Category: Board of Supervisors
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14 Days to comment on BOS budget starting September 12th
By Donna Westfall – September 5, 2017 – According to County Administrative Officer (CAO), Jay Sarina, the budget process is opened to public hearings because the final budget has to balanced. It can be done through projections or actual changes that will be made. They look at individual department requests. They look at annual…
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Supervisor Berkowitz headed to Washington D.C.
By Donna Westfall – August 29, 2017 – Del Norte County Supervisor Bob Berkowitz announced at the last board of supervisors meeting that he will be going to Washington D.C. this September in order to advocate for the county’s policy agenda. At the meeting Berkowitz said, “My priority will be advocating for funding for the…
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Oxford House in Name Only
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – August 14, 2017 – It appears that Del Norte Counties Department of Health and Human Services in now fully invested in the enabling business with the recent authorization of the contract which along with the one for Oxford House Beachside has now perverted the most basic tenant of the Oxford…
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A Tale of Two Newspapers
By Donna Westfall – August 13, 2017 – Two newspapers serve our metropolitan area, The Curry Coastal Pilot, run by Scott Graves and the Del Norte Triplicate run by Robin Fornoff. It seems that mission of those two newspapers could not be more different. Almost all of the editorials by the Pilot’s Scott Graves seem…
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Did BOS Chairman Howard and Sup. Cowan flunk ethics training?
By Donna Westfall – August 10, 2017 – Some people are really good at chairing meetings and then there are those that are not. Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, (BOS) Chris Howard gets classified as really bad at handling meetings particularly when it comes to holding his fellow supervisors accountable for their lack of…
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Airport Service to Nowhere – Finigan’s Folly?
By Donna Westfall – August 9, 2017 – Could things get any worse? Alaska based PenAir announced they’ve filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and want to stop servicing Crescent City. Founded in 1955, it is the oldest family-owned airline in the United states with 700 employees serving 25 destination. All, but the essential Air Service (EAS)…
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Sup. 2nd District Supervisor, Lori Cowan: Oxford House deal scam or legit?
By Donna Westfall – July 14, 2017 – On the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayer’s Association agenda last night, July 13th, was Agenda Item #5: “Discuss whether or not to continue to endorse the recall against Sup 2nd District, Lori Cowan.” The Board of Directors thought that the point had been made about her self-serving,…
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Is Supervisor 2nd District, Lori Cowan hiding something?
By Donna Westfall – July 11, 2017 Half-Way Houses – it can be a good place to help those transitioning off drugs and alcohol. Did you know that on today’s Board of Supervisors agenda was item #11; to pay $40,000 a year to house up to 11 females at 230 E. Lauff, Crescent City? On…
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More About Fornoff Pettiness
By Samuel Strait – July 9, 2017 – Rebuttal to comment by WTF to article Triplicate Editor Whines Again published on July 6, 2017. WTF, I am sorry that you are confused. Perhaps if you read the editorial in the Triplicate mentioned at the beginning of my piece things will be clearer (“My View: $38,000…