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Youth Forum 2025: Uplifting Teen Voices
On March 3rd, 2025, the Community Collaborative of Tahoe-Truckee (CCTT) and its partners hosted their annual youth forum. The annual event brings together local young people with decision-makers i...
Sierra Watershed Education Partnerships
Listed under: Environment
The California Environmental Quality Act, CEQA, is the state’s signature environmental legislation, and is also often named as the villain in the state’s housing shortage. But the story may not be that simple.
How the California mental health crisis emerged out of the state’s history of deinstitutionalization and laws designed to protect the mentally ill, as well as the communities around them.
Heat pumps, an energy-efficient way to both heat and cool homes, are a necessary element of California's climate goal of net zero carbon emissions. Here's what they are, how they work, and how to get one.
The Williamson Act, passed in 1965, now keeps more than 16 million acres of farmland out of the hands of developers. Here's how the law puts the brakes on the development of California agricultural properties.
How California’s 10 state conservancies buy up open land and shield it from developers to preserve the natural environment for public use.
Long-duration energy storage is essential if renewables are to become the basis for a future, carbon-neutral power grid. Here's how California is leading the race to store energy from solar, wind, and other clean sources for use whenever it's needed.
Democracy is a 2,500-year-old system of government still looked on today as the best system, because under a democratic system, the people govern themselves. But is that all there is to it? What is democracy? And how does it work …
What is the California Coastal Commission? How one of the state’s most powerful agency protects public access to the state’s scenic coast from Mexico to Oregon.
This year, a series of extreme events in California and around the country have wreaked havoc, driven by climate change. How prepared are we for things to get worse?
Since the Gold Rush era, land reclamation projects have helped to build California, but they are also damaging the state’s environment for people, plants and animals by eliminating essential wetlands.
California has used reclamation districts to turn millions of acres of unusable swamps into fertile agricultural land, starting in the earliest days of the Gold Rush. Here’s how it happened.
Zoning laws determine what can be built and where. These laws have shaped California, but are they really just tools for social engineering? The history of zoning is closely tied to racial segregation, as well as the state's shortage of …
The California Supreme Court has kept the state at the forefront of legal issues surrounding abortion, the death penalty and same-sex marriage, starting in its earliest days in the Gold Rush era.
California has some of the worst economic inequality in the United States. Is the housing crisis a cause?
Solar power, and a network of giant battery storage facilities, are playing an essential role in moving California toward its goal of exclusive reliance on renewable energy sources.
The history of transportation in California has shaped the state, from the railroads to today’s highways, making the need for planning increasingly urgent. Here’s how it all happened, and where we stand today.
Thousands of miles of railroad track, including some in Santa Cruz County, now sit idle. The fate of those largely abandoned tracks has become a burning controversy.
California keeps on taking legislative steps that will keep it ranked in the top 10 of voter-friendly states.
Community service districts can do most anything a city government can do. Here’s how they work and how to start one.
The pesky mosquito can be deadly as well as annoying. Here’s how local governments in California have been waging war on mosquitoes for more than a century.
What do resource conservation districts protect? Pretty much everything that’s worth saving.
Residential wells are drying up in the state’s main agricultural region at the same time that agricultural businesses consume almost 90 percent of the water there.
Since long before the COVID-19 pandemic, states have possessed broad authority to protect public health, even to suspend laws and commandeer private property. Here’s why, and how it works.
How California's extensive public school system is organized and managed, explained.
From Tahoe Guide...
The City of South Lake Tahoe and Visit Lake Tahoe present the 2025 Live at Lakeview Summer Music Series, returning for its twelfth season of free Thursday concerts on the beach.
From Sierra Sun...
Tahoe City Public Utility District (TCPUD) is preparing to reconstruct 2.4 miles of the West Shore Trail between Sunnyside and Blackwood Creek. The reconstruction will improve safety, accessibility, and the trail experience for all users.
From Auburn Journal...
Is there going to be a Fourth of July fireworks show in Auburn? That was the question discussed at the May 12 city council meeting.
From Tahoe Daily Tribune...
The Tahoe Transportation District Board of Directors has named Jim Marino as the agency's new Executive Director, effective May 7, 2025. Marino has served as Acting District Manager since the retirement of longtime District Manager Carl Hasty at the end of 2024.
From CalMatters...
From Placer Herald...
In December 2020, I wrote a City Hall Beat column about General Fund revenues. I noted the two most significant sources of revenue funding our police, fire, library and parks and recreation departments are property taxes and sales tax revenue.
From Los Angeles Times...
From YubaNet...
The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution increasing a certain fee on new development in the Northstar Community Services District at a meeting on Tuesday, May 13.
From The Union...
From Placer Sentinel...
Placer County’s Business Resource Center has reopened its Rocklin office to help small business owners and entrepreneurs with walk-in or virtual appointments available four days a week.
From Loomis News...
Each year, bands come to the Four Corners downtown to perform on the second Friday of the month through August. The concerts will feature food trucks, bounce houses and more. The event is free to all, but concertgoers are urged to bring lawn chairs for the show.
Placer County is launching a series of events in May to recognize Affordable Housing Month and underscore the county’s ongoing commitment to addressing the critical need for safe, stable and affordable housing for all residents.
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