Category: Corruption
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SUTTER’S EXCLUSIVE HEALTH PLAN EXCLUDES LOCAL PHYSICIANS
by Kevin Caldwell, M.D. and Donna Sund, D.O. Many readers are aware of the new local EPO Health Plan being offered by Sutter Health, Anthem, and CalPERS. You may or may not be aware that Redwood Medical Offices and several other local offices are not currently listed on the provider panel. Here’s why: The new…
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Betrayal by Sutter Coast Hospital BOARD
OPINION PIECE BY DALE L. BOHLING Unless there is a momentous legal intervention in the scheming, conniving attempt by Sutter Health Corporation to steal Sutter Coast Hospital all Del Norte and Curry county residents will face an ongoing devastating community health crisis of huge proportions. And who is this calamity attributable to? Insatiable greed of a…
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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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January 27th Is International Holocaust Day
BY DONNA WESTFALL 70 years ago today, the Russians liberated Auschwitz. This date of remembrance was chosen by the United Nations because it falls on the anniversary of the liberation in 1945 of the Auschwitz death camp, the Nazis’ most notorious death camp and a symbol of the evil inflicted across the European continent. In…
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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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Looking Back to 2007 Comments on Sewer Rates
BY DONNA WESTFALL From the transcribed audio tapes dated September 26, 2007. A workshop was held at the Cultural Center in Crescent City by the City Council and staff. Ely Naffah, City Manager “….they (developers) pay up front, the hook-up fee, which covers like about 17 years of the loan payment, and then they start paying…
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Sutter Health CEO’s income up to $6.4 million in 2012
by Roxie Hazard, Certified Radiologic Technologist Is Sutter Health a not for profit charity, or just a secretive “for profit” corporation in disguise? Read more and decide for yourself . . . This article investigates the workings of Sutter Health Corporation, a multibillion dollar California healthcare company which has transitioned from its former role as…
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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”…