Explore South Lake’s Latino community
August 18, 2008
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
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Site set up to encourage Hispanic participation
April 15, 2008
It’s the American dream that brings them here, and it may end up being their downfall, one Kings Beach resident said at a community meeting. An immigrant from Colombia, David Escobar, 38, said he sees Hispanics coming to the United States in pursuit of a better life. To achieve that, they often work long hours with few days off. As a result, he said, their children are left to be raised by the television, not belonging to either the Latino or the Anglo culture. Read more
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Second BMP Talks meeting adds to solutions
April 9, 2008
Participants in the second BMPTalks meeting April 2 came up with several innovative solutions to the problems they identified in their first meeting two weeks earlier. BMPTalks is a series of meetings between Tahoe citizens and policymakers on ways to improve BMP regulations.
The group made several suggestions that could make the BMPs process easier and more accessible for Tahoe residents. (Here’s a full list of solutions proposed by participants at the meeting.) Read more
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First meeting of BMPTalks highlights policy challenges
March 25, 2008
Participants in the first meeting of BMP Talks, a forum organized by the Reynolds School of Journalism to discuss ways to improve BMPs, identified concerns about effectiveness as one reason compliance with the landscaping regulations is so low throughout the Tahoe basin.
Click here to watch the highlights from the meeting. Read more
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Keeping Tahoe Green
March 16, 2008
Ten years in prison and a fine of up to $750,000—would you pay that price for a better view of Lake Tahoe from your house? Perhaps not, but many seriously consider it, and some actually do pay such a price. Patricia Vincent, a 58-year-old resident of Incline Village, is facing these steep fines after recently cutting down three trees on federal property—trees that were obstructing her view of the lake from her house.
But why are the consequences so drastic? Why would anyone choose to accept them? The answers to these questions might be as numerous as the trees around Lake Tahoe. Read more
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BMP community conversation to begin soon
February 26, 2008
Best Management Practices are one of the most discussed landscaping topics at Lake Tahoe. To help homeowners, specialists and officials come to a common understanding about how to encourage and regulate them more effectively, OurTahoe.org is facilitating a BMP forum this spring.
Click here to watch a video of participants talking about this project. (Flash player installed needed). Read more
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BMP compliance is low in Tahoe Basin
February 12, 2008
For many Tahoe residents, lake clarity is the most important environmental issue in the basin. Yet, landscaping practices designed to prevent run off and erosion and keep the lake blue are not popular among Tahoe homeowners. More than 80 percent of residential properties in the Tahoe basin have failed to be certified as compliant with BMPs.
Click on the image to watch soundslide on North Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden. 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.
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