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The Speaker Toppled
Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – May 28, 2022 Yesterday, the Speaker of the Assembly ignored our bipartisan letter to let the gas tax bill pass. In other news, yesterday the Speaker was toppled. The position of Assembly Speaker is equivalent to Pelosi’s role in D.C. For six years, it’s been held by a guy named Anthony…
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Memorial Day Weekend 2022
By Donna Westfall – May 28, 2022 It’s going to be a beautiful weekend with some rain, but not much. Come Monday, it’s going to reach a high of 57 and a low of 47. The sun should be shinning and we’ll have some wind. Memorial Day is held on the last Monday in May,…
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Crescent Seafood
By Donna Westfall – May 26, 2022 It was lunchtime and fish sounded like just the ticket. Would it be Fisherman’ Restaurant or the Chart Room? Turned out Fisherman’s was closed and we had just been to the Chart Room a week ago so we sauntered into Crescent Seafood. Doug and I split a bowl…
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The Aftermath
Commentary by Samuel Strait – May 26, 2022 As with any horrific event that occurs in this Country, or even in thebroader world, it seems that public and private figures feel compelledto offer up some sort of message where they find the need to be “doingsomething” about the latest in a growing series of unspeakable…
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The Riot Act
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – Something very fishy happened yesterday. We again forced a vote to suspend the gas tax, beginning the day with a press conference at Stop & Shop Gasoline. You can see my remarks here. When we made the motion at the start of the Assembly Floor Session (which lasted ten hours), the…
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Review of “2000 Mules”
Opinion and Commentary By Donna Westfall – May 26, 2022 If you read reviews around the country, you’ll pick up that audiences have been packed in some locations. Not so in Crescent City. There were four of us at the 7:10pm Tuesday night, May 25 showing at Crescent City Cinema. Being frugal, I learned that…
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VICTORY FOR FREE SPEECH!
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert – May 25, 2022 I secured a win for free speech by working to stop the Disinformation Governance Board. As a result of my pressure campaign in Congress by introducing the Protecting Free Speech Act with 75 cosponsors and leading a press conference with House leadership, the Biden administration announced that Nina Jankowicz resigned and the…
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Let Me Live
By Vickey Stamps – May 24, 2022 Here I am, floating around in a moist dark area, a tiny polywog of a shape short weeks ago. Now I wait to become an infant (or am I to become one?) Vibrations of voices fill my ears with reflected thoughts from my mother. I hear such words…
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Leverage Points
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – May 24, 2022 In response to my announcement on this Wednesday’s gas tax vote, one of the nation’s top political reporters commented: “Calif. Republicans may be in the minority but they are leveraging this gas-tax issue pretty effectively.” When I ran for the Assembly I was asked, “How can you ever do…
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CLEAN SWEEP CRESCENT CITY
By Donna Westfall – May 24, 2022 It’s that time of year when one of the perks of living in the city comes true. You get to put out grass, leaves, limbs and brush this coming next and it will all be picked up at NO CHARGE, as in FREE. Here are the parameters: TUESDAY,…