Category: City Council
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Att: Crescent City Council: “The Public Isn’t Stupid. Stop Treating us as if we are Children”
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – September 21, 2021 Monday’s City Council meeting (September 20th) was, if nothing else, the most interesting and informative I can remember. The subject was the role the City chooses to play in testing its employees, addressing the so-called Covid 19 crisis. To his credit, Mayor Greenough…
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Heather Snow’s Future Vacant Lot
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – June 9, 2021 No more prophetic words that appeared on a sign carried by a protesterto the intention of the County’s Board of Supervisor’s to allow DHHS topurchase the Coastal Inns and Suites located at 665 L Street for thepurpose of converting the motel to permanent housing for…
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Should City and County Consolidate?
By Jeff McCaddon Copyright Jeff McCaddon, March 26th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. Consolidation of City and County governments is not a new or extremist idea; such mergers have been done throughout the United States, and in many other Countries. Our own California State Capitol of Sacramento consolidated with Sacramento County in 1974. Such government mergers…
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Crescent City: Decaying, Deteriorating Downtown…Is it doomed to perpetual mediocrity?
By Roger Gitlin – April 2, 2021 As a City resident and retired County supervisor, I have long-lobeyed for a renaissance of our downtown community and District 1 downtown which I represented. My pleas for beautification through programs like Pride in Community and Take a Bite out of Blight, attracting hundreds of phenomenal volunteers has…
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Boston Tea Party
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 25, 2021 – picture credit to history.com I suspect that men like Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Molineuxwould be appalled by what is happening in this country today. Don’tknow who they are? On December 16. 1773, these three men and aboutsixty others moved from a meeting…
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Government Overreach: What’s wrong with the Golden State?
By Roger Gitlin, March 20, 2021 Angela and I just returned from a two month cross country odyssey in our travel trailer. Our route took us south to 1-10 enroute to Jacksonville, Florida and returned on lots of backroads from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and returning via 1-40 thru Arkansas,…
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PUPPET vs. SPINELESS NINNY MAYOR GREENOUGH
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – March 9, 2021 During a Special City Council meeting Mayor Greenough offered to give up his position as Mayor to Former Mayor Inscore. Puppet vs. Spineless Ninny, which can not be determined because Mayor Greenough (a Republican) exhibited both qualities. The first part of the city council meeting was…
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What Rikuzentakata, Again?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 It has been a while since Rikuzentakata, Japan was news worthy in the local area, so when it was recently a topic of conversation, the first thingthat came to mind is that Chris Howard and Blake Inscore must be homesick for a bit of international…
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Del Norte County, Odd Man Out
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 5, 2021 Just recently having viewed the map of all the counties in Californiathat were on board with the Jefferson State movement and those that arewithin Oregon who are involved with the Greater Idaho movement, itstruck me that the island of resistance to both movements was on…
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House Resolution – Boycott 2022 China Olympics for Human Right Violations
Submitted by Linda Sutter – March 3, 2021 Keep in mind as you read this article that the Del Norte Board of Supervisors, the city council, and the Chamber of Commerce voted to use $65,000 Taxpayer funds in 2019. This was to promote a $1,500 fishing boat that collided on our shores. Don’t you think…