The Moonshine Ink team swaps our reporter hats for convener hats, hosting video conference calls on important community topics. Our mission is to be a platform for empathy, ideas, and rebuilding in the weeks and months to come. Bringing people together is a special passion of the paper and, we can tell, of our community. We want all walks of life to join. This July 2020 article gives the story of how the pandemic was the mother of the invention of these now-sought-after conferences.
June 15, 2020: All this and a wildfire, too? The world spins madly on in addition to viruses, protests, and politics, meaning it's officially wildfire season in Tahoe.
March 27, 2020: The stories are familiar to everyone, but no less heartbreaking: Employees are being laid off and businesses struggle to pay rent, are applying for loans. But there is work underfoot to “mend our nets.”