By Kiera Butler, Mother Jones People love to complain about the wastefulness of meal-kit delivery companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh. The baggies that hold a single scallion. The thousands of miles of shipping. The endless cardboard boxes. Those problems are annoying, but ultimately they’re not environmental catastrophes: The baggies don’t take up all […]
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By Larry Weitzman A new and different challenge has been brought against El Dorado County’s road financing plan, again for failure to follow the law. In this case the Mitigation Fee Act under which the county requires home builders, large, small and singular to pay what are called Traffic Impact Mitigation fees to the county […]
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By Troy Matthews and Barbara Bannar It is that time of year again. It is time for the youth in our beautiful community to take the big plunge. We, the members of the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education, wish to congratulate each and every member of South Tahoe High School and Mount […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was sent to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on June 7, 2017. The Taxpayers Association of El Dorado County requests that funding for Senior Legal Services not be removed from the budget. The Taxpayers Association recognizes the difficult position the BOS is in as it attempts to allocate limited […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County has one of the highest per capita percentage of seniors in California. So, it is understandable that the county has had a longstanding senior legal program and a very successful one at that; handling a multitude of problems and protecting seniors from being preyed upon, seeing 2,000 clients a […]
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To the community, In addition to leadership events, club meetings, and recreation trips, the Club Live program at the South Tahoe Middle School promotes service to others and on May 22, Club Live sponsored a Bread & Broth Adopt A Day of Nourishment. At the Monday meal program leaders Larry and Paula Lambdin and club […]
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By Edward Joseph Pierini Jr., Sacramento Bee The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development classifies a Sacramento family of four with annual earnings of $59,350 as low income; for a single person, it’s $41,550. HUD’s low-income classification sounds about right because, with this income, many can’t afford Sacramento County’s median home sales price […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the May 22, 2017, San Jose Mercury News. There’s more bad news to come from CalPERS, the nation’s largest pension plan. In December, the board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System approved phase-in of a rate increase for the state and local government agencies that provide most of […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County’s relatively new CAO, Don Ashton, tries to make a case for new and higher taxes. In his bottom line last paragraph of his June 6 column in Lake Tahoe News he says: “Here’s the bottom line: we have no control over state mandates that are underfunded; we have no […]
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By Erika D. Smith, Sacramento Bee We do a lot of talking about the housing crisis in this state. But I’m beginning to think the word “crisis” isn’t strong enough to convey just how alarmed every Californian should be that the cost of meeting a basic necessity of life – you know, shelter – […]
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