Explore South Lake’s Latino community
Over the past few months, I have conducted an experiment in journalism to see if using a process called civic mapping, combined with using multimedia tools (audio, photographs, edited video, and networking software) would enable me to cover South Lake Tahoe’s Latino community in a new way.
My goal was to find a rich and authentic way to report that invited the community’s participation in the storytelling. The 12 videos in this package include interviews with residents and highlights of significant places in the Latino community. Read more »
From morals to economics, poverty is everyone’s problem
Lisa Marsh, 39, is a South Lake Tahoe resident and a single mother of three. She dreams of a better life for herself and her children, but the realities of everyday living often get in the way of dreams.
“A lot of us don’t like to classify ourselves as the ‘have-nots,’ and yet at the same time you start looking around and going my god there is just no way we will never be able to buy a house,” Marsh said.
Read more or click to watch the slide show.
Telling their own stories
Alex Reyes, 15, has an important story to tell. It’s a common one amongst his peers — his parents came to the United States from Mexico in search of a better life, but in trying to provide that, spend little time with their children.
As a journalist, my instinct is to tell that story. A year ago, I would have. I would have interviewed Alex, maybe his parents, and written about his life.
But I didn’t do that. After spending a year in the Reynold’s School of Journalism master’s program at the University of Nevada, Reno, I took a different approach.
Instead of telling his story, I let him do it. Read more »
Landscaping
BMP Talks participants present their BMP solutionsOn Thursday, May 8th, the final BMP Talks meeting took place in Kings Beach, CA. Participants presented and proposed to the public their solutions to BMPs and celebrated... Read more »
Recreation
Creating Conversation Within a Network SocietyOver the past year as the recreation correspondent for OurTahoe.org, I developed an interactive, environmental journalism Web site called, LifeMoreNatural.com. Life... Read more »
People
From morals to economics, poverty is everyone’s problemLisa Marsh, 39, is a South Lake Tahoe resident and a single mother of three. She dreams of a better life for herself and her children, but the realities of everyday... Read more »
Community
Important places in the Latino communityWhile many Americans enjoy Cinco de Mayo, few understand its historical significance of the day in Mexican History. Watch Arturo Rangel, Tere Tibbetts, and Alejandra... Read more »
Voices
Telling their own storiesAlex Reyes, 15, has an important story to tell. It’s a common one amongst his peers — his parents came to the United States from Mexico in search of a better... Read more »
Nuestro Tahoe
Tahoe Latinos confront garbage problemNorth Lake Tahoe residents were talking trash at the last Nuestro Tahoe community meeting — some even took pictures. Identified at an earlier meeting as one of... Read more »
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- Hearing planned in Incline tree-felling case - The federal trial for an Incline Village woman charged with hiring a tree-cutting company to chop three Ponderosa Pines from her Lake Tahoe property has been canceled and a change-of-plea hearing scheduled May 1.
- Truckee man takes torch to North Pole - A Truckee man who reached the North Pole this week carrying an unlit torch for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games plans to discuss his experience and environmental issues Saturday by audio and video transmissions with participants at a Lake Tahoe festival.
- Quake pattern watched closely - As earthquakes continue to shake Reno, two reports released this month give new insight into the likely characteristics of a temblor at Lake Tahoe.
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