BY HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
CBS News has hired Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor. In his first official appearance on Tuesday morning to talk about President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, anchor Anne-Marie Green introduced Mulvaney as “a former Office of Management and Budget director,” and said, “So happy to have you here…. You’re the guy to ask about this.”
South Lake Tahoe has seen a drop in its homeless population over the past year with Project Homekey programs and the efforts of the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless.
Right on cue, Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana today told a reporter that states not only should decide the issue of abortion but should also be able to decide the issues of whether interracial marriage should be legal and whether couples should have access to contraception.
BY THE SACRAMENTO BEE EDITORIAL BOARD
The decision to place a loved one in psychiatric care can be traumatic, let alone the more overwhelming possibility that they might decline the care they need. Left untreated, psychiatric disorders can lead to homelessness, crime and incarceration or isolation in which the conditions may worsen.
Since I (Allen Stansbury) shut down my daily briefing e-newsletter I’ve been asked to contribute to the El Dorado County Democratic Central Committee monthly newsletter by way of a column.
The naturalist who was leading the hike was skilled at pointing out the little details. I spotted several small foamy blobs on the riverside vegetation and inquired, “What’s that?” “Oh, that’s what spittlebugs do in the springtime,” replied our hike leader. I was immediately fascinated by these tiny plant-sucking nymphs which encase themselves in foam. It was the beginning of a lifelong passion and interest in the study of nature.
A salute to our libraries serving everyone in the community in the best and worst of times. Thanks to Sara Schwartz, library patron, and C. R. Kendall, library commissioner.
Ah! Conspiracy Theories—the new American pastime! Such fun! And so democratic! Anyone can play. You don’t need to be smart or rich or have any special equipment to participate.
El Dorado Opportunity Knocks Continuum of Care’s proposed five-year plan to combat homelessness countywide centers around four goals — stopping homelessness, increasing access to housing for all county residents, increasing access to homeless emergency response services and building collective solutions.
El Dorado County continues its mission to override the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s decision to deny individual assistance for residents impacted by the Caldor Fire.
Due to the recent school board decisions not to enforce the state’s mask mandate, teachers have been caught in the crossfire. These decisions were presumably made because of the recent protests, some of which went way too far —
I am compelled to write this letter to the EDUHSD because of the weak and harmful decision to ignore state health laws to pacify those that were loud, vitriolic, and even violent. The Board has made the choice to allow the State mandates to be broken, although they were elected and sworn in to uphold the law. That is a fact that is undeniable.
As we know, most Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill stating that it was a slippery slide to socialism. Now that the money has started being distributed and projects have begun, a handful of these same congresspeople are now extolling the benefits of the bill for their districts and states thus implying that they voted for the bill.
There’s a private Facebook group with nearly 8,000 members called Conservatives Moving to Texas. Three of them are sitting at a dinner table — munching on barbecue weenies and brownies — in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. None are vaxxed.
The city of South Lake Tahoe, in partnership with Related California and Saint Joseph Community Land Trust, announced last week that the Sugar Pine Village project has been awarded $17,359,470 by the California Strategic Growth Council’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities program.
For the third consecutive year partners of the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project have wrapped up another season of forest treatments in the Tahoe National Forest. French Meadows partnership treated roughly 1,000 acres using a combination of mastication, mechanical thinning, hand thinning and prescribed fires.
Illia Ponomarenko, a defense reporter with the Kyiv Independent, reported today that according to Ukraine’s top general, “Russia’s blitzkrieg on day one has failed.”
The PIT Count is an essential element in our effort to end El Dorado County homelessness, as the data gathered from this census shows us so much more than how many people are homeless in El Dorado County – we also learn more about who is homeless and why. The PIT Count presents a great opportunity to raise awareness of the challenges our homeless citizens face, hear personal experiences from those experiencing homelessness, and demonstrate the compassion and generosity of our community!
Just for fun, because today feels like a good day to talk about Grover Cleveland….
The economy has boomed under President Joe Biden, putting the lie to the old trope that Democrats don’t manage the economy as well as Republicans.
The other big news today is that the Republican National Committee, meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah, censured Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for joining the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.