Category: Letters to the Editor
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Victims of Legalized Kidnapping by CPS
I know from experience and study that CPS comes in on maybe 1 complaint, snatches the children away from their parents without investigating the truth. If they can not find anything, they make things up and persuade, bribe, put stuff in the children’s heads, and scare, the children that they have been abused and their…
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THE NUMBERS ARE IN AND THE WINNER IS….ANY HOSPITAL IN OREGON
In January 2014, I was in the Sutter Coast Hospital Emergency Room for four hours. While there I received a Cat Scan, and IV’s for medicine. The staff were great and took great care of me, however; they never produced a diagnosis, let me go home, end of story. I received an invoice of the hospital care provided…
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Taking Back Our Streets
I have never seen anything as blatant as the gangs of criminals roaming the small town streets here, robing, stealing, and intimidating law abiding citizens, believing they have absolute impunity, but I do not blame law enforcement for their existence. Good moral character begins with good parenting, and sadly many just do not get that…
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More Bad News About Fluoride
I read the info on the new study about ADHD and fluoridation. I had not seen that particular article, but I have other articles that agree with that one. It came at a very fortuitous time! My new town of Palatka (Florida) is entertaining the addition of putting fluoride back into the water supply. I got…
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LOCAL D.A. TRIGG SPANKED BY SAN QUENTIN PRISON INMATE
RESPONSE TO MICHAEL LOFTIN’S LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE DEL NORTE TRIPLICATE ON FEBURARY 21, 2015 San Quentin State Prison inmate was right in pointing out that the “good ole boys” shoot now ask questions later are corruptive practices that have been going on far too long here in Del Norte County. Newly elected…
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Core Problems in Crescent City
Believing that I have current expeiences to state the following opinions, and believing that those experiences have given me a glimpse of what is causing core problems in Crescent City and its environs, here it goes. Normal everyday citizens do not feel safe in their homes and in the integrity of local law enforcement. There…
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Questions Remain Over Sutter’s Exclusion of Local Physicians
In an effort to clear up the confusion surrounding the Sutter Health/Anthem Blue Cross/CalPERS Del Norte County EPO health plan, this article provides the history and current status of the plan’s roll out, whereby local physicians not affiliated with Sutter were excluded from the plan. As of now, my office is not a participating provider,…
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Sutter Health – the “You’re Out of Luck” Plan
Has Sutter Health seen the light and adopted a friendlier face ? It might seem so according to a letter sent out to PERS members residing in Del Norte County which outlines a new health care offering to PERS members as a result of collaboration between Sutter Health Corporation and PERS/Anthem/Blue Cross. An open enrollment…
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Questions About Supervisor Committee Assignments
This is my first term as Supervisor. My colleagues on this Board are either long term Del Norte residents, long term Supervisors, or both. One of the most common comments I hear from long term residents is the phrase “good ‘ol boy network.” People tell me that for many years, decisions affecting the future of…
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Whatever Happened to the Missing Mushroom Hunters
Mushroom hunters, Belinda, Daniel Conne and their 25 year old son, went missing in the Gold Beach area back in February 2012. They were found 6 days later by searchers having sustained injuries and mild hypothermia, but had access to plenty of water and kept warm by huddling in a hollowed out tree. Glad to find out…