Category: Ethics
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How You Can Help Oppose Sutter’s Corporate Plans
SUBMITTED BY DR. GREG DUNCAN If you believe healthcare decisions should be based on factual information in open meetings, please join our effort. To add your name to the more than 4,000 Del Norte County residents who have signed the petition opposing Sutter’s corporate plans, stop by my office on 1200 Marshall St. Forward this information…
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Joseph Goebbels Was Right
GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL CEREMELLO, Former Vice-Mayor/Councilman City of Dixon “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus…
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Solid Waste Management Authority Board Meeting
BY DONNA WESTFALL Item 5.4 was voted on and the count was 3 to 1 in favor of releasing the confidential report by Donald Scanlon dated July 16, 2013. This report will be made available for viewing to the public at the Solid Waste Management Authority. Absent at the Board meeting was Martha McClure. Background: Originally in October…
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
CREDIT TO USTREAM FOR THE VIDEO Public Comment at Board of Supervisor’s Meeting January 27, 2015 Complaints about rogue sheriff’s deputies put on the public record: [cincopa A4CA9RMZDjM9]
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Positive Changes at the Sheriff’s Office
BY DONNA WESTFALL Since Erik Appersons swearing in, nine days ago as the new Sheriff, reports of positive changes are being called-in to Crescent City Times.com. One resident said that it looks like we’re getting our money’s worth this time. Some of the complaints the public had about the last regime were the horrible attitude exhibited…
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CORRUPT ILLOGICALITY AND WHITE COLLAR CRIME
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL Have you heard about the former manager at Madoff’s firm being sentenced to six years in prison? Apparently, Annette Bongiorno worked nearly 40 years for the firm and was indicted in 2010 not as a coldly calculating participant in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme but willfully blinded herself to the “corrupt illogicality”…
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Sewer Loan/Rates: Misinformation And Sound Bites Coming From The City Council, Not The Citizens
BY KATHERINE KELLY Here we go again. According to the Triplicate article, Bleak Report on City Sewer Debt, it’s the same old story, different council. To hear Mayor Rick Holley decry citizen opposition to the latest proposals on fixing what they broke in 2007 as misinformation and sound bites, and having Councilman Rich Enea belt…
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SEWER RATES TO RISE AGAIN; OR WILL THEY?
BY DONNA WESTFALL HERE IS THE SAMPLE OF A BALLOT FOR PROTESTING THE UPCOMING SEWER RATE INCREASE. Feel free to make copies and pass them out. But get them to me so we can tabulate and make copies to double check against the City’s count. Until the City Council deems it a priority to…
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WILL THERE BE JUSTICE FOR KENNETH JONES?
BY DONNA WESTFALL Coulter Mann didn’t take a gun and deliberately set out to shoot somebody. That would be murder, right? What he did was drink too much, jump in his vehicle, talk on his cell phone while driving and kill Kenneth Jones in a collision. And for that the Judge pronounced a 3 year prison sentence. …
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DESTRUCTION OF TWO FAMILIES
BY INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER LINDA SUTTER On an ordinary day you wake up, go about your business, go to work and then maybe enjoy the company of some friends later in the evening. You receive a phone call from the hospital, “Your husband has been in an accident.” When you arrive at the hospital, you are…