Category: Del Norte County
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Odds and Ends
By Donna Westfall – November 18, 2020 FLUORIDE – Besides recounting votes in the fine state of Georgia from the November 3, 2020 election, the tiny city of Bostwick, Georgia, has voted to end the fluoridation of its water. According to the city’s water operator, “It’s not dangerous, it’s just unnecessary.” I agree it’s unnecessary,…
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Is attending a meeting with our mostly Democratic politicians a waste of time?
By Donna Westfall – November 13, 2020 This from Senator Mike McGuire: “For decades, the residents of Del Norte and Humboldt counties have been in search of a long-term fix for Highway 101’s Last Chance Grade as it continues to slide toward the Pacific. With the partnership of the federal, state and local governments, a…
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Fire Jeff Harris, School Superintendent and Assistant?
Opinion Piece By Randal South – November 12, 2020 On November 9, 2020, I submitted the following to the Del Norte County School Board: NOTICE OF REQUESTED ACTION Dear Ladies and Gentlemen: 1) I request the school board immediately terminate Superintendent of Public Instruction Jeff Harris, and Assistant Superintendent of Public Instruction Thomas Kissinger. 2…
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Errors, inaccuracies, clarifications and moot statements
By Jeff McCaddon – October 28, 2020 At the conclusion of this letter is a public comment made during the October 27th Meeting of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors. In all fairness, I must state from the onset that I was in error over two statements, and used confusing language in another. My…
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$40,000 tax dollars spent to influence your vote to increase sales tax
By Donna Westfall – October 26, 2020 – Part 1 How do you like having our Del Norte County County Administrative Officer (CAO), Jay Sarina, with the power to spend up to $40,000 tax dollars to a Political Strategist firm in Oakland working on seeing that the sales tax is increased? And he can do…
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The City’s Response to Permanent Housing the Homeless at Coastal Inn & Suites
Submitted by Linda Sutter – October 6, 2020 Upon much questioning about the proposed purchase, Mayor Blake Inscore sent the following response . October 6, 2020 Ms. Sutter, I wanted to provide some clarification regarding the County’s purchase of the Coastal Inn and Suites. The City had no authority to act in any manner regarding…
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PEACEFUL PROTEST SCHEDULED FOR OCT 8TH
By Donna Westfall – October 3, 2020 I’ve been reading information provided by Heather Snow, the Director of Health and Human Services about the $2.4 grant money to purchase…
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PRIDE IN COMMUNITY: Last and final week to volunteer
By Donna Westfall – October 1, 2020 Every Wednesday until Sea Cruise, volunteers meet to clean up a segment of our city with curb, sidewalk and gutter weed abatement. Why are they doing this? Because Sea Cruise 2020 is coming and the City needs as much help as it can get to make our town…
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Sheriff’s Office says: Sit Your Children Down
Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office – September 30, 2020 Parents: Please read this post, then figure out a way to sit your children down and have a discussion with them. For the past several weeks and for the foreseeable future, the DNSO has been and will remain actively investigating the presence of child predators that…
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Local Government: Good at shooting themselves in the foot
By Samuel Strait – September 27, 2020 Recently, there has been word floating around the County that the local Board of Supervisors was planning a series of video conferences surrounding a decision to purchase a local motel and convert it into a homeless shelter. Now I realize that our Governor, Gavin Newsom, has made it…