Category: Board of Supervisors
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Why Won’t Martha McClure Do Her Job?
By Donna Westfall – July 4, 2016 – Del Norte County pays McClure to do a job and represent our interests, not only at the regular board of supervisors meetings, but the multitude of committees that she is assigned to. Unfortunately, ever since the election, no one that I know of has seen or heard…
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No Law North of the Dr. Fine Bridge
By Donna Westfall – July 2, 2016 – If you’ve lived here for any length of time, you’ve heard the saying that “there’s no law North of the Klamath.” Well that saying should be refined further to say “there’s no law North of Dr. Fine Bridge” if the multitude of complaints from citizens from Smith…
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Should Sutter Coast Hospital Pay It’s Fair Share in Property Taxes
Submitted by Roger Gitlin, Supervisor 1st District – June 15, 2016 – Sutter Coast Hospital operates 24 hospitals and other facilities, almost all exclusively in Northern California.. Sutter is a non-profit hospital, but is firmly in the black reporting $10.8 in profits in 2014. Sutter reported $81 million in net revenue on $11 billion in…
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Thoughts on 5th District Race
Submitted by Bob Berkowitz – May 9, 2016 – I want to thank all of you who voted on Tuesday. Voting is a right that we enjoy and it gives you the power to express your feelings in a meaningful way. By voting for Linda Sutter, Terri Colton and me, over 60 percent of you…
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This Is Why Roger Gitlin Needs to Be Re-Elected
By Samuel Strait – June 6, 2016 – Over the past couple of weeks the letters to the editor in the Triplicate regarding current supervisor Roger Gitlin have put me in mind of those seminar callers who call radio programs and trot out the same spiel over and over again in order to establish a…
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Bad Judgment On The Part Of McClure?
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – June 1, 2016 – In the midst of all the other things that have gone wrong for Ms. McClure in the past couple of weeks, two other items of note have come to the surface which speak to her lack of judgement when it comes to the financial health of…
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Failure of the Fourth Estate and our Political Elite as Well
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – May 31, 2016 – Having taken a bit of time to look around in someone else’s local political patch, I’ve come to realize that the kind of things we have unfolding on a regular basis here in Del Norte County have become the norm in politics in rural America and…
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Was David Finigan Involved In A Swampland Scheme?
[cincopa AEIAqg9uDKMO]By Donna Westfall – May 29, 2016 – During the ’60’s and ’70’s, huge advertising campaigns were sweeping the country for the gullible to buy sight-unseen land in Florida. One of the original sellers of swampland in Florida was Charles Ponzi. Of course, it involved fraudulent sales of worthless real estate. During the…
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Gitlin and Clean-Up Crew Have Done It Again
By Donna Westfall – May 29, 2016 – In his steadfast, continual effort to clean-up Del Norte County, Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin, put together volunteers to clean up the Cemetery before Memorial Day. Joining Roger Gitlin, were people from Inter-Faith Council and JUSTSERVE totaling nearly 100 volunteers with weed wackers, steam cleaners and trash…
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Kathryn Murray Does Not Uphold The Constitution
By Donna Westfall – May 26, 2016 – Why would anyone vote for someone that has a track record of obliterating the Constitution and not listening to her constituents? Let’s re-examine Kathryn Murray’s track record before and after she was on the Crescent City, City Council. In 2007: As a member of the public, Kathryn…