Category: Del Norte County
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Do you want or need REAL ID?
By Donna Westfall – September 21, 2020 In today’s mail a notice for renewing a driver’s license came from DMV, along with a separate flyer accompanying the the notice about; How to get a REAL ID. Let’s go back 19 years to 9/11/01 when terrorists attacked the twin towers. Congress passed the REAL ID Act…
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Testing; will the real Covid 19 please stand up
By Samuel Strait – September 14, 2020 When I returned from vacation in early March 2020, I was greeted with the hysterical refrain from nearly every news outfit that the end of the world was upon us. At the end of that month, we were told that if we only followed the edicts of various…
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Update on banning bird hunting at Lake Earl Wildlife Refuge
By Randal South – September 13, 2020 Efforts to ban hunting at the Lake Earl Wildlife Refuge now appear to be centered on the US Fish and Wildlife Flyway Committee. The US Fish and Wildlife Flyway Committees are open to anyone who wants to be on them. For much of the last half century the…
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DN COUNTY RECEIVES $463,880 from the State of California for COVID 19
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – August 26, 2020 Do we really need another tax? Remember When Supervisor Chris Howard announced, “We need to increase sales tax 1%, because of COVID 19″? Well It’s a MIRACLE!!!! DEL Norte County, has received $463,880. A total estimated allocation has been established by the State in the amount…
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The Truth About the County’s Proposed 1% Sales Tax
By Roger Gitlin – August 26, 2020 It is disheartening if not pathetic that our Board of Supervisors’ only solution to address our budget is to raise our taxes, in this case the General Sales tax. CURRENT: At present, the Del Norte County sales tax, including the City of Crescent City is 7.50%. You may…
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Pay Cuts Before Sales Tax Hike
By Angry Old American – July 29, 2020 One Percent Tax Hike? Ever heard of death by a thousand cuts? What we have in Crescent City, Del Norte County and the State of California is an endless succession of skin deep razor cuts that will eventually drain the life’s blood from all of us. How…
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Should the City and County reduce expenses before adding 1% sales tax?
Submitted by Linda Sutter, July 24, 2020 CALIFORNIA TRANSPARENCY – Do we really need a one cent sales tax? Both City and County are planning to ask for the 1 cent sales tax increase. California Transparency should clear up any thought of this request. The following positions that were paid include benefits and overtime. Let’s…
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WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH $60,000?
Submitted By Linda Sutter – July 13, 2020 On June 9th, 2020 the Board of Supervisors approved to give $60,000 to a company in Washington DC to lobby for the better good of Del Norte County. The Company they hired is called the Thorn Run Partners and the person allegedly representing Del Norte County’s interest…
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Behind the Scene
By Jaime Yarbrough, President, Del Norte Amateur Radio Club – June 29, 2020 This last weekend the Del Norte Amateur Radio Club ( https://dnarc.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?sl=1521797192 ) participated in the American Radio Relay League Field Day. Due to COVID-19 our typical installation at Beach Front Park did not take place. Field Day for Amateur radio is always the…
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Being Dismissed By KFUG-FM Radio
By Samuel Strait – May 31, 2020 – I wish to extend my great appreciation to all the folks that e-mailed, texted, phoned, and stopped me on the street to express their disgust of KFUG manager’s, Paul Critz, on learning of my dismissal from the Sunday line up. I certainly was not quite aware that…