Author: Samuel Strait
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On The Road Again Day One Plus Day Two
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 19, 2022 It has been nearly a year now since I’ve had the opportunity to take an extended trip in this Country without the constant nagging from members of the Church of Covid Hysteria. Great to be on the byways and highways of rural America, for a thirty day…
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The Final Lap
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 17, 2022 With a bit more than three weeks before the November 8th mid termelection, candidates and various measures on the ballot are making theirfinal pitch to the public in order to garner the necessary votes to besuccessful. Mailboxes stuffed with flyers, candidate forums, debates,and all the typical political…
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Music In The Redwoods
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – October 15, 2022 Most impressive is all I can say. Music in the Redwood had its secondstellar performance by pianist Pauline Yang, who for nearly two hourskept a near packed house on the edge of their seats listening to a broadarray of classical favorites. Bach, Scarlatti, Mendelssohn,…
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Has Roger Gitlin been duped by the City’s Use of Measure S?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 16, 2022 As much as I respect the opinions of Roger Gitlin in his weekly columnin the Triplicate, he is after all entitled to them, I respectfullydisagree with his latest effort, Eye on Del Norte, “Don’t let some ofthe letters of the alphabet confuse you”. Within the article is…
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Did You Ever Wonder?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – October 14, 2022 After seeing the recent sample ballot for the upcoming Novemberelection, one has to wonder just who is responsible for the descriptionsfound on the ballot for the various Propositions and Measures. Is it anunbiased third party, particularly when who ever writes the ballotmeasures and propositions…
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The 5-0 Club Returns…Whew!
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 12, 2022 We most definitely would not want our local Board of Supervisor’s to go“too” far off of the track; hence, it was with great relief that I amreporting that during the most recent Board Meeting a return to thenorm, 5-0 in the affirmative, how comforting. It is not…
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Bought Gas Or Groceries Lately? Still Think Measures S And R Are A Good Idea?
By Samuel Strait – October 10, 2020 Most of those that think that a growing local government is a “goodthing” remain unmoved by the rate of inflation that this Country isexperiencing. 8.3% was I believe the last figure being reported. Thathardly represents the true nature of the matter when energy and foodremain outside of that…
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To All Those That Continue To Think That Voting NO On Measures T And U In November Is The Right Thing To Do
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 9, 2022 Recently I had the opportunity to talk with a couple of NO on T and Uvoters who spoke about supporting the sales tax increase levied byCounty and City governments. The general impression I gained fromthose conversations is that both governments have worked overtime incasting a picture…
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Challenging The Status Quo Is Fine, If It Actually Happens
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 8, 2022 In a recent opinion piece in the Triplicate by Kevin Hendrick, “It’sOkay to challenge the status quo”, once again Mr. Hendrick fails tounderstand the dynamics of what actually happens at local Board ofSupervisor meetings. Sad to say his “Progressive” politics which sooften leads him astray was on…
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“Abuse Of Democracy?” What Country Do You Live In Mr. Hendrick?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 6, 2022 It is not often one exposes true ignorance in the local paper, yet Mr.Kevin Hendrick, Chairman of the local Democrat Party, has outdonehimself in his latest opinion “An Abuse of Democracy” piece found in theweekly Triplicate. I am not quite sure what the editor of theTriplicate was…