DEMOCRACY IN ACTION: Two Different Outcomes The Tahoe Expeditionary Academy ... is a private school that went into escrow to buy the '60's vintage Crown Motel in Kings Beach owned by the Ferrari family for over 50 years. Kings Beach is designated as a re-development … [Read more...]
Archives for 2014
Fire ! Tahoe’s ‘Katrina’
March 1, 2014 by Leave a Comment
In my youth I worked my way through college and law school as a merchant seaman. My usual run was from Philadelphia to the Mississippi River delta ports. I experienced Hurricane Camile, the last devastating storm to strike the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast before … [Read more...]
Lake Tahoe’s Bureaucratic Megalopoly
January 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Each of these agencies has jurisdictional authority over what happens on and around Lake Tahoe ... Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) U.S. Forest Service Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board (Lahontan) U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Nevada … [Read more...]
The political saga of Lake Tahoe (part 1)
January 8, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Think about how you would tell the political saga of Lake Tahoe to an audience who knew nothing of the Lake. I had the experience of relating our tale to a (presumably) interested group of international travelers in a tea house on a recent trek in Nepal. To say it … [Read more...]
