Author: Samuel Strait
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“A Real Del Norter”
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 14, 2023 There once was a time in the not too distant past when storms of evengreater magnitude as has happened to begin the 2023 calendar year wereshrugged off as relatively “normal” weather events in Del Norte County. So often ten inches of rain in a four day period…
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The Church Of Environmental Religion: Friends Of Del Norte, EPIC, And CBD
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – March 10, 2023 For years the County of Del Norte has been plagued by the religion ofEnvironmentalism at great cost to the entire community for little in theway of any reason. The most recent example of this extreme philosophyis found in a recent Federal Court decision where an…
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The Failure Of Trying To House The Homeless
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 7, 2023 As we have been endlessly told by “Homeless Experts”, once you get themhoused, then is the time to deal with the issues that found themhomeless. So here we are decades later and the problem continues toworsen. Recent “Point and Time” surveys locally have shown inspite ofattempting to…
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The Border Coast Regional Airport Authority
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 3, 2023 As promised here is a bit more information surrounding the mess at JackMcNamara Regional Airport that services the area around Crescent Cityfor commercial air service to Oakland, California. Recently, theDirector of the Border Coast Regional Airport Authority, (BCRAA) Ryan Cooley, updated theDel Norte County Board of Supervisors…
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5-0 Club With No Definitive Change
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 2, 2023 Another Board of Supervisor’s meeting in Del Norte County and nothingreally changes. Board Chair Darren Short must have not ingested his“stupid pills” prior to this meeting and managed to successfullynavigate the two hour session with only a few minor insertions of footin mouth. Otherwise aside from his…
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The Coming Collapse Of Climate Change
Commentary by Samuel Strait – February 27, 2023 Looks like it is fair to say with the recent collapse of anythingremotely resembling expertise from many of our “Expert” class over thepast three years, it is not surprising that more of the Country’scitizens will be much more cautious when listening to the “expertpronouncements” going forward. Gone…
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Del Norte County’s First Homeless Gulag
Commentary by Samuel Strait – February 21, 2023 It may lack the guard towers and the barbed wire, but the Del NorteCounty Board of Supervisors recently gave the nod to Alison Ramsey ofTrue North Organizing for the construction of a pallet house “village”to house the County’s homeless population, pending receipt of $7 to $8million dollars…
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Looks Like The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost
Commentary by Samuel Strait The fiscal future for California by all indicators is looking ratherbleak. Spending for the past nearly five years has become akin to thatof a “drunken sailor” with no end it sight. Governor “empty suit”Newsom and Sacramento’s one party legislators have taken a wrecking ballto the State’s financial health in a way…
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Homelessness
Opinion By Samuel Strait – February 17, 2023 Recently I attended the local Board of Supervisors meeting, Tuesday,February 14th, and dutifully wrote a piece for the Crescent City Times giving myimpressions of said meeting. As usual, there is often much more to sayabout certain decisions made by the Board, likely as not the decisionwas a…
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The 5-0 Club With Some Dissension In The Ranks
Commentary by Samuel Strait – February 15, 2023 It is not often that the Board of Supervisors have anything but aspotless record of wall-to-wall affirmation in a Board meeting, but thisis what passes for one. In the current version of County government inaction there were times when members of the Board were not ear-to-ear injoint…