Category: City Council
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2017 LABOR LAW FOR SMALL BIZ
City of Crescent City – January 20, 2017 – FREE WORKSHOP There is change in the air. 2017 brings new labor laws for small business owners. Small Business Development Center (SBDC), Business Advisor, Traci Fansler, will be highlighting these changes and how that relates to you. She will discuss the new minimum wage requirements, what…
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ROAD CLOSURE
Road Closure Continues on Cooper Ave. Use of alternate routes necessary November 15, 2016: A drainage issue on Cooper Ave. between Hwy 101 and J Street has the road closed until further notice. City crews are working diligently to resolve the problem but it is expected that it may take several days. Plan on using…
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS
Thanks to all that ran and congratulations to those that won: Roger Gitlin, Supervisor 1st District on his re-election with 53.7% of the vote. Bob Berkowitz, Supervisor 5th District on his election with 51.87% of the vote. Roger Daley, Del Norte Unified School Board – 44.08%. Heidi Kime, Jason Greenough and Alex Fallman the newly…
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How local election rigging works
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 5, 2016 – While it is so often constructive to point out the failings to the public of our Constitutional Rights of Free Speech by our local print newspaper, the Del Norte Triplicate, there is a much more insidious activity that our paper is guilty of with regards…
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Where is Kathryn Murray?
By Donna Westfall – October 31, 2016 – Candidate for 1st District, Kathryn Murray, spoke extensively at the recent Tea Party Candidates forum about all the committees she sits on, like Last Change Grade (LCG). However, when the time came to take part in meeting with Congressman Jared Huffman and Oregon 4th District Representative, Peter…
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Ignored for 10 years helping the homeless
By Mike Justice, Executive Director of Our Daily Bread Ministries – October 27, 2016 – Wednesday, October 26, 2016, I posted that our local government needs an overhaul, both City and County and here is why. For the last 10 years, I have personally been taking care of the poor and homeless people in our…
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BREAKING NEWS! Part 1 of the Case Alleging Fraud on WWTP, SFR loan, and sewer rates
By Donna Westfall – October 16, 2016 (Credit to CBS News..com/news/60-minutes-most-famous-whistleblower/, Cassi Feldman, February 4, 2016) October 16, 2016 – Remember Deep Throat? No, not the movie. Remember that guy that helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein expose the Watergate scandal that toppled the Nixon presidency. Mark Felt (William Mark Felt, Sr.)…
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FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?
Opinion Piece by Linda Sutter – October 15, 2016 – CANDIDATES AND OUR CHOICES For the last two nights, Thursday, October 13th and Friday, October 14th, the local Tea Party gave the community the opportunity to ask their own questions during political debate between the candidates running. The turnout for this was less about 30…
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The Problems With The Sewer Rates or Why You Should Vote No On Measure Q
By Donna Westfall October 8, 2016 – The City of Crescent City has the wisdom of a gnat. No disrespect to gnats of this world. The City approves the upgrade and expansion of the wastewater treatment plant on prime beach front property in a Tsunami zone. Aside from that, they expand the sewer plant not…
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Will the Veteran’s Memorial Monument ever be built?
By Donna Westfall – October 5, 2016 – Monday night, October 3rd before the Crescent City, City Council Harlan Zeigler, President of the Veteran’s Memorial Monument Group brought the council up to date. Primarily, they were there to discuss the $75,000 maintenance fee required by the City. In his update, Zeigler spoke about the…