Tahoe Talk - 10/20/20

From around the globe to out your backdoor, here are the topics to keep you relevant and up-to-date! Local News:  - City of SLT Council agenda items overview - Multiple bank robberies in the area lately - 4 arrested in major drug bust in SLT - Tahoe Land podcast wins highest award for any TV/Radio/Digital entity - New Truckee restaurant offering ‘Mountain Italian’ cuisine - Earth just experienced the hottest September since records began- Rave: Zoom will start letting people host paid-entry online events with a new service called OnZoom. Beta version available now, worldwide 2021 - Two Bi-Rite locations in the SF are selling brown-paper-wrapped bundles of fall leaves, and for $14.95, you can have around two handfuls' worth of seasonally appropriate plant refuse - Americans spent $3.4 billion in a single year on cracked screen repairs.  - Nearly half of all Americans say they’d find it difficult to pay for an unexpected $250 expense right now. 35% of respondents are losing sleep over personal economic concerns. - The median price of a California home skyrocketed to $712,430 in September — shattering the state record for the fourth month in a row — as sales hit their highest level in more than a decade. It took 11 days on average to sell a single-family home in September — the shortest period ever recorded  Friday, Oct. 23 = Nat’l Croc Day Fact Check: - TahoeMemes causing more fake waves saying that ski resorts will not open until Jan. 15 - FALSE!