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Why you couldn’t watch SuperBowl on Charter
By Jamie Yarbrough – February 5, 2018 – This is my 9:59 am email today’s date to the CEO of Northwest Broadcasting: “I’ll make this simple. Greed sucks. No one is experiencing any kind of hardship because you aren’t getting enough money. Just as automation is going to be taking millions of jobs the answer…
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Canadian HEMP market nearing $1billion/year
By Donna Westfal – February 5. 2018 – Hemp can be grown as a fiber, seed or dual crop. Just research the Canadian market and compare it to the American market where Hemp has been banned for almost 80 years. But it looks like the U.S. hemp industry is on it’s way back due to…
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The turmoil of commercial cannabis grows
By Donna Westfall – February 2, 2018 – Let’s take a look at Calaveras County. Few places have had more mood swings over marijuana than Calaveras County. According to an article in the Sacramento Bee by Brad Branan last month, “First, they embraced it. Then, they considered banning it. Now, they’re going to have harsher regulations…
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Republican Women Meet
By Donna Westfall – February 1, 2018 – Normally, the first Thursday of the month is generally reserved from 11:30 am to 1 pm in the back room at Apple Peddler restaurant for the Republican Women’s group. However, next month, March 1st, the meeting will be held in the evening at Lighthouse Inn starting at…
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Just A Few Thoughts For You
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – January 31, 2018 – An interesting component of the discussion on illegal immigration is the perspective that Democrats truly don’t want to solve the issue as it takes away a key platform point for future elections. How can you say Republicans are racist when they actually are allowing double…
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Word of the day – entomophagy
By Donna Westfall – January 31, 2018 – Credit to Vanity Fair/Secret Talent Theatre – While walking on the treadmill chatting with Jaime Yarbrough, notorious for eating insects; he mentioned a video on youtube.com of actress, Nicole Kidman. I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. Nicole Kidman is eating…
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Paul goes solar: Part 1 of 3
By Donna Westfall – January 31, 2018 In Part 1, we’ll talk about what led up to Paul Senyszyn’s solar power installation. In Part 2, we’ll talk about the installation process. Finally, in Part 3, we’ll talk about how the finances worked out, and details around the performance of the system after its been in service…
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Part 3: The Fix Is In
By Donna Westfall – January 29, 2018 In the January 9th Board of Supervisors meeting, people of the public got up to address our dysfunctional board. Everyone that spoke to the issue of electing a chairman, referred to wanting Roger Gitlin as the next in line to serve as Chairman. Instead, Chair Howard was elected…
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Point Of Honor – End in Sight
By Donna Westfall – January 29, 2018 – At noon today on the “S” curve, it was cloudy with intermittent sunshine. Not quite warm enough for shirt sleeves, but not so cold as to need a heavy jacket. Yet in terms of taking pictures in front of the Point of Honor sign, difficult because of…
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Mutant gene P53
By Donna Westfall – January 29, 2018 – There’s a mutant gene linked to tumor growth as in cancer. It’s called P53 or Quercetin. If you’re looking for natural methods of combating cancer growth, foods high in quercetin (including onions, capers, blackberries, raspberries, black and green tea, dark cherries, cocoa powder, kale, apples, and herbs like…