Category: Del Norte County
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Supervisor Gitlin responds to RECALL notice
By Donna Westfall – June 18, 2018 – On June 12th, a Certified Letter was received by Sup. Gitlin containing the Notice of Intention to Circulate Recall Petition mailed by Jesse Davis, the former Chair of the Cannabis Working Group and advocate for the recall. Also included in the Certified Letter were the first 20…
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Recall smells fishy!
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – June 13, 2018 – Something smells very fishy about the recall effort against Supervisor Bob Berkowitz. Jesse Davis, the Vice Chairman of the Cannabis Working Group has mailed a notice of recall against Berkowitz. Last I looked, Jesse Davis lived in McKinleyville, so what’s he doing in Del Norte…
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ANOTHER trip to Japan
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – June 10, 2018 – Another trip to Japan for our Chairman, Chris Howard, and Mayor, Blake Inscore. Yawn! I guess both men haven’t had enough vacation time in the land of the rising sun and the Japanese are tired of footing the bill. What is this, third time around?…
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Anger over the ill conceived Harbor “bed tax”
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – June 9, 2018 – It has been several weeks since I came face to face with the effort to put a bed tax on November’s ballot to support the financial misadventures of the current Harbor Commission. I can remember at the time when I gave a rather curt “NO”…
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Final Election Results for June 5th Primary and other votes
By Donna Westfall – June 8, 2018 – Earlier this week, I called Congressman Jared Huffman’s office to ask him to vote YES on Pres. Trump’s first rescissions package to cut nearly $15 billion in wasteful government spending. Today was the vote. It passed 210-206. Huffman voted NO. November 2018 propositions: The gas tax was passed…
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The Latest Election Results Are In
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – June 6, 2018 – First the good news. Measure A passed with 63.88% of the vote. Term limits shall be enacted for the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors. The term for office will be limited to three terms. Now the other news: Both Chris Howard and Gerry Hemmingsen…
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Interview with Supervisorial Candidate Ron Phillips
By Samuel Strait – June 4, 2018 – It now has come down to the last roundup before this year’s June primary of “Conversations with Sam”, on KFUG, the radio program’s series of interviews with challengers for the Del Norte County Supervisors races. I have had the opportunity to spend some time with each of…
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The Del Norte Triplicate & Dem’s latest manufactured issue
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – June 2, 2018 – I think it was about a week ago that I received this year’s Slate advertising recommending which candidates to vote for in the coming June 5th election. Its life span, the flyer’s, was measured in minutes in my house before it took up residence in the old…
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Dave Mason Interview
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 30, 2018 – It has been sometime since I’ve had any faith that my current representative for District #4 was of any value for the citizens of Del Norte County. He has made the claim that he must be doing something right as he has had no challengers in…
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What’s the truth about candidates missing the youth forum?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 25, 2018 – As I prepared to go on air for my weekly program “Conversations with Sam”, KFUG 101.1 FM from 3 to 4 pm every Sunday, I found myself embroiled in the midst of a conversation of another sort between Mr. Jake Smith, my guest interview for the segment, and station…