Category: Del Norte County

By Donna Westfall – May 28, 2020 Apparently freedom of speech is on the outs with Paul Critz, owner of KFUG-FM radio station.  When Samuel Strait was talking about opening up the economy in Del Norte in contrast to the owners position, Sam was dismissed.  This position held by Sam is an unpaid position. KFUG…

By Donna Westfall – May 12, 2020 – Credit to The Sacramento Bee article, “Northern California counties scramble to reopen. Some are confused by Newsom’s demands” BY TONY BIZJAK, DALE KASLER, AND ALEXANDRA YOON-HENDRICKS published MAY 11, 2020 04:18 PM , UPDATED MAY 11, 2020 05:02 PM “As of Monday, May 11th, Placer, El Dorado, Yuba, Sutter, Nevada,…

By Samuel Strait – May 8, 2020 With all that has gone wrong in California over the course of the last decade or so with the governing body having gone so completely off the rails, it will likely be hard to top the past three months of dictatorship in the form of Governor Gavin Newsom…

Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin – May 1, 2020 We all know the Chamber of Commerce has cancelled the 4th July Parade. Tragic ! What you may not know is a group of community members were invited to a ZOOM meeting with Executive Director Cindy Vosberg, Chamber president Melodee Mitcheii and several other members of…

WHEN:   Thursday, May 7, 2020 TIME:      12 Noon WHERE: Highway 101 North near the Fairgrounds Retired Del Norte County Sheriff,  Dean Wilson,  has announced he is organizing a Rally expressing community dissatisfaction with Gov. Newsom’s Executive Order overreach. Please join us in asserting our 1st Amendment right to assemble and express our freedom…

Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 1, 2020 I have never been able to have a particular fondness for government, nor some of the groups that seem to be inevitable off shoots from government.  I seem to have that almost inescapable feeling that the government and those groups claiming to be ever so beneficial…

By Thomas Barnes – April 28, 2020 SACRAMENTO, Calif.  Officials from six rural Northern California counties and 14 small cities have urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to let the counties reopen their economies, marking the most significant pushback yet from local leaders against a mandatory stay-at-home order that is in its second month that has left…

By Samuel Strait – April 24, 2020 – When I returned from a much needed decompress on March 1st, then transiting  through LAX, I was greeted by an hysterical US media on nearly every channel, hyping the end of the world as we know it, two point two million deaths by April in the US…

By Donna Westfall – April 22, 2020 If we look at the numbers of deaths in Los Angeles County, 1,320 so far and climbing with about 100 reported on Tuesday, April 21st, (over 35,000 confirmed cases) the city is definitely a disaster.  The only city to surpass those numbers is New York with a whopping…