It Takes a Village to Run a Village: Leadership vs. Partisanship

An public town hall is scheduled for September 23 to provide information and answer questions about Measure N on the November ballot.

The bankruptcy court approved the sale of radio stations KRLT and KTHO to Rothschild Broadcasting for $275,000.

On August 31, the American Legion Post 119 hosted a 100th birthday party for World War II veteran Ray Groves.

Planning and construction for upgrades to the Pollock Pines Forebay Park have been given the green light by El Dorado County are expected to begin in early 2025 and be completed by the fall.

A $6,000 donation for new playground equipment was presented to the Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe by the The Optimist Club of South Lake Tahoe and the recently formed Junior Optimist Club of South Tahoe High School.

Under a pilot program mandated by California AB1981, jurors in El Dorado County will receive a stipend for jury duty of $100.

The ten-year effort to annex the Meeks Bay Fire Protection District into the North Tahoe Fire Protection District concluded with the approval of the Placer County Local Agency Formation Commission in August.

A partnership of the Marcella Foundation, MountainHouse and Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra worked together to and distribute almost 200 backpacks and school supplies to local students in need.

While the rest of us enjoyed the long weekend, El Dorado County firefighters were called to extinguish several local fires.

The Tahoe Resource Conservation District is hosting a workshop on September 19 with information about the Firewise program and application process.

The California state goal to conserve 30% of its land and coastal waters has advanced, with conserved lands reaching 25% and coastal waters 16%.

The controversial idea of cash reparations divided even Black advocates in the legislature this year. Here’s what’s next.

Amid a Southern California heat wave, about 300 advocates for rent control — with two 10-foot “greedy landlord” puppets — rallied Thursday in downtown Los Angeles, chanting: “The rent is too damn high!”

Lawmakers approved two bills to allow some community colleges to provide bachelor’s degrees in nursing. That’s setting up another conflict with the California State University, which already offers these bachelor’s degrees.

California voters passed Proposition 22 four years ago. The ballot initiative, backed by Uber, Lyft and other gig companies, promised the state’s more than 1 million gig workers new benefits, such as guaranteed minimum earnings, health care stipends, occupational accident insurance and accidental death insurance.

Inland communities with big population booms will experience the most extreme heat days under climate change projections. The combination puts more people at risk — and many cities are unprepared.

Information about how the state’s K-12 students are performing is located on several sites and is difficult to understand, a new report finds.

The California School Dashboard makes it hard for the public to see how schools and districts are performing over multiple years, concludes the report's lead author.

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was spent and what effect it’s had, other than the number of unhoused people has continued to climb.

Almost everyone in California has health insurance. That trend reflects about a decade and a half of policymaking designed to expand access to health care. The state’s average uninsured rate has dropped from nearly one in four Californians in 2009 to less than one in ten today.

CalFire received the first of five planes promised by the federal government, a former Coast Guard C-130 Hercules air tanker.

California’s unemployment rate, 5.2% of its labor force in July, is no longer the nation’s highest after months of having that dubious distinction.