Author: Samuel Strait
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The 5-0 Club Without Chair Wilson To Hold A Few Hands
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – June 12, 2024 The Board of Supervisors met last Tuesday, May 28th, without the “strong and strategic” leadership of Chairman of the Board, Dean Wilson and it went downhill from there. While “silent” Vice Chair, Joey Borges,broke out his voice for the session, not much wisdom was in…
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The 5-0 Club Fails, But What Is New!
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – May 26, 2024 The local Republicans may as well join the Democratic Party for all themarginal differences that currently exist. The local version ofRepublicans tore the band aide off at the most recent Board ofSupervisor’s (BOS) meeting by being “all for Big Government and HigherTaxes”. The only odd…
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On The Road Again, The Final Days
By Samuel Strait – May 17, 2023 When I stepped off the plane from Nuie, I could tell that fall weatherhad come to New Zealand. A bit over a week to see some of North Islandbefore returning home. The first night was spent barely thirty milessouth of Auckland at Pokeno, yet Auckland sprawl had already…
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The 5-0 Club, And No, I Didn’t Forget
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – May 14, 2024 As it was, I was basking in the warmth of the South Pacific when the latesttrain wreck, optimistically referred to as the April 23, 2024 meeting ofthe Del Norte County Board of Supervisors, where even in Niue I able towatch the fumble and stumble of…
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On The Road Again, Niue Part Two
By Samuel Strait – April 29, 2024 On my last night in Niue, I find myself in a repeating pattern over the last two weeks, up to see the sun rise on the eastern side of the island, a bit of a swim in one of the isolated tide pools or over at Limu before…
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The 5-0 Club, Oh! What A Mess
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – April 18, 2024 Currently spending time in a Country where the focus is on doing the most with the least for the largest portion of its citizens, it is not hard to figure out just where our local government goes off the tracks so much of the time. …
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On The Road Niue
By Samuel Strait – April 16, 2024 Looking out of an airplane window at 36,000 feet, Niue does not appear to be much more than a tiny green dot in the middle of nowhere. Even closer as we prepare to land, the dot doesn’t get much bigger. It certainly brings home the sheer isolation of…
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On the road again, Auckland
By Samuel Strait – April 14, 2024 Having been on the island of Nuie for nearly two weeks, it would be remiss of me not to relate how I got here. After thirty some hours of flying, and waiting for connecting flights, I found myself in Auckland, New Zealand. Auckland is New Zealand’s largest city…
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The 5-0Club March 26th
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – April 6, 2024 What do you expect, I’m on vacation and am also on “Island Time”. It is hard to sit still to catch up with the local brain trust when it is 85 degrees and blue skies outside every day. More on that later. Just before I…
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King Inscore And The B Team
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – March 23, 2024 I suppose the Crescent City Council meeting of March 18th was some what ground breaking, yet not unexpected. Our representative republic was for a moment converted into a monarchy compliments of the Mayor of Crescent City, Blake Inscore. More on that later. To begin the…