Category: Board of Supervisors
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Law Enforcement is Under Siege
By Roger Gitlin – April 18, 2021 – EYE ON DEL NORTE No reasonable person would dispute being a Police Officer is a difficult way to make a living… Quite the contrary. Years back I recall listening to the late Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates state, ” Law enforcement is tough, dirty work but…
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SHERIFF HOLDS UP DECISION AT SUPERVISORS MEETING?
By Linda Sutter – April 14, 2021 The Board of Supervisors meeting held on April 13, 2021 had at least one questionable request from the Sheriff’s department. On agenda #5: Approve and authorize the Del Norte County Sheriff to enter into the Safekeeper Agreement C5609989 with the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) to house an…
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Should City and County Consolidate?
By Jeff McCaddon Copyright Jeff McCaddon, March 26th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. Consolidation of City and County governments is not a new or extremist idea; such mergers have been done throughout the United States, and in many other Countries. Our own California State Capitol of Sacramento consolidated with Sacramento County in 1974. Such government mergers…
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Poor Mitch Hanna and Sutter Coast Hospital
By Roger Gitlin – March 27, 2021 The March 23 post in the Lost Coast Outpost about the tragic psychiatric impact on Del Norte County impacting Emergency Room services at our local hospital was revealed at a recent Board of Supervisors Meeting. Mr. Hanna was boo hooing his problems to the Supervisors, beseeching the Board…
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Let’s play Devil’s Advocate about Federal Funding for Last Chance Grade
Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 27, 2021 I don’t know how many viewers caught the tail end of a recent Board ofSupervisor’s meeting, March 23, 2021, most likely not many. In anyevent, in a discussion between Board members and our lobbyist, GregBurns, the topic of renewed interest by Congress to reintroduce“Earmarks”, now referred…
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Boston Tea Party
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 25, 2021 – picture credit to history.com I suspect that men like Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Molineuxwould be appalled by what is happening in this country today. Don’tknow who they are? On December 16. 1773, these three men and aboutsixty others moved from a meeting…
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What’s an escape clause?
By Donna Westfall – March 18, 2021 How can we trust our government officials when they repeat the same stupid mistakes ….that cost (us) taxpayer’s money? In January 2019, the local tax association had under NEW BUSINESS the issue of a $160,000+ penalty for a contract Heather Snow, Director of Health & Human Resources negotiated…
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Has the Board of Supervisors made yet another costly mistake? Part 3 from Eye on Del Norte
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 10, 2021 Has the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors made yet another verycostly mistake? Over the past couple of months, Eye on Del Norte hasmade looking into the way the County goes about planning and acquiringfuture needs for office space. The process normally begins withnotifications being…
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Cronyism alive and well in Del Norte County
By Roger Gitlin for Eye on Del Norte – March 9, 2021 Cronyism is alive and well in Del Norte County. For those unaware of the definition of cronyism in government, it is the practice of partiality in rewarding jobs and contracts to trusted friends, especially in politics and among politicians. The opposite of cronyism…
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What Rikuzentakata, Again?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 It has been a while since Rikuzentakata, Japan was news worthy in the local area, so when it was recently a topic of conversation, the first thingthat came to mind is that Chris Howard and Blake Inscore must be homesick for a bit of international…