Category: Del Norte County
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Your money goes to the Golden Nanny State
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – June 2, 2022 (Originally published in the Triplicate May 15, 2022 I’ve been following as many Supervisorial Candidate forums as I’m able to attend this election season. In a very real sense, I’m quite pleased I’m not a candidate but an observer and opinion broker. I’m…
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Our Dimwit In The State Senate, Mike McGuire
Commentary by Samuel Strait – May 19, 2022 With all of the current problems being faced by North Coast residentsyou would think our State representatives would be spending a majorityof their time seeking solutions to those problems. State Senator forthe North Coast, Mike McGuire is too busy trying to emulate thedenseness of the brain…
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The Big Spill
Commentary By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – May 3, 2022 Unless you just happen to be living under a rock, most in this Countywill have heard in one form or another that the spill of asphalt bindermix on Highway 199 occurred on this past Thursday between Hiouchi andGasquet, some of it finding its…
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Where are Del Norte County’s Unemployed?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 21, 2022 Driving down Washington Boulevard last Tuesday, March 15th, I noticed agroup of hardy souls out, what appeared to be, protesting something atSutter Coast Hospital. Later, I was corrected in my observation, thatit was not “protesting”, but an informational about working conditionsfaced by nurses and staff while on…
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The Keystone Cops Are Alive And Well At Del Norte County’s Office Of Emergency Services
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 21, 2022 One now would have had to have been in a progressive vacuum chamber notto know that a volcano erupted near Tonga, a tiny island group in theSouth Pacific, 5400 miles away from the West Coast of the United Statesand generated a Tsunami. It was…
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Fast Food That Is No Longer Fast, Nor Cheap
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – December 24, 2021 For the past month or so, I have been on the road so to speak, travelingmostly in Oregon, Washington and Northern California. One of the regularcosts of time and money, are finding places to eat while traveling. Since the Pandemic reared its ugly…
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A Year Now And How Has The Legacy Fared?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – December 20, 2021 Most in this community are unaware that Del Norte County’s foray intotemporary housing for the homeless has passed its first year ofexistence. So, how is that going? Princess Heather Snow, as we mustrefer to her due to her lofty status in Del Norte County,…
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WHO CARES? I CARE
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – November 28, 2021 Back in the days when I worked as a Correctional Officer, I can remember getting a new job that required counting the inmates throughout the night. It is a rule that inmates’ windows and cell doors be free from covering because you must be able to…
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More Merry Holidays From Dr. Stutz
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – November 4, 2021 Hot off the lips of our very own clown in a doctor’s coat, Dr. AaronStutz, the annual Christmas Light Parade will be allowed to graceCrescent City’s streets this year, masking required….. The mancontinues his reliance on masking and vaccines, neither of which haveproven to be…
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Crescent City’s Own “Karen” Speaks!
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – October 27, 2021 Clearly there is a pattern that is emerging in the United States thathas found its way into Del Norte County and even into the city limits ofCrescent City. What is it one might ask, and the answer will be foundin the recent broadcast of a…