Category: Repeal Measure R
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Challenging The Status Quo Is Fine, If It Actually Happens
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 8, 2022 In a recent opinion piece in the Triplicate by Kevin Hendrick, “It’sOkay to challenge the status quo”, once again Mr. Hendrick fails tounderstand the dynamics of what actually happens at local Board ofSupervisor meetings. Sad to say his “Progressive” politics which sooften leads him astray was on…
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“Abuse Of Democracy?” What Country Do You Live In Mr. Hendrick?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 6, 2022 It is not often one exposes true ignorance in the local paper, yet Mr.Kevin Hendrick, Chairman of the local Democrat Party, has outdonehimself in his latest opinion “An Abuse of Democracy” piece found in theweekly Triplicate. I am not quite sure what the editor of theTriplicate was…
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Measure “R” Will Come Back To Bite You
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 21, 2022 There is an old saying, that “if you depend on the government to solveall your problems, at some point it will come back to bite you.” So itis with the County’s Measure “R” sales tax increase of one percent,where local residents have been asked to pony up…
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And The Gaslighting Continues
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 13, 2022 One would think after years of declining service and an ever growinggovernment that local voters would tire of promises made and not kept. At some point they would grow weary of the excuses every time money isreceived and squandered on things that make little difference to thosethat government…
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Should Eye on Del Norte weigh in on national politics?
By Roger Gitlin – September 11, 2022 An interested citizen sent me an appreciative email, recently. She suggested and requested I broaden my scope of subject matter to include national and international issues. I thought about it and wondered if Biden, Pelosi (Nancy and Paul), Taiwan, the border, inflation and the beltway should be included or…
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57 Days To Go
By Donna Westfall – September 12, 2022 Changing history. We’re at a turning point in our country’s history once again. We’ve watched as President Biden created government induced inflation starting with the first day of his administration. We’re watched as the recession creeped up slowly but surely. We’ve watched as prices on almost everything increased.…
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Mandates, Are We Tired Of Them Yet?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 2, 2022 As I have been out and about lately, and witnessed first hand that atleast in some parts of California, many people still are of the mindsetthat masking makes some sort of difference in protecting one’s personalhealth from a virus. No doubt, the government, public health and…
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Tales Of A Crescent City Signature Gatherer
Commentary by Samuel Strait – August 30, 2022 It is not often that the powers to be in my life let me loose tointeract with the public, let alone for several days in a row. Such asit is, I have been perched for several hours over the course of the lastseveral days in front of…
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The 5-0 Club Back Together Again
Commentary by Samuel Strait – August 25 2022 One would think that with all five of the current Board of Supervisorspresent it would be a cause for celebration, but no, it appeared to beyet another case of five regular people totally out of their collectivedepth when conducting the County’s business. Over the course of threeand…
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REPEALING MEASURE R
By Linda Sutter – August 12, 2022 The People of Del Norte county struggle to keep roofs over their heads, lights on and food on their table. Measure R created a massive unfunded pension liability instead of doing what the Board of Supervisors led the people to believe, which was repair roads, help law enforcement,…