Author: Samuel Strait
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Return students to schools already
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 18, 2021 Recently the Del Norte Unified School District’s Superintendent, JeffHarris, offered his report to the District’s School Board withfrustrations over the lack of consistent messaging from the Stateregarding policy towards opening schools and getting back to educatingour youth. Part of his complaint is with policies which…
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Covid in the News, Isn’t it Always
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 14, 2021 As I was wading through the process of doing my taxes for the year, yes,I still do them not a tax preparer, I had Sunday’s CBS station tuned tocollege basketball and before I knew it the game had ended and “SixtyMinutes” was being aired. Ordinarily,…
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Response to recent questions
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 10, 2021 As most know who read the pages of the Crescent City Times, I am aregular contributor on a great variety of topics, one of which sparked acomment with a series of questions included. Normally I would elect torespond to those questions with a comment of…
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Has the Board of Supervisors made yet another costly mistake? Part 3 from Eye on Del Norte
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 10, 2021 Has the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors made yet another verycostly mistake? Over the past couple of months, Eye on Del Norte hasmade looking into the way the County goes about planning and acquiringfuture needs for office space. The process normally begins withnotifications being…
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What Rikuzentakata, Again?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 It has been a while since Rikuzentakata, Japan was news worthy in the local area, so when it was recently a topic of conversation, the first thingthat came to mind is that Chris Howard and Blake Inscore must be homesick for a bit of international…
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Where have 500 students gone?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 Money, Money, Money, what will we do without Money” seems to be what’s on the minds of the local School District, not on the failure of thelocal district to educate it’s charges. In the 2019-2020 school yearthe district’s enrollment stood at 3,981 students in all…
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Del Norte County, Odd Man Out
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 5, 2021 Just recently having viewed the map of all the counties in Californiathat were on board with the Jefferson State movement and those that arewithin Oregon who are involved with the Greater Idaho movement, itstruck me that the island of resistance to both movements was on…
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Adults behaving like ten year olds in Del Norte County
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 3, 2021 When I came to this area as a permanent resident now forty eight yearsago, I would have never guessed that what I experienced in my local bank yesterday was even a remote possibility. Then again I have alwaysassumed that most adults would at least attempt…
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Democrats worst nightmare – losing control
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 2, 2021 As the more obvious aspects of cultural and societal differences haveemerged in the past twenty years or so, there are multiple states,mostly blue, that have rural parts of their states clamoring forseparation. As urban populations have become more needy for government control, smaller rural populations…
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Did you ever wonder…?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 1, 2021 Did you ever wonder after this past year why nearly everyone that dieshas to have been from Covid-19? Did you ever wonder why no one succumbs to heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, pneumonia, the common flu, or any of the other previously common causes of…