Winter snowfall record broken

Odin Rasco

Staff writer

The persistent snowfall busting buildings and battering byways is also breaking records, as this winter has now taken the title of the second-snowiest season on record in Tahoe.

Data collected from U.C. Berkeley’s Central Sierra Snow Lab located at Donner Pass shows that this nearly relentless winter has surpassed the snowfall records set by the 1982-83 season. This winter now trails behind only the 1951-52 season for the most snowfall on record.

Climatologists raised concerns in early March that a then-incoming atmospheric river had the potential to melt away the snowpack. Water managers across the state prepared for potential flooding in anticipation of snowmelt runo taxing water storage.

The precipitation that came to the central Sierra stayed frosty, however, dumping more than 288 inches of snow onto the region between Feb. 22 and March 21. With an average of 10.6 inches per day for the past month, the snow has taken a toll on residents and businesses.

The weight of snow on a roof can cause potential failures; a Cal Fire El Dorado-Amador Unit report issued March 14 showed that of 129 buildings

■ See SNOWFALL page A8

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One that starts in schools.

Smith attended a conference of rhetoric professors where the conference leader, Asao Inoue, declared it racist to grade students on traditional English.

“If you use a single standard to grade your students’ languaging, you engage in racism. ... White language supremacy.”

Smith sent a group email in response, saying it’s a disservice to minority kids not to teach standard English. Instead of addressing Smith’s point, other professors attacked him, calling him racist.

“Do you enjoy using Western modes of argument to invalidate people of color?”

“I hope for the day that folks like you will learn how to check their privilege.”

“We are professors in communication,” Smith told me. “I thought we could communicate. I was so wrong. ... They saw in me a threat. ... a Black person saying it’s OK to teach Black students standardized English.”

An academic named Eve accused Smith of “perpetuating harm.” Other academics joined in to praise the “tremendous labor” Eve spent writing the email.

“They’re victims!” I say, bewildered.

“That’s the point,” Smith responds. “Perpetuate the victimhood.”

“This isn’t even logical! Has academia gone insane?” I ask.

Smith laughs. “Yes, it has gone insane.”

Today some sensible people are pushing back. Education reformer Chris Rufo proposes a DEI alternative called “EMC.” EMC stands for equality, merit and colorblindness.

Sounds good to me, but woke college activists say “colorblindness” is evil because it denies that racism exists.

“Merit” is bad because the way it’s measured must be biased, because the results show racial disparity. This is why some colleges have dropped admission tests and why many high schools eliminated honors classes.

“If you wanted to hold down a group of people,” says Smith, “... this ‘woke’ thing is a good strategy.”

The achievement gap between Black and white students has been widening lately.

A better solution, says Smith, is to ignore the censors. Debate.

“People don’t say what they feel because they don’t want to get canceled, get called racist. People are censoring. We have to stop doing that.”

Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.”

Parker Continued from A4 beautiful system they designed, conceived to limit government and protect individual liberty, would someday see government at all levels taking almost half our gross national product, generating massive deficits and national debt larger than our nation’s entire economy.

Nor would they believe that the courts have been used to remove all vestige of religion from public life or that Supreme Court justices felt it was their job to redefine marriage.

The percentage of Americans that have a “great deal/quite a lot” of confidence in their major institutions, reported by Gallup last July, are as follows: the presidency 23%; U.S. Supreme Court 25%; Congress 7%; public schools 28%; newspapers 16%; criminal justice system 14%; television news 11%.

Please, Mr. Biden, do your own job and let Israelis run their own country.

Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show “Cure America with Star Parker.”

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