Tahoe Talk - Tues. 5/5/20

Up-to-date, daily info on news that is happening around Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada! Notes from today’s discussion include:

Local News:
- CA hopping into stage 2 this Friday
- SLT city council posted an agenda for a special meeting tomorrow - the first for new city manager Joe Irvin
- Douglas County Commission announced a special joint meeting with the county board of health for Friday
- North Tahoe public Covid testing site has opened up at the North Tahoe events center in Kings Beach
- Casinos plan to reopen from the gaming control board - Must disinfect cards and chips & table games like blackjack will be limited to 3 players, 6 for craps & 4 for roulette.
- Douglas County has a new superintendent of schools – Keith Lewis was a unanimous choice

National News:
- Cinco de Mayo, Taco Tuesday, #GivingTuesdayNow, #GivingNewsDay
- Global Totals: 3.3M cases, 50K deceased
- Warren Buffet, world’s most famous investor, pulls out all investments of airline companies
- Korean baseball, one of the world’s first major professional sports competitions, returned to action today - with no fans
- Texas park ranger shoved into water during verbal altercation with protestors
- Nike donating 30,000 sneakers to healthcare workers - Air Zoom Pulse, "first shoe designed for the healthcare athlete, an everyday hero
- Nicholas Cage will play Joe Exotic from Tiger King
- 5 year old boy pulled over driving from Utah to CA to buy a Lamborghini since he mom wouldn’t buy it for him

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