By Cedric Yeh Three months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Congress officially charged the Smithsonian and the National Museum of American History with collecting and preserving artifacts that would tell the story of that day. But where to start? If you were given the task, what objects would you collect? Curators working at […]
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By Louis Patterson When the music comes on at a rave, a synergetic feeling of mass escape and euphoria runs through the crowd. But this unparalleled collective high has come at a cost. In July, three people were found dead at the Hard Summer Music Festival near Los Angeles. During the two-day festival, which drew […]
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Publisher’s note: The following letter was sent Sept. 7, 2016, from Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to Tom Vilsack, secretary of the USDA. Dear Tom, I ask that you reprogram $38 million in previously-appropriated funding in order to execute 19 high-priority tree removal projects, for which environmental clearances have already been granted, that cover 38,000 acres […]
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By Larry Weitzman In my last column about financing the new sheriff facility, which the majority of the county fathers and mothers voted to initiate, I spoke of a possible prohibition against doing so without voter approval (50 percent, plus one). The California Constitution says that any debt authorized by a legislative body greater than […]
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By Joe Mathews As California celebrates Admission Day—we joined the United States on Sept. 9, 1850—we should give ourselves an overdue present: A founding story of our statehood starring someone we can be proud of, both as Californians and Americans. Like too much else in California, the narrative of our statehood is sprawling and complicated, […]
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To Liberty Utilities, STPUD and the SLT Engineering Dept., On July 14 I wrote a letter and asked that it be published because I was having troubles getting a streetlight fixed after contacting all the proper people and agencies and waiting for a period of time. Well here we are months later after my letter […]
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It was seven years ago today that Lake Tahoe News was launched. The story was about the parade celebrating Jaycee Lee Dugard’s release from captivity. Much has happened in Lake Tahoe since 2009. Lake Tahoe News has been there to record the good, the bad, the happy, the mundane, the excitement and so on. We have […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee California’s perpetual debate over public employee pensions has always revolved about what’s called the “California rule” – a series of court decisions that seemingly prohibit any changes in pension benefits once they are granted. The debate has intensified in recent years as the California Public Employee Retirement System and other […]
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By Dan Flores If you don’t have a coyote story, give it time. You will. The tawny, golden-eyed, sharp-nosed wild dog of the American deserts is now our backyard predator, everywhere from Miami to Seattle. The stories pile up. During a heat wave, in broad daylight, a coyote strolls into a sandwich shop in Chicago […]
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By Nina Revoyr, Los Angeles Times Last month, two friends and I backpacked for a week in the Sierra Nevada. We hiked through meadows dotted with wildflowers, slept beneath snow-draped peaks and met plenty of other hikers: the dad and son whose Green Bay Packers caps sparked a conversation about our mutual ties to Wisconsin; scientists […]
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