Author: Samuel Strait
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Horrors! Dissension In The Ranks, The 5-0 Club Meets Again
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 29, 2922 I have to say it. I didn’t see that one coming, not that it changedmuch of anything in the continued dysfunction of our local Board ofSupervisors. At long last a dissenting vote and on the County budget noless. After reviewing the September 27th meeting of the…
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Measure “S”, The City’s Wants Before Taking Care Of Its Needs
Commentary By Samuel Strait – September 23, 2022 It is pretty normal for the City Fathers to look after their “wants”before taking care of the City’s “needs”. Nothing like posturing beforethe voting public to inflate one’s head even larger than some on theCity’s Council are already carrying above their shoulders. It is akinto wishing for…
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Measure “R” Will Come Back To Bite You
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 21, 2022 There is an old saying, that “if you depend on the government to solveall your problems, at some point it will come back to bite you.” So itis with the County’s Measure “R” sales tax increase of one percent,where local residents have been asked to pony up…
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The 5-0 Club, Or Rather The Robots Meet Again
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 16, 2022 It has almost become a carefully orchestrated performance when theCounty’s leadership meets every other Tuesday at 10:00 am. So carefullychoreographed and artificial that one wonders who, exactly is runningthe show. As much as there was expressed dissension in the ranks bySupervisor Starkey and Masten, when it came…
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And The Gaslighting Continues
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 13, 2022 One would think after years of declining service and an ever growinggovernment that local voters would tire of promises made and not kept. At some point they would grow weary of the excuses every time money isreceived and squandered on things that make little difference to thosethat government…
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Yakushev And Mesa
By Samuel Strait – September 12, 2022 On Sunday afternoon nearly 200 local citizens crowded the newlyrefurbished auditorium at Crescent Elk to listen to an exceptionalperformance of classical music from cellist Thomas Mesa and pianist IlyaYakushev. Ranging from Beethoven to Rachmaninoff this scintillating duokept the audience focused on the performance unfolding before them fornearly two…
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The Crash And Burn Of Green Energy
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 7, 2022 One is supposed to think that government policies are for the benefit ofall that are governed by those policies, but as we have seen lately thatclearly hasn’t been the case for “Green Energy”. With massive failuresin European Countries exposed in those countries by recent worlddevelopments of the…
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Mandates, Are We Tired Of Them Yet?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 2, 2022 As I have been out and about lately, and witnessed first hand that atleast in some parts of California, many people still are of the mindsetthat masking makes some sort of difference in protecting one’s personalhealth from a virus. No doubt, the government, public health and…
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The City’s “NEW” Out Door Swimming Pool
Commentary by Samuel Strait – August 31, 2022 Two of the most void of “Common Sense” on the City Counsel, Mayor ThomasGreenough and Blake Inscore were vibrating with suppressed excitementover the recent reception of a $3 million Grant for the purpose ofconstructing another useless edifice in Beach Front Park, most notablyan out door amphitheater. Of…
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Tales Of A Crescent City Signature Gatherer
Commentary by Samuel Strait – August 30, 2022 It is not often that the powers to be in my life let me loose tointeract with the public, let alone for several days in a row. Such asit is, I have been perched for several hours over the course of the lastseveral days in front of…