Author: Samuel Strait
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Part 2: How are Small Businesses Faring in Crescent City/Del Norte County?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 5, 2021 The following is part two of a series on how the past year has affectedlocal businesses. This particular article explores the trials andtribulations of one hotel owner in the day of the Covid Pandemic. Oneof the key components of the local economy is tourism. So…
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Will you get the COVID Vaccination?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 3, 2020 We are now into what has been feverishly reported as the pandemic of the millennium. A year or more if you count the time in China and what do we really know? Not much for certain. Here in the United States wehave endured lock downs,…
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Spring whine from teachers about being under appreciated
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 3, 2020 It’s January already and it must be about time for the local teacher’s union to start their yearly whine about being under appreciated. It usually takes the form of an increase in salary across the board that the local school district can ill afford, coupled…
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PART 1: How are Small Businesses Faring in Crescent City/Del Norte County?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 2, 2020 The following is an ongoing four part series of how small business has fared over the past year. Obviously 2020 has not been a normal year for small business in Del Norte County. Just how devastating, will only become evident in the months to come. …
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Cell Phones: New Form of Governmental Slavery?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 1, 2021 Has American rugged individualism gone the way of Friedrich Hayek’sprophetic 1944 classic, “Road to Serfdom”? Are Americans ready to assume the iron collar and chains of governmental slavery? I suspect weshall see. Major corporations and tech have banded together to form The Common Project. …
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Part 2: Eye On Del Norte Has Their Eyes On The County’s Bidding Process
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – December 30, 2020 The following is the second part in the on going series of articles surrounding the County’s bidding process. In a previous article introducing Eye On Del Norte, a local advocacy group, they expressed interest in standardizing the process in which Del Norte County awards its…
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Mary Katherine Goddard – 1st Female Newspaper Publisher (1775)
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – December 30, 2020 In my mind Mary Katherine Goddard faced a most difficult path tobecoming a notable American in an age, the eighteenth to earlynineteenth centuries, where women were essentially second classcitizens. Born in Connecticut in 1738, Miss Katy as she was known, wenton to make her mark…
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The Cook Islands
By Samuel Strait – December 28, 2020 It seems like I should be doing something other than sitting reading,watching TV, and generally locked in my house. Ordinarily, I would beputting the finishing touches on my latest adventure out of the Country,some place warmer, with blue skies, new and exotic foods to try,interesting people to meet,…
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Eye on Del Norte has their Eyes on the County’s Bidding Process
By Samuel Strait – November 23, 2020 – Picture Credit: Getty Images It is not often that the way our local government awards contracts is the scintillating topic of conversation around the evening dinner table. For the most part we rely on our local representatives and their employees to construct a process that insures that…
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Leave Research to the REAL Scientists!
By Samuel Strait – November 22, 2020 It is not often that I am completely blown away by something said bythose that occupy positions of prominence in the science world. In anarticle found in Forbes published back in July of this year, “SeniorScience Contributor” Ethan Siegel, titled his piece ‘You must not ‘doyour own…