Author: Samuel Strait
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Foreign Faces in Foreign Places
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 27, 2021 For those of you that regularly read the Crescent City Times, you willno doubt know that I enjoy traveling around the world experiencing newand strange places, and meeting new and interesting people in thoseplaces. I suspect that is a big part of travel for many…
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Economic Development in Crescent City, Fat Chance!
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 25, 2021 In a recently posted article by none other than Jessica Cejnar,“Crescent City introduces and is already chipping away at an EconomicDevelopment Plan”, we will find a regurgitated narrative of whatCrescent City imagines what “Economic Development” represents. Thepiece is clearly cringe worthy as she, the…
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PART 2: The Harbor
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 24, 2021 When commercial fishing struggles to pay its bills, the harbor will notbe far behind. In recent years as the commercial fishing fleet hasscrambled to overcome shrinking seasons, regulations, high fuelcosts,insurance and a host of other responsibilities, so has the harborstruggled to pay its bills. …
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Part 1: Harbor – It’s Crab Season, But NO Crabs
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large Normally this time of the year so shortly after the beginning of theDungeness Crab season the Crescent City harbor is bustling with franticactivity as commercial fishermen get the last of their crab gear loadedand into the waters off Crescent City. The fuel dock is busy and boatsare normally lined…
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Just a little Conspiracy Theory, What?
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – January 22, 2021 I have been in the “Comments” section of this paper accused of being aconspiracy theorist. That assumes a great deal about the articles Iproduce. So lets say, I talk about a video that could well be aconspiracy theory, and I will point out why, I…
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PART TWO: Our Airport
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – January 20, 2021 The following is the second part of a two part series on the Del NorteCounty Regional Airport. To recap, we now have a new underutilizedterminal that will require a stable commercial airline in order to paydown the debt from construction of the terminal. We are…
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COVID-19 Economic Shutdown More Deadly Than The Virus
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 19, 2021 It has been a year since Covid-19 burst on the scene here in the UnitedStates, and for those that have paid attention, we learn something newnearly every day. After hearing and reading greatly exaggerated storiesand reports about how deadly the virus was, and continued, relentlessbadgering…
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Our Airport
By Samuel Strait – January 17, 2021 I used to fly regularly out of Crescent City, when there was service toSan Francisco. I am sure that this was the case for many a localtraveler in spite of the iffy weather that made the flight down achallenge. Since the service first went to Portland, Oregon, and…
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Problems, Problems every where you look
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 15, 2021 – Cartoon Credit to Guy & Rodd. I suppose it shouldn’t be all that surprising that in a small ruralCounty in California that there seems to be problems wherever youlook. A Solid Waste Authority that in itself is a waste. 2. An Airport Commission that…
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How safe can you be?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 14, 2021 I haven’t watched much Television lately because it seems every othersentence contains the phrase “We are keeping you safe”. It is almost asif the word “safe” is synonymous with allowing a person to live forever. Of course, at least I hope it is so, that…