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By Donna Westfall – April 12, 2017 – On September 30, 2016, three board members of the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association had their first private meeting with City Manager, David Vandermark, and after 10 minutes were ready to walk. From accusing the President of the tax association of “snarling” at him to making…

Denying free speech, the very essence of Democracy

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[fvplayer src=”http://www.crescentcitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/handbrake-compression.mp4″ width=”624″ height=”480″] Snippets from the March 28, 2017 Board of Supervisors meeting. Not only did they (Chairman Howard and Supervisor Hemmingsen) deny free speech to two people from the public, but CAO Jay Sarina also admitted that the prior action of the previous board meeting to vote Lori Cowan in as an…

Del Norte County not the only one grappling with 1st Amendment rights

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By Guest Columnist Michael Ceremello – April 12, 2017 – Solano Judge Throws Out Independent Voice Lawsuit Independent Voice (IV) Publisher Dave Scholl received a major setback in his effort to expose the city council’s illegal and unethical bid rigging and sole source contract design to eliminate the IV from competing for the city’s legal…

For Eileen Cooper and Joe Gillespie (And everybody else as well)

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in Letters to the Editor

Eileen is from New York and chose to live in California. She also chose to spend her life time with caring people, activists and intellectuals instead of seeking refuge in religious institutions. She chose to help groups who help the environment, the birds and planet Earth instead of hiding behind a belief nor promoting a…

The Chicken Little Syndrome

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Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – April 12, 2017 – Something at the local level that one would think citizens, Democrats in particular, would at least try to avoid, or rather make a greater effort to appear somewhat more tolerant, but that is clearly not the case. As we have seen Nationally, Progressive Democrats have…

Congressman Huffman’s Town Hall Meeting

Apr 11, 2017

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By Jaime Yarbrough- April 10, 2017 – The Cresent Elk Middle School Auditorium was the location of a town hall meeeting being hosted by Congessman Jared Huffman (http://huffman.house.gov/). The auditorium quickly filled to 3/4 capacity with concerned Del Norters eager to ask questions and have their concerns addressed. With no preamble Huffman addessed the audience…

Congressman Huffman Announces Student Art Competition

Apr 9, 2017

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Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) announced this week that the 2017 Congressional Art Competition is open to all high school students in California’s Second Congressional District, which spans from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. The annual art contest is held by the U.S. Congress for high school students across the country.…

US Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court utilizing the “Nuclear option”

Apr 7, 2017

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Credit to Sen. Lindsey Graham – April 7, 2017 – With 55 Yea’s, and 45 Nay’s, Neil Gorsuch will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court and is scheduled to be sworn in Monday. This week the Democrats launched the first partisan filibuster against a Supreme Court nominee in American history. Sen. Graham…

Suggested letter to send those bozo’s wanting to increase the gas tax & DMV fees

Apr 7, 2017

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