Category: City Council
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Part 2: City Council Meeting Dec 20th
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – December 22, 2021 Why the City will upfront $170,000 to win a Grant that will complete Front and K St projects. At the Tuesday evening Crescent City Council meeting, Councilors voted unanimously to contract with Stover Engineering to design and engineer two projects, one on iconic…
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Part 1: City Council Meeting Dec. 20th
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DE NORTE – December 21, 2021 At the Crescent City, City Council’s last meeting of the year, the Council has sent incumbent Mayor Jason Greenough back with the gavel for 2022. Confusion abounded with individual Councilors nominating Greenough, Blake Inscore and Isaiah Wright, respectively. The dust settled and Mayor…
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The Invisible King, And The Rubber Stamp Prince
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – December 22, 2021 Blake Inscore must be home sitting on his toilet weeping over the recentdecision by the City Council to forgo his continued leadership on theCouncil. Someone else must take his place as the City’s mouthpiece atall future news worthy events in the City. How Tragic…. …
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Castles, Palaces, And Other Things We Cannot Afford
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – December 19, 2021 Seems now that the City is awash with cash, all those things we weretold about being unable to pay for police, fire, and emergency measureshave gone out the window. Measure “S” the sales tax increase that wasto generate $1.3 million per year to take…
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Just Exactly Who Is A Benefit To The People?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – December 17, 2021 Most of you that read the Crescent City Times may have noticed a lack of writingfrom yours truly in the pages of the Times. As to that, I have beentraveling for most of the past month through Oregon, Western Washington,with some brief visits to Northern California,…
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SQUEAKY WHEEL GETS THE OIL
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – December 7, 2021 Several very positive items emerged from tonight’s Crescent City Council meeting. 1) Over the past several months, EYE ON DEL NORTE has asked for updates on the status of the long-standing EYESORE vacant, dilapidated medical building at 200 A St, in arguably one…
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America The Beautiful?
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – December 2, 2021 Our travels across the country show us a truly beautiful view of America… but not everywhere. Here are some of my observations: As we traveled from the Golden State to our destination in Arkansas for Thanksgiving, Angie and I visited Texas, Oklahoma and…
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Fire Stutz
Opinion Piece By Branden Bieber – October 5, 2021 The road to Hell was paved with “Good” intentions… For the financial losses incurred by private, city, and county services in Del Norte County at the recommendation of the County Health Officer, Dr. Stutz is complacent in establishing and creating hostile work environments, decreased gross profits…
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Tempest in a Tea Cup
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 1, 2021 The City of Crescent City continues to double down and test its employees for the Covid 19 virus. I do not diminish the seriousness of this Virus or minimize these past sixteen months, the deaths of 38 Del Norte individuals, Public Health Branch…
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CALL TO ACTION
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 3, 2021 Monday Evening, October 4th at 6PM, the City Council holds its first Monday of the month meeting. Item #9 on the CITY Agenda calls for a City discussion re: an official letter to State and Federal partners in expressing the City’s position on…