Author: Samuel Strait
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The Recall Is Now Over, Now What?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – September 16, 2021 The recall is over and done with, may it rest in peace. While I’m surethere will be calls of fraud and malfeasance, it is nice to be able tostep back and see where all the pieces have fallen. Many on the “No”side think that they have…
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The Tea Party Rides Again?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 15, 2021 While most of the County remains locked in Recall fever, and sundryother life altering events, Sunday, September 12th, marked the effort byour former Sheriff Dean Wilson to resurrect the County’s version of alocal Tea Party. With a roused up fifty plus of Del Norte’s finest,…
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Huddled In Fear Over Covid
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 14, 2021 It seems many in this County remain huddled in fear of the Covidnightmare. Lashing out at those that refuse to be cowered by the virus,and to vaccinate. Paralyzed by reports from the legacy media ofimpending doom. Rendered frozen, immobile to the imagined end of humanexistence…
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Covid Numbers, And Places To Avoid
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 7, 2021 Amidst all the local hand wringing and Covid hysteria reported prior tothe Labor Day weekend, there was a bit of a silver lining that revealeditself amongst all the reported numbers of doom and gloom as well asthose not being reported. it seems that aside from…
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Labor Day, A Holiday, Really?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 4, 2021 In a last gasp effort to capture the spirit of a fast fading summervacation, millions of people celebrate the gatekeeper holiday, LaborDay, before the all too soon crisp cool days of Autumn send us towardsanother even cooler winter. It is normally a time for that…
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Natural Disasters, What’s Climate Change Got To Do With It?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 3, 2021 – Picture credit to NOAA/EPA After listening to our “empty suit”, governor, Gavin Newsom, parrot“wildfires in California are the result of Climate Change”, it will nodoubt come as NO surprise when Hurricane Ida completes her tour of theSoutheast and on up into New Jersey and…
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Has The DNUSD Really Lost 500 More Students?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter At Large – September 2, 2021 For a couple of weeks now we’ve been asked by the Del Norte UnifiedSchool District to prepare for in-school learning. During the course ofthe the previous local school year the disaster became evident to eventhe most ardent supporters of on-line-learning that it was failingmiserably to…
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Is It Okay?
Bu Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 29, 2021 Recently, both locally and throughout the State there has been aclamoring for the various governments, State, Municipal, and local toonce again establish mandates coercing California citizens to mask up,social distance, return to your prison cells, and close down theeconomy. The rational being broadcast is that…
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Fire, Fire, Every Where, And No Relief In Sight
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 27, 2021 California encompasses over one hundred million acres of land surface. It is one of the largest States in this Country. Currently just over oneand a half million acres and growing have gone up in smoke and flame. While this has been typical for several years now, it…
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Planes, Trains, And Other Things
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 25, 2021 Looks like the “Dashboard Of Doom” is living up to its reputation byreporting several more deaths in the community from the Delta Variant. Of course nobody mentions the fact that in Del Norte County you are morelikely to die of just about anything else except Melanoma…