Author: Samuel Strait
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The 5-0 Club, Another Meeting, Growing Local Government
Commentary and Opinion By Samuel Strait – September 16, 2023 Three weeks have gone by since the last time the County’s illustrious“brain trust” met, but changes in how the County’s business is conductedhas continued along its mindless narrow path. One would think that whenthe Department of Health and Human Services represents much of whatpasses for…
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A Tale Of Two Fires
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 1, 2023 For just over two weeks we have had the ongoing saga of a wildfire atour very doorstep which our illustrious governor has finallyacknowledged just might be a burden to the local community. What aguy! In contrast, near to his highness, in the North Sacramento Valley,where there is…
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The 5-0 Club, Emergency? Oh, Yah that.
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – August 27, 2023 And, oh, by the way our illustrious 5-0 Club got together for anotherforgettable head scratchier, August 25, 2023. While there was someslight attention paid to the recent wild fires events that have engagedthe community recently, our illustrious Board of Supervisors were moreconcerned about the…
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Climate Change? No It’s The Weather Stupid!
Commentary by Samuel Strait – August 18, 2023 Recently, we had some “Cowboys” on the local Harbor Commission thatthought it was a “good idea” to get involved in Off Shore wind farming. Likely they were enticed by the prospect of righting the “clown show”that the current Harbor Commission has become following a regular seriesof missteps taken…
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The 4-0 Club, Supervisor Howard On Vacation Again
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – August 8, 2023 It is not as if Supervisor Howard’s participation is exactly missed, asthe remaining members of the Board of Supervisors are secure in theirrubber stamping of the County bureaucracy’s business. The continuedirrelevancy of the Chamber’s members is almost painful to watch. Theygobble up the malfunction of…
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Local Representatives Who No Longer Represent
Commentary By Samuel Strait On Tuesday, July 25th at 5:00 pm a meeting was held by our localgovernment representatives to consider what the community felt about theresurrection of the long dormant Tri Agency. For a typical governmentmeeting it was rather well attended as less than a half dozen citizensbother to attend most County meetings. In…
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The 5-0 Club, Not So Representative
Commentary By Samuel Strait – July 30, 2023 We were treated with two separate versions of our local representatives,both not particularly memorable in terms of just exactly who is supposedto be “calling the shots”. In one instance, the regular Board ofSupervisors Meeting, July 25, 2023, not at all, in the second suchmeeting of the BOS…
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Is Housing The Homeless Really A Solution?
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait There is an old saying that when you fail to solve your problem one way,it makes no sense to try and solve it by using the same way over andover again then expect a different outcome. California has employedbillions of dollars just in the past three years in a…
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The 5-0 Club, Who Is Not In Charge Of Anything
Commentary By Samuel Strait – July 19, 2023 After witnessing the theater performed twice a month in the Board OfSupervisor’s chamber for many years now, it should be crystal clear toanyone paying attention that it is unnecessary theater. We can dispensewith the notion that the BOS is of any use whatsoever to the communityand does…
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The 4-0 Club, Supervisor Howard Vacationing In Japan Again
Commentary and Mostly Opinion by Samuel Strait – July 6, 2023 It is hardly a surprise that should the opportunity to vacation inJapan, Supervisor Chris Howard would have his hand up first. Seems thathobnobbing with the Japanese is far more important to him than being anactual representative to the constituents of District Three. Like theSister…