Category: Corruption
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The Wells Fargo Bank Scandal
By Donna Westfall – November 13, 2016 – Henry Wells and William Fargo founded Wells Fargo Bank in 1852. The company is 164 years old and based in San Francisco. The founders are probably turning over in their graves right about now. In July 2015, it became the world largest bank, but by September 2016,…
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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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Triplicate Does Hatchet Job on Berkowitz and Gitlin
By Donna Westfall – November 5, 2016 – In a last minute to boost the sagging campaigns of both Finigan and Murray, the Triplicate has pulled out all of the stops. On the last publication day before election they accuse both Gitlin and Berkowitz of using a targeted voter mailer to certain groups of voters and…
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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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The Great Solid Waste Hoax
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – October 21, 2016 – Having witnessed firsthand how corrupt our local Solid Waste JPA is and continues to be, I make it a point to ask questions whenever I travel to gauge just how badly our State solid waste regulations impact our local economy as well as confirm the…
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The importance of a free press
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – October 20, 2016 – Since I have included this part of a “Letter to the Editor” to be published, I can only assume that the portion of this letter that I submitted to the Triplicate was refused publication and I am offering these words to the readers of the CrescentCityTimes. It…
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Local Democrat’s Operate A Laundromat?
By Donna Westfall – October 20, 2016 – When a person thinks of money laundering, the first thing that comes to mind is usually the TV show “The Sopranos.” Here the criminal gang would hide the source of their stolen money by opening a legitimate enterprise like a restaurant where they then could funnel their money…
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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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FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH?
Opinion Piece by Linda Sutter – October 15, 2016 – CANDIDATES AND OUR CHOICES For the last two nights, Thursday, October 13th and Friday, October 14th, the local Tea Party gave the community the opportunity to ask their own questions during political debate between the candidates running. The turnout for this was less about 30…
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Part 2: Banned by the Triplicate
By Donna Westfall – October 15, 2016 – Before we start listing some of the people coming out of the woodwork stating that they too have been banned; let’s read what Michael J. Ceremello, Jr. has to say. He’s the former Vice-Mayor/Councilman from the City of Dixon. He writes a regular column for the Independent Voice.…