Category: homeless
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Far From Over
The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Crescent City Times.com By Kevin Kiley – November 26, 2025 The culture of corruption in Sacramento is being exposed, and Newsom is at the center of it. Following the arrest of his Chief of Staff for 23 felonies, the…
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California’s Day in Court
By Kevin Kiley – April 22, 2024 I just left the U.S. Supreme Court, where I’ve asked the Court to restore the ability of our local communities to clear homeless encampments from public spaces. Based on this morning’s oral argument, the Court appears poised to do just that. (See my reaction outside the courthouse.) There are 9 times more…
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Divided WE FALL!
Opinion By Branden Bieber – December 13, 2023 The Del Norte Board of Supervisors start each meeting with the “pledge of allegiance,” yet they fail torealize their influence or the words they recite. As constituents in Del Norte the ideals of LIBERTY and JUSTICE are only a mirage. We may feel the responsibility to work…
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Secrecy and Subterfuge
By Kevin Kiley – August 18, 2023 The scandal surrounding the Chinese bioengineering lab operating secretly in California continues to grow. It turns out the lab – which was oozing with COVID, E. Coli, malaria, and other pathogens – was kept from the public for nine months after its discovery. An official with Fresno County…
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Is Housing The Homeless Really A Solution?
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait There is an old saying that when you fail to solve your problem one way,it makes no sense to try and solve it by using the same way over andover again then expect a different outcome. California has employedbillions of dollars just in the past three years in a…
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The buck passing never stops in California state government
By Jon Coupal – June 14, 2023 President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk that read “The Buck Stops Here.” In an interview with legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow, he explained that, as president, he was responsible for all the decisions of his administration and wouldn’t “pass the buck” to someone else. In…
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The Failure Of Trying To House The Homeless
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 7, 2023 As we have been endlessly told by “Homeless Experts”, once you get themhoused, then is the time to deal with the issues that found themhomeless. So here we are decades later and the problem continues toworsen. Recent “Point and Time” surveys locally have shown inspite ofattempting to…
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Homeless Rights
By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, February 20th, 2023. All Rights Reserved. Throughout California, Oregon, and Washington State the Homeless have been empowered with extensive legally protected rights. Homeless rights exist independent of any related personal responsibilities required of citizens in their host communities. Can Rights exist in the absence of Responsibility? This…
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Del Norte County’s First Homeless Gulag
Commentary by Samuel Strait – February 21, 2023 It may lack the guard towers and the barbed wire, but the Del NorteCounty Board of Supervisors recently gave the nod to Alison Ramsey ofTrue North Organizing for the construction of a pallet house “village”to house the County’s homeless population, pending receipt of $7 to $8million dollars…
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Homelessness
Opinion By Samuel Strait – February 17, 2023 Recently I attended the local Board of Supervisors meeting, Tuesday,February 14th, and dutifully wrote a piece for the Crescent City Times giving myimpressions of said meeting. As usual, there is often much more to sayabout certain decisions made by the Board, likely as not the decisionwas a…