Category: Ethics
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The economic devastation of Last Chance Grade falling into the ocean
By Donna Westfall – February 22, 2017 – What faster way could we turn Crescent City/Del Norte County into a ghost town? If someone were intent on destroying our area. they would take out the roads that allow transports to bring food in and out. With failing businesses like Alexandre’s Daily having to dump milk…
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Guilty until proven innocent – Judy Ranger’s story – Part 3
By Donna Westfall – February 11, 2017 – Quick synopsis – In 2012, 62 year old Bryan Ranger was arrested and placed in jail on $1/2 million bail for allegations of sexually abusing and molesting his children who were all minors at the time. His wife, Judy, had her family ripped apart from her. Her…
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Guilty until proven innocent – Judy Ranger’s Story – Part 2
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – February 11, 2017 – My husband and I spent the last few nights watching the OJ “Juice” Simpson trial produced by John Travolta on Netflix. It brought back memories of the Trial of the Century along with learning things we had never paid attention to before like all of…
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Guilty until proven innocent – Judy Ranger’s story- Part 1
By Donna Westfall – February 9, 2017 – Ordinarily you hear that when you’re arrested and awaiting trial you are innocent until proven guilty. But in this sad saga, the deck has been stacked against a very nice, moral, fundamentalist Christian couple trying to raise their large family with old fashioned values. The husband has…
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Is it time to flush the Triplicate?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 6, 2016 – Glub, Glub, that is the sound of the Triplicate and its staff circling the toilet bowl ready for the final plunge. The idea that the Triplicate’s editor had to break a standing policy “to avoid publishing controversial stories about local elections on the last publication…
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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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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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I’VE BEEN BANNED BY THE TRIPLICATE
By Donna Westfall – October 14, 2016 – Are you old enough to remember when American’s felt smug in their constitutional freedoms of the press and free speech during the Cold War? Afterall, Pravda, the official Russian newspaper and mouthpiece of Communist Russia was there to censor anything and everything. Not so in America. Well,…
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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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Does the public have a right to know about an elected officials addictions or mental illness?
By Donna Westfall – September 16, 2016 – Like it or not, we are a heavily medicated society. Alcohol, caffeine, marijuana, anti-depressants and tobacco are just a few of the substances we turn to. Over 61 million American’s suffer from mental illness and of those about 13.6 million live with a serious mental illness such…