Author: Samuel Strait
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Do we need to start organizing MILITIA’S?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 28, 2021 – Picture credit to Soundcloud.com The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America is as clear in its meaning now as it was when it became the law of the land. It reads as follows: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary…
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Leadership, Oh Leadership where art thou gone?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 27, 2021 t should strike the residents of this County after sixty years and alaundry list of Supervisors and City Councilors gone before, exactlywhy we are forced to continue with the travesty that continues onHighway 101 at Last Chance Grade? After CalTrans will have spent, nodoubt, yet…
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Unemployment and Del Norte County
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 22, 2021 – Graphic Credit to Statista Over the past year much of the news concerned the state of the currentpandemic and our reaction to it. It is well documented that our economysuffered a significant blow as well and unemployment sky rocketed tounimaginative heights. In April of…
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Last Chance Grade has not fallen into the ocean, yet.
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 19, 2021 Unless someone has blown out your pilot light, most folks in the Countyare aware of the fact that Last Chance Grade has had yet another slideblocking the traffic North and South. Due to some rather heavy rains,it should have come as no surprise, yet it…
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Contour Air in the News
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 18, 2021 Let’s be clear about our airport and commercial air service, ContourAir, Crescent City to Oakland and return. Without a pretty heftysubsidy, Four million plus dollars, commercial air service to any whereout of Crescent City would be economically unfeasible. Any thing lessthan 15,000 to 20,000 passengers…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #2
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 17, 2021 As I was writing the past couple of articles regarding our woeful publicschools, it occurred to me, with some prompting, that most people inthis community have no idea exactly how the school district’s currentbudget nearly fifty million dollars is being spent. If statistics areany measure,…
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Covid-19 Mandates: Enough is Enough!
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 16, 2021 A recent comment in Linda Sutter’s piece on local restaurants in theCrescent City Times, triggered the same feeling that I have carriedaround since last Spring. After the barrage of media coverage of howdeadly this pandemic was going to be, before any real research had beendone, it…
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With 57% proficiency in reading, and 27% proficiency in math. Do teachers deserve a pay increase or a pay decrease?
BY Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 14, 2021 It looks like right on cue we have the annual curbside gathering of theDel Norte Teacher’s Association along Highway 101 at the fairgroundsprotesting about how little pay and benefits that they receive. Granted, last year’s whine was cut short by the pandemic, but sureenough almost before…
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With Biden at the helm, you didn’t really think prices were going down, did you?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 11, 2021 I don’t know how many Americans have noticed, but already there is aslow creep upward of many things in our local grocery stores, as well asthe price of gasoline and diesel at the pump. Against all warnings thatthis would be the case should the current…
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Climate Change, White House Hysteria & Dr. Judith Curry
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 10, 2021 It has been awhile since “Climate Change” has occupied much in the wayof the current hysteria that resides in White House. It is almost as ifcommon sense and critical thinking have left that building. But what isnew about that. With the stroke of his pen,…