Author: nick
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Save the Smith River
Credit to Adam Spencer – November 14, 2016 – In light of this week’s election, there’s nothing more timely and critical than protecting the North Fork Smith from strip mining. With the Trump Presidency and a Republican Congress it makes it even more important that we secure what protection we can under the current Administration. The proposed…
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6th California County bans GMO Crops
By Donna Westfall – November 14, 2016 – On November 8th, Sonoma County became the sixth California county to ban GMOs by a 54.1% vote, joining Santa Cruz, Mendocino, Humboldt, Trinity and Marin. The ban’s passage creates a 13,734-square-mile zone where genetically engineered plants cannot be grown, the largest such area in the United States. Genetically modified…
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58% of children now have fluorosis
Submitted by New York State Opposed to Fluoridation (NYCOF) – November 14, 2016 – The CDC says that 41% of adolescents have dental fluorosis based on 1999-2004 the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES). However, data from 2011-2012 NHANES fluorosis rates was collected but never reported by any government entity as far as I know. But,…
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The Wells Fargo Bank Scandal
By Donna Westfall – November 13, 2016 – Henry Wells and William Fargo founded Wells Fargo Bank in 1852. The company is 164 years old and based in San Francisco. The founders are probably turning over in their graves right about now. In July 2015, it became the world largest bank, but by September 2016,…
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Veterans Day Parade and more
Come out and honor our veterans. Parade starts this morning, Friday, November 11th, at 10 am at Veterans Hall located at 810 H Street, Crescent City, California. The annual parade goes down to Front Street. Lunch follows at noon. Free services and discounts for Veterans: Little Caesars: Veterans can get a free Crazy $5 Hot-n-Ready…
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Triplicate reaps what it sows
By Donna Westfall – November 10, 2016 – It looks like the Triplicate is going down hill fast and losing subscribers by more than just a handful. The latest one is newly re-elected Del Norte County Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin. In his letter to the Triplicate, he detailed the reason he is leaving the Triplicate.…
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DA’s Office Responds to Passage Prop. 57
Del Norte County District Attorney While it looks like Del Norte County narrowly said No to Prop. 57, it overwhelmingly passed statewide. The very people we work hard every day to protect and keep safe by keeping violent career criminals off the streets of California have just made our jobs much more difficult. We will…
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TALK TO US
By Bob Berkowitz – November 9, 2016 – When Roger Gitlin was re-elected to the board and I was first elected to be your representative on the board of supervisors, (November 8, 2016) I said there were going to be some changes. Here is the first change we are going to make and it starts…
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Post election thoughts about the news media
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 9, 2016 – I think that I was a bit skeptical, when last week my youngest son assured me that Donald Trump would win the election for President by a fairly healthy electoral margin. As a reasonably tuned in reader of a fairly broad range of electronic, TV,…
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS
Thanks to all that ran and congratulations to those that won: Roger Gitlin, Supervisor 1st District on his re-election with 53.7% of the vote. Bob Berkowitz, Supervisor 5th District on his election with 51.87% of the vote. Roger Daley, Del Norte Unified School Board – 44.08%. Heidi Kime, Jason Greenough and Alex Fallman the newly…