Author: Samuel Strait
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To Swim Or Not To Swim, That Is The $400,000 Question?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 29, 2021 A recently passed 14% increase on local sales tax was passed by theCity’s voters by a significant margin in which most of the County’svoters had little to say about it and will no doubt be expected to reachin their pockets as well. By a much…
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Fraud, Or Just Plain Incompetence?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 29, 2021 Most people who genuinely care, will have received the news that therecent recount of the Fire Protection District’s effort for a parcel taxwhich initially failed has been reversed by once again the narrowest ofmargins. This has produced the historical conundrum of a nearly equalsplit in…
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Ratepayers/Taxpayers 2-Gang Of Four/Kamome Foundation 0
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 29, 2021 It is a rare occasion when the grifters in this community come out onthe losing end of things and the Taxpayer/Ratepayers actually get abreak from the near constant reach into their collective pockets byvarious members of our bureaucratic class. It probably won’t be longbefore our…
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From The Mouths Of The BOS, No Joy
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 24, 2021 If you happen to live south of Last Chance Grade, the road closures area big problem. If you are a visitor wishing to experience our stretchof the North Coast, you might be thinking of giving it a pass thisyear. If you think that the Del…
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Brilliance In Our State’s Government Abounds
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 22, 2021 It is not often that our State’s Governor, Gavin Newsom, nor the State’sLegislators can come together and draft legislation that is so clearlycounter to what it is meant to achieve that which even the mostintellectually challenged person will find it somewhat mystifying. Recently our slick back…
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The Genius Brigade At Work By Local School District Admin
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 22, 2021 It is amazing at times when the planning for educational spending forthe up coming fall and into the future takes on the appearance ofeverything but educational in nature. We have already been regaled with“new” scheduling for the fall in the form of recycled ninety minuteblocks…
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Let’s See, How Many Times Can The High School Schedule Be Unveiled as “New
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 20, 2021 For many of us, the path to success was, notice the verb is “Was”, agood education. While the current Del Norte High Principal, AlisonEckart, points to the past eighteen months of COVID-19 disaster as thereason for the high school’s dismal performance, perhaps she must beunaware…
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Proposition 218, Fairness, And The Proposed Fire Assessment By CFPD
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 18, 2021 It has long been the preeminent premise in this Country that equalityand fairness be at the heart of any public vote taken no matter what theissue or who the candidate. Early in the history of this Country one ofthe dominant features of government excess which…
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So You Think Things Will Return To Normal On Tuesday, Fat Chance!
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 15, 2021 As expected, our slick backed haired empty suit, Governor Gavin Newsomhas clarified what to him “getting back to normal really means”. Mostfolks would assume normal means just that, but not so for Newsom. InMonday’s presser, Newsom made it very clear what normal means for him,it…
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Cannabis Heaven Soon To Be Subsidized
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 15, 2021 It would appear since the voters of California, in their collectivewisdom, authorized the use, growth, manufacture and distribution ofCannabis through out the Golden State in 2016 all is not well in theindustry. Looks like regulation has reared its ugly head in full forceto make the…