Category: Letters to the Editor

The Board of Supervisors meeting this Tuesday, March 11th, starts at 10 a.m.  Supervisor comments will take place between 10 and about 10:20.  I expect some of the Supervisors to discuss Critical Access.  Public comment on the issue will likely start about 10:30.  I will be in surgery, but I will watch the meeting as soon as it is posted on…

I have found there to be too many good ole boys in our governing system, they just seem to do what they want no matter the consequences of who they hurt.  People let it ride like they really do not want to make waves in a situation, to be politically correct.  Well I am a transparent person…

TO: www.crescentcitytimes.com; you have my permission to publish my letter to the Mayor and Councillors of Lethbridge: To the Mayor and City Councillors of Lethbridge, I speak from painful personal experience. As you consider your stand on water fluoridation, please be advised you should have no confidence in the integrity the system that produced the ‘science’ of water…

I have to agree with the hold-out supervisors who want to thoroughly vet the idea of joining in the State of Jefferson movement. There are so many details to consider and I think every single one of them should be explored and all questions answered. I have a few questions of my own concerning the…

  In  a wry  twist  of  historic irony  radioactive winds blow and invisible death approaches our shores from the Land of The Rising Sun. It is reported that a plume of radioactive  water is moving towards Pacific Northwest  beaches  even as you read this . Readings vary of course but there is small  comfort in…

In regards to Katherine Kelly’s article (How Bad is HFSA/Fluoride In The Water Pipes published January 7, 2014), one of our horses who consumed fluoridated water all his life up until 2004 (19 years) had the classic signs of Alzheimer’s.   In 2010, 6 years post his consumption of fluoridated water, we noticed he started acting like…

Please make local readers aware that many of the same problems we are having with Sutter Health have been experienced by other communities where Sutter Health operates. I am a member of the Alameda County Employees Retirement Association. In San Leandro, Sutter Health planned to close the hospital, but in the face of organized community opposition,…

I could hardly believe my eyes when I read how great of job the District Attorneys think they are doing, in Saturday’s opinion section of the Triplicate newspaper. Here is a reality check. The first sentence authored by Lisa Specchio-Wolfe, Anna Marie Padilla, Todd D. Zocchi, and Rebecca Linkous states, “We are responsible for upholding…

A few years ago it was holiday time, I was in my kitchen baking cookies and listening to 94.3 KCRE’s Renee who was encouraging everyone to come down town and experience the magical moment and theme, “Miracle on 3rd street”. I was so jazzed I got into my car and immediately drove downtown. however, the Miracle…

Sat. night Mary and I saw “This is Crescent City” or “….Your Three Minutes Are UP” Excellent, excellent, excellent! It touches every person there who has a personal history.  As the former Del Norte HS graduate, and recently hired, to teach history, enthusiastic first year teacher shares, “You, can’t have a future until you know your past”…