Category: Corruption
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City Asks For Another $36 Million for Phase 2 on WWTP
BY DONNA WESTFALL Unbelievable! Not only is the city in default within 3 years of taking out the State Revolving Loan which was predicted, and today having to go before the State Water Resource Board to get approval on eliminating the 2.4% interest rate, but to read their paperwork they are outright lying about the population in our…
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BLACKHAWK PISTOL STORY, PARTS 1, 2 AND 3
BY POPULAR DEMAND, WE ARE RE-PRINTING ALL THREE PARTS TOGETHER By Investigative Reporter A. Phillips Some informants are criminals trying to mitigate their own legal problems by “snitching” on someone else. On the one hand, informants or confidential informants play a vital role in the investigation of many types of crimes, especially drug trafficking and other varieties…
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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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WHISTLE BLOWERS WELCOME HERE
BY DONNA WESTFALL The Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association has been created. There will be a meeting announced soon. Fundraising has been well received by the community. Referendums to take the latest sewer rate increase to the ballot will be circulated starting July 3rd. 167 valid signatures are required from CITY ONLY REGISTERED VOTERS. …
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Incumbent Sheriff Dean Wilson
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL May 31, 2014 – I attended Wilson’s kick-off party for his campaign held at the Lighthouse Inn. I received his sheet on the statistics showing drops in all areas of crime. I was impressed. Three hours were spent interviewing him and multiple emails sent back and forth. Interviews of other…
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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…
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STATE OF JEFFERSON
BY DONNA WESTFALL Have you heard? There are those who want to break away from the State of California and create an entirely new state, the State of Jefferson (SOJ). Should Del Norte County join about 18 other counties in Northern California and create the State of Jefferson (and possibly include some southern Oregon counties)? There…
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CONFIDENTIALITY, WHISTLE BLOWERS AND CORRUPTION
BY DONNA WESTFALL – August 4, 2013 I wonder about the people in our area understanding the concept of confidentiality. It’s to keep something private and secret. It’s to protect information, identities, or legal agreements. As a Medi-Cal Specialist for Long Term Care the last 19 years, I have to keep my clients information confidential.…