Author: nick
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ATTENTION SEWER RATE PAYERS
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: STOP THE MADNESS! Do you believe the City wants to LOWER your sewer bill? Take a stand with the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association. Log your protest vote since, as we know, when the people who want to increase our rates are also the vote counters, not all votes get counted.…
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Board of Sups Needs to Enter Sewer Rate Debate
Opinion Piece By David Markel – January 3, 2016 – We live in the Bertsch Track. In the 70’s, sewer and water lines were installed thought out this District and then the Bertsch Ocean View Community Services District was born. This District was formed by the Board of Supervisors of the Del Norte County on May 25,…
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Sewer Rate Protests – I Remember When
By Katherine Kelly – January 3, 2016 – I remember when: During the very first proposed sewer rate increase, you know, the one that was meant to pay for a newly expanded too-expensive sewer, I was at a council meeting when I heard Ward Stover, or was it Jim Barnts, maybe even Eric Weir, state…
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Sewer Rate Protest Begins
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – JANUARY 1, 2016 – NOTE: 1 protest per property! If you own 10 properties, that’s 10 protests. I received the PROPOSED INCREASE IN SEWER SERVICE RATES from Crescent City, City Hall. I plan to protest. I have until February 16, 2016 to hand in my protest. I’m going to…
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WHAT IS THE DEL NORTE HEALTHCARE DISTRICT AND HOW CAN YOU HELP IMPROVE LOCAL HEALTHCARE?
by Roxie Hazard, Certified Radiologic Technologist – December 30, 2015 – Here is a brief history on California’s Healthcare Districts, and why our local Healthcare District is so important to our community: In order to address healthcare shortages in rural areas, the California legislature approved the formation of local Hospital Districts, now called “Healthcare Districts.”…
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The City’s Pot Ban
Opinion piece By Katherine K. Kelly I rarely agree with Councilwoman Murray, but in reading the article about the City’s proposed ban on marijuana, she is right on the money. The ban paints marijuana usage with too broad a brush. Fears of large growing operations should not impede a medical marijuana user from having access…
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Does Martha McClure need a time out?
By A Phillips – December 29, 2015 – It appears Supervisor Martha McClure has been a bad girl in her appointment to the Del Norte County Solid Waste Authority (DNSWMA). On December 28, 2015, the Crescent City/Del Norte County Taxpayers Association served a Formal Complaint on the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors against Supervisor…
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BlackHawk Pistol Story – Part 7 – Watch the Video
By Donna Westfall DISCLAIMER ABOUT THE VIDEO YOU ARE ABOUT TO WATCH OF THE SWAT-style raid on Dave Egan August 18, 2011 To the viewers of this video. Before watching this video, please read and be aware of the following: Per Del Norte County Auditor/Controller, Clinton Schaad, $13,821.28 has been spent on 43 cameras for the…
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America’s First Christmas – 1776
Credit to JASON W. STEVENS in The Federalist Papers Project – After a series of devastating military defeats, and amid plunging morale among the beleaguered and ill-equipped Continental Army, the American Revolution seemed all but over by December 1776. General William Howe, Commander-in-Chief of all British forces in America, had easily taken New York City and looked…
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Beware of newly formed, “The American Fluoridation Society”
Anti fluoridationists were tipped off to the creation of “The American Fluoridation Society.” It was discovered that it was incorporated in Portland just a few months ago. It’s a 501c(4), which apparently means that access to who is funding this is limited. The three incorporators were Kurt Ferre, Chuck Haynie (aka Billy Budd) and Johnny Johnson.…