Category: Repeal Measure R
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National Volunteer Week – National Volunteer Month
By Donna Westfall – April 25, 2024 Bet you didn’t know that April salutes volunteers. It was 1974 when President Richard Nixon established National Volunteer Week to recognize the thousands and thousands of volunteers that support causes they care about. Recently in the news is our volunteer fire department, community clean-ups, donating blood, help in…
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Vote YES on T and U!
By Branden Bieber – November 4, 202 I was never interested in politics, and always considered myself a moderate of just about everything. Then my sons were deprived of attending public education for not wearing a mask, and Del Norte County published a health ordinance threatening imprisonment for an Unconstitutional mandate. Since November 2021, I…
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Before You Vote
Commentary by Samuel Strait – November 4, 2022 Since Measures T and U qualified for the November Ballot, the City andCounty have issued a steady stream of pleas to voters to maintain theadditional Sales Tax Hike in order for both governments to “maintain”vital services. Now that we have had the increased sales tax collectedfor over…
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Where In The World Is Our Local Republican Leadership?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 26, 2022 I suppose if one intended to follow the lead of the Local RepublicanCentral Committee, one might as well join the Democratic Party, of “BigGovernment” and the higher taxes to pay for it. There does not appearto be much to distinguish them, the Republicans, from Democrats on theissue…
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The Final Lap
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 17, 2022 With a bit more than three weeks before the November 8th mid termelection, candidates and various measures on the ballot are making theirfinal pitch to the public in order to garner the necessary votes to besuccessful. Mailboxes stuffed with flyers, candidate forums, debates,and all the typical political…
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Has Roger Gitlin been duped by the City’s Use of Measure S?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 16, 2022 As much as I respect the opinions of Roger Gitlin in his weekly columnin the Triplicate, he is after all entitled to them, I respectfullydisagree with his latest effort, Eye on Del Norte, “Don’t let some ofthe letters of the alphabet confuse you”. Within the article is…
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Did You Ever Wonder?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – October 14, 2022 After seeing the recent sample ballot for the upcoming Novemberelection, one has to wonder just who is responsible for the descriptionsfound on the ballot for the various Propositions and Measures. Is it anunbiased third party, particularly when who ever writes the ballotmeasures and propositions…
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The 5-0 Club Returns…Whew!
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 12, 2022 We most definitely would not want our local Board of Supervisor’s to go“too” far off of the track; hence, it was with great relief that I amreporting that during the most recent Board Meeting a return to thenorm, 5-0 in the affirmative, how comforting. It is not…
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Bought Gas Or Groceries Lately? Still Think Measures S And R Are A Good Idea?
By Samuel Strait – October 10, 2020 Most of those that think that a growing local government is a “goodthing” remain unmoved by the rate of inflation that this Country isexperiencing. 8.3% was I believe the last figure being reported. Thathardly represents the true nature of the matter when energy and foodremain outside of that…
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To All Those That Continue To Think That Voting NO On Measures T And U In November Is The Right Thing To Do
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 9, 2022 Recently I had the opportunity to talk with a couple of NO on T and Uvoters who spoke about supporting the sales tax increase levied byCounty and City governments. The general impression I gained fromthose conversations is that both governments have worked overtime incasting a picture…