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Tahoe Talk - Feel Good Friday 4/17/20

Every Friday we change up the dynamic of our podcast to only deliver you wholesome, positive news locally and nationally:

- Overland Meat & Seafood Co. gives away 1,000 pounds of beef in under 2 hours
- Arcade Belts donates masks to local health workers
- Incline Village library is using their 3D printer to make protective masks
- Bentley Heritage Distillery produces 6,000 gallons of hand sanitizer for free to first responders
- 93 yr old woman gets shipment of 150 Coors lights after photo goes viral of her holding up “I need more beer” sign
- $7.5M raised so far for the celebrity “All-In Challenge”
- $14M raised for “America’s Food Fund” 
- Tom Hanks films first ever SNL show from home during recovery
 

Tahoe Talk - Thurs. 4/16/20

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

Local Topics: 
- Forest Service announces, then reissues, closures through April 30
- South Tahoe Event Center on the agenda today with the Douglas Co. Commissioners
- Antibodies tests coming to Northern Nevada that would test people
- Tahoe Truckee Area Regional Transit is implementing further service reductions to bus service - local service hours temporarily reduced 8-6 Mon – Fri & 9-6 over the weekends

National Topics:
- 5.2M more Americans filed for unemployment last week, total approx. 22M
- World COVID-19 Totals: 17.7M tested, 2.1M confirmed cases, 136K deceased = 6.4% death rate
- SmithField Foods meat processing plant  in South Dakota is the largest US hotspot per capita
- It's "National Wear You Pajamas To Work Day"

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www.TahoeDailyTribune.com
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Tahoe Talk - Wed. 4/15/20

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

Local Topics: 
- Lakeside Inn & Casino closing their doors permanently
- Reno Renown Hospital converts parking garage to 1,400 bed facility 
- Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe set to expand across highway
- IKON pass holders receive $100 credit, deadlines to purchase extended 

National Topics:
- Federal Tax Day pushed back to July 15, state deadlines are different
- Trump says he’s freezing WHO funding
- Obama, Bernie and Warren endorse Biden
- Greta Thunberg on rolling stone cover - "Now or Never"
- Russia’s Putin acknowledging large spike in Covid cases

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www.TahoeDailyTribune.com
www.SierraSun.com

Tahoe Talk - Tues. 4/14/20

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

Local Topics: 
- New fire chief for South Lake Tahoe - Clive Savacool
- Roundup of official gov't meetings around the lake this week:
---> SLT City Council, Douglas Co. Planning Commission, IVGID Board of Trustees, Douglas Co. Commissioners
- Burning Man cancelled

National Topics:
- Gov. Newsome announces pact between CA, WA, and OR
- Uncharacteristic, campaign style, presidential press conference last night 
- Cities banning cars from streets to give room for cyclists and pedestrians 
- Farmers: Adapting from wholesale to retail. Huge twist in supply chain
- “Open Up America” task force/council officially formed today
- National #LookUpAtTheSkyDay

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www.TahoeDailyTribune.com
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Tahoe Talk - Mon. 4/13/20

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

Local Topics: 
- Earthquake Saturday morning out by Mono Lake 

- Incline still getting hit with visitors coming to the area 
- Tahoe Transportation District secured a grant that started free service on all routes yesterday
- A company out of Reno landed a deal with the US government for $550 million dollars

- The Tahoe Women’s Community Fund dished out $125,000 to 11 local non-profits

National Topics:
- Google and Apple team up to release a Covid19 tracking system
- British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, released from the hospital
- OPEC (Saudi Arabia & Russia) agree to cut oil production in efforts to stabilize the market
- No new emojis being released this year
- China cracking down on reporting of virus within their country
- #NationalScrabbleDay

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Tahoe Talk - Feel Good Friday 4/10/20

We're switching it up on the pod this "Good Friday" and only delivering you wholesome, positive news:

- John Krasinski’s got the Hamilton creator on Zoom chat to lead the cast in an online rendition of the show’s opening number for a 9-year old girl who missed her chance to see the musical Hamilton
- Trolls World Tour opens up today in your home
- Learn guitar for free at Fender Play – 3 month free subscription
- After 13 years, 2 giant pandas in a Hong Kong zoo finally mated
- Tyler Perry picked up the tabs for all the elderly citizens who were shopping during the senior shopping hour in Atlanta
- Matthew McConaughey did some virtual bingo games with a Texas nursing home
- Michigan man earlier this week stood on the corner of a gas station by the hospital and held up a sign that said free gas for nurses – he ended up spending $900
- #GlobalWorkFromHomeDay
- National Hug Your Dog Day
- National Siblings Day
- Stock market closed today, but up 2,025 points this week
- 7pm in NY, everyone on their balconies cheering
- 370,000 total RECOVERED Covid cases
- Final Note: google “Good Morning Ralph 3 year old”

Tahoe Talk - Thurs. 4/9/20

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

Local Topics: 
- Woman in SLT arrested for licking groceries at local Safeway
- NV Gov. Sisolak announces new closures to curb the spread of Coronavirus
- Alpine County "Death Ride" in July officially cancelled

National Topics:
- 6.6M Americans file for unemployment last week (3 week total = 15M+)
- Trump vs. Biden 2020! Bernie Sanders drops out of the presidential race
- Stock market see large jump out of the gates this morning
- Texas and Connecticut arise as new hot spots
- NY deadliest day yet: 800 fatalities in 24 hours (statewide death toll = double 9/11 attack)

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Tahoe Talk - Wed. 4/8/20

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

Local Topics: 
- Gas prices in NV hit 27 year low
- Quilting group in Incline Village making masks for health care workers
- Reno airport employee test positive for Covid-19

National Topics:
- Wuhan has reopened after long and brutal lockdown
- More stimulus checks possible. Trump and congressional leaders begin talks on another recovery package
- US highest one day death toll
- Totals: Nearly 1.5M cases and 83,500 deaths globally… 1,800 in the US

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Tahoe Talk - Tues. 4/7/20

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

Local Topics: 
- NV Gov.Sisolak may "tighten the faucet" if Nevadans continue to not follow protocols
- Agenda for City of SLT special city council meeting
- Soroptimist and Rotary of SLT online auctions are live right now!

National Topics:
- British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, is in ICU as of Mon. @ 3pm
- The death toll in USA is worse than 6 wars combined… Totals: 77k globally, near 11k USA
- #WorldHealthDay #NationalBeerDay

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Tahoe Talk - Mon. 4/6/20

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

Local Topics: 
- Weather: NHP reports 23 crashes Monday morning alone
- Snowpack report: 72% for Tahoe Basin
- 'Virtual Tip Jar' established for local workers

National Topics:
- Officials warn “our hardest days are ahead” and Surgeon General says “this will be our Pearl Harbor Moment”
- Tiger at Bronx, NY public zoo tested positive for Covid (officials suspected it was contracted through it’s keeper)
- Walmart ramps up cleaning efforts, 2 Chicago employees die
- Powerful speech from monarch Queen Elizabeth: “We will meet again!”
- #NationalTwinkieDay

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