Category: Ethics
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Is the City playing games for a change?
Opinion piece by Donna Westfall – February 16, 2016 – with UPDATE February 18th.- 2,023 protests against the proposed 20% increase to sewer rates were pronounced counted and in her possession by City Clerk, Kymmie Scott, at the Crescent City, City Council meeting held Tuesday night at the Flynn Center. To win, 1,716 valid protests need to…
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Time for Solid Waste Authority to be disbanded?
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – February 10, 2016 – It appears that Staff Writer Laura Jo Welter has become the Triplicate’s chief apologist for Supervisor Martha McClure and her favorite toy, the Del Norte Solid Waste Authority. Following Supervisor McClure’s recent antics in last month’s Board of Supervisor’s meeting, Ms. Welter wrote a completely…
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JOEY YOUNG TRIAL SET FOR FEBRUARY 8, 2016
By Linda Sutter – January 22, 2016 – Joey Young’s trial for allegedly engaging in sex with an underage minor, begins on February 8, 2016 in Department 1 at 9 a.m. In an opposition to dismiss three counts, Assistant District Attorney, Katie Micks, disclosed the following text messages that were sent to the victim by Joey Young. Please…
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Update on the Sewer Rate Meeting
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – January 14, 2016 – While signature gatherers employed by the local Taxpayers Association knocked on doors and stood at the water company, and sat at a table at Safeway collecting 9 out of 10 signatures to protest the sewer rate increase; attendance at the sewer plant was dismal by…
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The Sewer Rate Scam
Opinion Piece by Donna Westfall – January 13, 2016 – The City wants us to believe that they can repay the $40 million loan over the next 26 years by reducing 50% of the residential customers sewer rates by going to consumption based rates. I highly doubt it. When a group of us proposed consumption…
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Does Martha McClure need a time out?
By A Phillips – December 29, 2015 – It appears Supervisor Martha McClure has been a bad girl in her appointment to the Del Norte County Solid Waste Authority (DNSWMA). On December 28, 2015, the Crescent City/Del Norte County Taxpayers Association served a Formal Complaint on the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors against Supervisor…
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Pat Black, “I trust staff to manage the books”
By Donna Westfall November 24, 2015 Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting: agenda item #3 was pulled for separate discussion from the consent agenda. This item concerned Pat Black’s appointment to the Solid Waste Authority Board (The Board). The public wanted to address that issue later in the meeting rather than have it rubber stamped. Ms.…
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States Terminating Planned Parenthood Funding
By Donna Westfall – November 13, 2015 Credit to LiveActionNews.com Credit to LifeSiteNews.com As of August, five states have made moves to defund Planned Parenthood (PP). Another 13 have launched investigations when a series of undercover video’s were released showing PP’s officials discussing the sale of fetal tissues for profit. In October, Governor Greg Abbott discussed Texas’…
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Nobody wants to be on Solid Waste Board
By Donna Westfall After the travesty of forcing Roger Gitlin to resign on trumped-up, blackmail-type tactics by the 2014-2015 Grand Jury engineered by Foreman Dr. Tod Roy, who many believe is the mouth piece for former Executive Director of Solid Waste Authority, Kevin Hendrick; no one from the Board of Supervisors wants to sit on…
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Reasons for Recalls and Lawsuits
By Donna Westfall Over the course of the last eight years, there were a number of unsuccessful recalls initiated. I know because I instigated or supported them against my then fellow council members; Charles Slert, Kathryn Murray, Kelly Schellong and Dennis Burns. There were also lawsuits filed against me by the City, and against the…