
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By Jean Twenge, The Conversation When 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., it was just the latest in a tragic list of mass shootings, many of them at schools. Then something different happened: Teens began to speak out. The Stoneman Douglas students had a press conference appealing for […]
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By Dan Walters, CALmatters After one year of torrential respite, drought may have returned to California, and with it, a renewal of the state’s perpetual conflict over water management. State and federal water systems have told farmers not to expect more than a fifth of their paper allocations, the state Water Resources Control Board is […]
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By Sally Jenkins, Washington Post Every four years, athletes scrape the grime and graft off of the Olympics, and restore them to magnificence. We should demand that the Jessie Digginses, Red Gerards, John Shusters and Lamoureux sisters become the genuine focus of this country’s Olympic movement. Congress should knock down the U.S. Olympic Committee, […]
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By Randy Moore Last year, more than 1,500 wildfires burned over 640,000 acres on National Forest System lands in California, including the Thomas Fire, the largest fire in California’s recorded history. The surrounding communities are still dealing with damage from debris flows caused by a charred and barren landscape that no longer has the protection […]
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