Author: Samuel Strait
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PART 2: Term Limits
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 7, 2021 The following is the second part of a two part series on federal termlimits. As explained in the first part in order to impose term limitson members of Congress it is necessary to amend the US Constitution,which is not an easy process. On the legislative…
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PART 1: Term Limits
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 7, 2021 It seems when ever a segment of the population becomes dissatisfied withtheir representatives at the federal level, be it of their own or othercongressmen and senators, there is a renewed call for term limits. Thisis nothing new, as it has been a remedy proposed nearly…
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It’s all in the numbers
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 6, 2021 Numbers, numbers, who has the correct numbers? I say this because I saw a recent announcement by the Biden administration that 200,000,000 doses of the Covid vaccine were ordered along with the 400,000,000 dosesalready on order. The thinking by the president is that with300,000,000 people…
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1 Million Jobs Making Electric Vehicles. Pie in the Sky
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – January 4, 2021 It would be a dream come true if the current president could magicallycreate 1,000,000 jobs out of thin air in the immediate future bymanufacturing electric cars. I have been reading all day about the newBiden claim that this has become a priority for his administration…
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DO AWAY WITH ALL PRODUCTION OF FOSSIL FUELS? ARE YOU CRAZY?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 3, 2021 When you are trying to save the world from the blight of fossil fuels,just how many people stop and examine just how bound up by petroleum we are in our daily lives. When someone starts spouting the nonsense that we should do away with all…
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Stimulus Checks: Whether you want then or not will effect you, short term or in the end.
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 2, 2021 I have been asked the question, “Can the stimulus check be rejected?” People who think this way want to be thought of as personallyresponsible folks, because they have sufficient income to live, and itis a way for those people to say, “I’m better off than you…
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School District Wasting Money for a Change?
By Samuel Stait, Reporter at Large – February 2, 2021 It was recently reported that the Del Norte Unified School District wasto order two new seventy two passenger electric powered school buses toadd to its current fleet of diesel powered buses. The cost in total forthe two buses, just under a million dollars of previously…
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Who cares about Cancel Culture?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 1, 2021 According to Dictionary.com, “Cancel Culture refers to the popularpractice of withdrawing support for (canceling) public figures andcompanies after they have done or said something consideredobjectionable or offensive. [It’s} generally discussed as beingperformed on social media in the form of group shaming.” What a tidy little…
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Is Reporter Jessica Cejnar doing a disservice to her profession?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 31, 2021 A recent article by none other than Jessica Cejnar in the Lost CoastOutpost, titled, “FPPC Clears Del Norte County Of Misusing Public FundsTo Promote Measure R,” contains only two significant errors, along witha number of minor ones. It helps immensely if you as a reporter…
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Crescent City Circus. Who’s the ringleader, DA or Sheriff or?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 29, 2021 It would appear that the show is on in the political arenas in theCity. The current Mayor Pro Tem, Alex Campbell has been charged by DelNorte County’s District Attorney, Katherine Micks as failing to live inthe City’s town limits as required for a candidate to…