To the community, Cannot tell you how much your article on media access means to me and a host of other living in ED Hills, Serrano. You hit that nail squarely on the head. There is a pending lawsuit as of April 17, but access to us has been limited these past four years. I […]
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To the community, After 1.5 years of negotiations with the developer Laulima, the North Tahoe Public Utility District (NTPUD) board has voted to pursue a 70-year lease — really a sale — of our community’s free and clear lakefront venue, North Tahoe Event Center. The lease states that Laulima can sublet or assign to any […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County is getting petty and personal – and Lake Tahoe News isn’t going to take it anymore. We are done being silent. El Dorado County has an image problem. El Dorado County says one thing (that it wants to be transparent) and does another (cuts off access). El Dorado County […]
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By Dianne Feinstein and Joanne Marchetta Twenty-one years ago, President Bill Clinton came to Lake Tahoe to announce a major environmental restoration effort. That first Lake Tahoe Summit launched an unprecedented public-private partnership that has since invested more than $2 billion to save the lake. Over two decades, through the environmental improvement program, the Tahoe […]
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By Dan Walters, CalMatters With all the recent hoopla about California’s record-low unemployment rate and the heady prospect of its becoming No. 5 in global economic rankings, it is easy to lose sight of another salient fact: It is the nation’s most poverty-stricken state. So says the U.S. Census Bureau in its “supplemental measure” of […]
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By Brian Uhler Many South Lake Tahoe residents love their dogs. Most police officers love dogs, too. I’ve heard it said by someone not so long ago, “The more people I meet, the more I love dogs!” We at the police department understand and share in this fondness. However, we receive weekly complaints from community […]
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By Joe Mathews If the apocalypse comes to California, I’ll be ready. After all, I’ve been to San Juan Bautista. This summer I visited the San Benito County town, which has centuries of experience with the ending of worlds, as Armageddon drew closer than ever. North Korean missiles can reach California. The American president has […]
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By Jason Geddes, Reno Gazette-Journal As every Nevadan knows, our state sees a lot of sunshine. What is news to some, however, is how we’ve increasingly used that natural resource to our advantage by adding significant amounts of solar power to the state’s energy mix. And with recent cost declines – 85 percent since […]
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By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times This will make me sound grouchy and misanthropic, but I sometimes wonder if what makes America great isn’t so much its people as its trees and mountains. In contrast to many advanced countries, we have a vast and spectacular publicly owned wilderness, mostly free and available to all. In […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County has a competent deputy chief administrative officer and former chief budget officer working in our administration, Laura Schwartz. She understands cash flow, spending and overall, she is pretty smart. I understand she has a master’s degree in accounting. Darn good credentials. In fact, about the only thing I remember […]
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