Category: Ethics
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McClure Whines Cuz Gitlin is Cleaning Up This Town
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall Shopping carts left all over the city. Graffiti on the walls. Urine smells in our shopping center. Couches left on the sidewalk. Sign icon’s left to rust. Weeds along the 101 corridor. All of the above and more contribute to making our town ugly, dirty and unsightly. I recall when…
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Are the Board Of Supervisors Going to Pull a Westfall?
Opinion Piece by Donna Westfall Do any of you remember when City Attorney Bob Black talked so smoothly to the Crescent City, City Council back in 2009 about establishing a Code of Ethics? Do you remember anyone saying, “It’s just a gentle reminder.” And then do you remember when I would ask question after question…
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JOEY YOUNG FAILS TO SHOW FOR COURT APPEARANCE
By Linda Sutter Joey Young, Director of Del Norte Human Resource, once again demonstrated his arrogance with blatant disregard to law when he failed to show up for his court appearance for new charges that had been placed on him for intentionally violating a restraining order . Attorney Mike Riese stated to the Judge that a procedure of…
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JUAN RAMIREZ MAKES APPEARANCE IN COURT ON BEHALF OF JOEY YOUNG
By Linda Sutter… Joey Young was to appear in court this afternoon for his arraignment. Representative Mike Riese appeared on Young’s behalf. Riese informed the Judge that District Attorney Trigg, who is currently on vacation, gave Joey Young permission to continue the arraignment process, however DA Trigg was not even available by telephone to verify this matter and…
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Bid Rigging on the WWTP?
By Donna Westfall – June 29, 2015 CREDIT TO DAVID SCHOLL, Publisher to Dixon’s Independent Voice Before the videos of the Crescent City, City Council meetings were destroyed and during the years of 2008 through 2010, I asked whether or not the bid was rigged referring to the one and only $37 million Wahlund bid…
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Response to BlackHawk Pistol Story Parts 1 – 4
OPINION PIECE BY ED HANSON “God’s Not Here Today” For those were the words touted and declared in a demonic tone emanating from one of the Del Norte Sheriff’s deputies while Dave Egan was reciting, The Lord’s Prayer, (that infamous day back in August 2011 under the late regime of former sheriff Dean Wilson at my friends home), as Dave…
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Anonymous Hackers Attack ISIS On-Line Supporters
While most of us sit at home sickened and repulsed by reports of video’s of beheadings of Christians, journalists and other innocents by the terrorist group ISIS, the hacktivist group, Anonymous, reports they are taking down ISIS sites on Twitter, Facebook and others. If Anonymous has taken down 800 Twitter sites, doesn’t that beg the question about Twitter’s…
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More Sneaky, Conniving and Unprofessional Behavior By City Agency This Time
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL I was chatting with my friend last night who lives out of town and is knowledgable about all sorts of things like training grand juries and how city’s can pull a fast one over the public by wording agenda items to mislead. I ran this by her. Agenda Item #14 on…
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The Fred Hansen Story – When and How to File A Complaint With The Sheriff’s Office: Part 2
By Donna Westfall At 11:30 am, Wednesday, February 19th, Fred Hansen was awoken from sleep by two Sheriff’s Deputies. They asked him if he could accompany them to the Sheriff’s Department to discuss his complaint filed on January 21st against Det. Richard Griffin. Fred complied, but first he contacted me by phone. I was in…