Category: Del Norte County
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Unemployment and Del Norte County
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 22, 2021 – Graphic Credit to Statista Over the past year much of the news concerned the state of the currentpandemic and our reaction to it. It is well documented that our economysuffered a significant blow as well and unemployment sky rocketed tounimaginative heights. In April of…
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Last Chance Grade has not fallen into the ocean, yet.
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 19, 2021 Unless someone has blown out your pilot light, most folks in the Countyare aware of the fact that Last Chance Grade has had yet another slideblocking the traffic North and South. Due to some rather heavy rains,it should have come as no surprise, yet it…
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Latest on Newsom Recall: Signatures surpassed the magic number: 1,495,709. What happens next?
By Donna Westfall – February 18, 2021 Scandal ridden Gov. Newsom has Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Decline to State signing the recall petitions. It’s hard to tell exactly what bother’s people most: Whether it’s the highest state income tax in the nation, Largest homelessness in the nation, Abolishing capital punishment, Government overreach shutting down businesses,…
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Contour Air in the News
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – February 18, 2021 Let’s be clear about our airport and commercial air service, ContourAir, Crescent City to Oakland and return. Without a pretty heftysubsidy, Four million plus dollars, commercial air service to any whereout of Crescent City would be economically unfeasible. Any thing lessthan 15,000 to 20,000 passengers…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #1
By Donna Westfall – February 16, 2021 Last year I paid our property taxes by walking into the County Offices and handing them my letter of protest along with my check. Here’s the essence. “I don’t like paying taxes when I’m not getting what I’m paying for. In this case, our children in public schools…
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Covid-19 Mandates: Enough is Enough!
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 16, 2021 A recent comment in Linda Sutter’s piece on local restaurants in theCrescent City Times, triggered the same feeling that I have carriedaround since last Spring. After the barrage of media coverage of howdeadly this pandemic was going to be, before any real research had beendone, it…
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BREAKING NEWS: Road closure Hwy 101 at Last Chance Grade
By Linda Sutter – February 14, 2021 Stopped to talk to the flagger on Highway 101 south of Humboldt Road as stranded cars, RV’s , and trucks line Highway 101 little do they know the likelihood of getting through Last Chance Grade is pretty much nil. Flagger stated the width of the landslide of Last…
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With 57% proficiency in reading, and 27% proficiency in math. Do teachers deserve a pay increase or a pay decrease?
BY Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – February 14, 2021 It looks like right on cue we have the annual curbside gathering of theDel Norte Teacher’s Association along Highway 101 at the fairgroundsprotesting about how little pay and benefits that they receive. Granted, last year’s whine was cut short by the pandemic, but sureenough almost before…
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The effects of government closure on local restaurant’s
By Linda Sutter – January 13, 2021 After talking to several restaurant owners and managers in our local area one thing was made clear. There was an outpouring of local support to which every owner is deeply touched with much gratitude. The following restaurants reported how the crisis of covid has not only affected earnings,…
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WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES DEFYING PUBLIC OPPOSITION
By Linda Sutter – February 8, 2021 After reading an email sent by Tamera Leighton of the Del Norte Local Transportation Commission regarding Richardson Grove and STAA Trucks, one has to scratch their head. The following email was sent to Supervisor Chris Howard and Gerry Hemmingsen from Tamera Leighton, “On Sun, Jan 3, 202L at…