This is How Rumors Start…or being a responsible journalist
January 6th, 2009 by Nancy | Post a Comment
Forbes Mountain Magazine visits Truckee
Did any of you read the most recent article on the Town of Truckee in the Forbes Life Mountain Time magazine? Wow! Author Mike Kessler interviewed Rick Holliday, president of Holliday Development, Mark Tanner owner of Tanner Construction and Billy McCullough, owner and chef at Dragonfly Restaurant. Believe it or not two “fact checkers” called Rick to make sure that the information was correct and this is what we got:
According to Mr. Kessler, the Railyard project is a $500 million luxury condominium project that is already under construction. The reality is that the draft EIR was recently released and that most of the discussion has been around infrastructure and traffic studies. In addition, the first phase of the project is proposed to be focused around a boutique hotel, movie theatres, and smaller multifamily homes.
Mark Tanner was identified as a carpenter. Although he may be a great carpenter his real job is running his construction company and building some of the nicest houses in the area with some of the best service.
Mr. Kessler also stated that Tahoe gets an unthinkable average of 400 inches of snow annually. That sounded like a lot since we are usually all praying for the white stuff and saving shower water in buckets to flush the toilets, so I looked up the annual averages and found that since 1903 the average snowfall in Tahoe is 194.4″ annually, according to the Western Regional Climate Center. Other websites range up to 100″ higher but nothing was even close to 400″.
I guess the moral of the story is still….don’t believe everything you read!
