Category: Board of Supervisors
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The Latest Election Results Are In
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – June 6, 2018 – First the good news. Measure A passed with 63.88% of the vote. Term limits shall be enacted for the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors. The term for office will be limited to three terms. Now the other news: Both Chris Howard and Gerry Hemmingsen…
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Interview with Supervisorial Candidate Ron Phillips
By Samuel Strait – June 4, 2018 – It now has come down to the last roundup before this year’s June primary of “Conversations with Sam”, on KFUG, the radio program’s series of interviews with challengers for the Del Norte County Supervisors races. I have had the opportunity to spend some time with each of…
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The Del Norte Triplicate & Dem’s latest manufactured issue
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – June 2, 2018 – I think it was about a week ago that I received this year’s Slate advertising recommending which candidates to vote for in the coming June 5th election. Its life span, the flyer’s, was measured in minutes in my house before it took up residence in the old…
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Dave Mason Interview
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 30, 2018 – It has been sometime since I’ve had any faith that my current representative for District #4 was of any value for the citizens of Del Norte County. He has made the claim that he must be doing something right as he has had no challengers in…
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What’s the truth about candidates missing the youth forum?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 25, 2018 – As I prepared to go on air for my weekly program “Conversations with Sam”, KFUG 101.1 FM from 3 to 4 pm every Sunday, I found myself embroiled in the midst of a conversation of another sort between Mr. Jake Smith, my guest interview for the segment, and station…
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Term Limits for County Supervisors, Ballot Measure A
From Roger Gitlin Facebook Posting, May 24, 2018 – Del Norte County Measure A, Term Limits for County supervisors. Mistruths, Myths and Misleading information on Term Limits pushed from the radical Left: I caught a political ad on local radio recently accusing me ( and Supervisor Bob Berkowitz) of trying to pull a fast one on…
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Another BOS meeting
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 23, 2018 – Wow, I guess I can’t say that anything has really changed in the last year and a half after spending another rather pointless two hours in the company of our five elected officials at the most recent Board of Supervisor’s meeting held Tuesday, May 22nd. I…
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Another endorsement for Jake Smith, Supervisorial Candidate District 3
By Samuel Strait – May 22, 2018 – It has been awhile since my words have graced the pages of the Crescent City Times, but a recent interview on KFUG’s Sunday 3 to 4 pm program “Conversations with Sam”, which featured the challenger for the Supervisor’s seat of District 3, Jake Smith, has me in awe of the…
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What is Community Choice Aggregation?
By Jaime Yarbrough – May 16, 2018 – Community Choice Aggregates (CCA): Wikipedia lists this: CCAs “are local, not-for-profit, public agencies that take on the decision-making role about sources of energy for electricity generation. Once established, CCAs become the default service provider for the power mix delivered to customers. In a CCA service territory, the incumbent utility continues to own and maintain the…