To the community, “Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) is committed to serving our community and it was an honor to be able to be a part of Bread & Broth,” commented Michelle Sower, dean of instruction. Sower was a sponsor crew member for the LTCC Advance Adult Education program at their Adopt A Day dinner […]
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By Frank Kafka (as told to Joe Mathews) I keep hearing you Californians calling your state’s housing crisis Kafkaesque. You are far too kind: I never imagined a nightmare this cruel, absurd, and surreal. I don’t know exactly how I got to California. But I appeared here some weeks ago, in the form of an […]
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To the community, I’m glad that you are opposed publicly to Mr. [Kenny] Curtzwiler’s attempt at supervisor. As I recall back to late October, or perhaps early November, he made a proposal that I contend was absurd. Curtzwiler said that to raise money to repair our city streets, we should assess an added tax against […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was originally sent to South Lake Tahoe enforcement, chief of police, City Council, and city manager, and then to Lake Tahoe News. Dear VHR Enforcement Team, We are in receipt of a fourth “Advisory – Vacation Home Rental Complaint” since the city’s wonderful and effective ordinance which brought South Lake Tahoe […]
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By Joe Mathews To: Governor Jerry Brown of California; Governor Greg Abbott of Texas From: Joe Mathews If North and South Korea can have a peace summit, why can’t California and Texas do the same? The United States desperately needs its two biggest states to figure out how to keep the country together. Sure, you […]
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By Kathryn Reed Public Records Act requests sent to the city of South Lake Tahoe seem to disappear into a dark hole that never see the light of day. It is the city clerk, Suzie Alessi, who is responsible for responding to them. She is an elected official who is only answerable to the residents. […]
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By Lisa Herron What began as a very dry winter in the Lake Tahoe Basin ended with Sierra snowpack approximately 85 percent of normal, thanks to heavy precipitation received during the month of March. However, both the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) and the Reno National Weather Service (NWS) expect a warming trend to develop […]
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By Joe Mathews No Californian is more inspiring than Austin Beutner. The Los Angeles investment banker has gone straight to the top of four major institutions in the last decade—without paying his dues at any of them. It started in 2009 when Beutner, having decided to devote himself to public service after a bicycle accident, […]
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By Robert Percival, The Conversation Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ethical lapses and extravagant spending habits have distracted the public from what he is doing to roll back important environmental protections. Pruitt helped persuade President Trump to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, making the United States the only country in the world to […]
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By Morten T. Hansen, San Francisco Chronicle “Find a way to say YES to things” was the title of the commencement address that Eric Schmidt gave in 2012 at UC Berkeley. The former executive chairman of Google encouraged the graduates to say “yes” to trying new things. Then he told them: “‘Yes’ lets you […]
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