Author: Samuel Strait
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Let The Whining Commence
Commentary By Samuel Strait – June 24, 2022 At this past Crescent City Council meeting, the agony of the possibilitythat the City’s “slush fund” may be in jeopardy in the upcoming Novemberelection has the council in a spending frenzy. $2,352,112.00 to be onthe books to be spent on “police, fire, road repair, and the swimmingpool”. …
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Representation Dies In Del County
Commentary By Samuel Strait – June 23, 2022 I would love to be writing about my latest trip out of Del Norte County,which included a few days in the “dumpster fire” formerly one of themost picturesque cities in the Northwest, Portland, Oregon, and on to afew more days in the breath taking beauty of Olympic…
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GATHERING SIGNATURES
Commentary by Samuel Strait – June 9, 2022 For the past several days, I have been out and about collectingsignatures in order to put Measure “R” to the test in November. It hasbeen most entertaining and a very good time was had in a kaleidoscope ofpeople from places far and wide. While the intent was…
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Covid-19 and Masking Hazards
Commentary by Samuel Strait – June 6, 2022 Personally, I don’t know how many studies on the effectiveness, orrather lack of effectiveness of masking, need to be conducted before itis universally accepted that masking serves no purpose as a mechanismfor preventing Covid-19 infection. Nor does it prevent transmission toothers. The most recent study conducted here…
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Garrett Scott, A Man On A Mission
Commentary by Samuel Strait – June 4, 2022 You can’t help but respect the man. Who you might say? Del NorteCounty has a new man at the helm in the Del Norte County SheriffDepartment, Sheriff Garrett Scott. In a brief but telling conversationon a street corner in Crescent City during Friday’s Street Fair put onby…
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Big Trouble in Blue States
Commentary by Samuel Strait – June 3, 2022 With the mass exodus of people fleeing “blue states” such as New York,California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New Jersey, somethingunexpected, not really, is happening. When these state governments went “all in” on the progressive line of insanity, certain consequenceshave a nasty habit of coming back with devastating effect. States…
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A Billion Dollars Here, A Billion Dollars There
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – June 1, 2022 Our State’s Governor, Gavin Newsom has come down with a dreaded disease,something akin to that which afflicts the Biden Administration at theFederal level. Its called “spend money like there is no tomorrow”. Notthat it appears to trouble either “leader”, rapidly rising inflation isone of…
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Lord Stutz Appears As If By Magic
Commentary by Samuel Strait – May 30, 2022 Not that anyone even cares what our local Public Health Officer, AaronStutz has to say these days, it is important to note that he is stillalive and drawing his nice six figure salary from Del Norte County. Breath a deep sigh of relief that he isn’t “Covid death”…
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Hung Out To Dry, And They Don’t Even Know It
The Education of Mr. David Jones, Chair of the Measure “R” CitizensOversight Committee by Samuel Strait – May 30, 2022 After reading the article by Linda Sutter, CCTimes, “Measure “R”Committee’s Secret Meetings”, I couldn’t resist taking a look at thevideo version of the local Citizen’s Oversight Committee meeting thispast Tuesday, May 24th. Yes, folks, it…
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The 5-0 Club Redux
Commentary by Samuel Strait – May 28, 2022 One would think that our Board of Supervisors would at least show alittle sign of life at public meetings, but, no, that would likelyinvolve too much effort on their part. Seems as though the CountyBureaucracy could insert a “resolution” that would allow all employeeswho wear red on…