Category: Board of Supervisors

Commentary and Opinion By Branden Bieber – May 12, 2023 Catering to a Welfare County, Del Norte County Board of Supervisors (BOS) continue to prioritize homelessness, substance abuse, and Government mandated mental illness diagnoses.  Approving  12 Items during the 5-9-2023 BOS meeting, board members continue to devalue the community.  Without the ability to recognize their…

Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – May 11, 2023 Another meeting, the May 9th version of the 5-0 Club and growing localgovernment on display with some rather unique observations about how ourBoard of Supervisors manage to increase spending without the obligatoryfour fifths requirement.  Nothing like true shiftiness in localgovernment spending practices, but we will…

Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – May 9, 2023 During Tuesday’s, May 9th Board Of Supervisor’s meeting there will be an attemptby Supervisors Short and Howard to sell the County’s citizenry on theidea of resurrecting the decade long defunct Tri-Agency in order tobreath life into the latest “get rich scheme”, off shore wind power. Before…

Commentary and opinion by Samuel Strait – April 27, 2023 Ahh, the serious business of Del Norte County government trundles onunimpeded by the absence of it’s leader Darren Short, the sniffles weare being told.  But never fear, faithful readers, the show went onwithout even the faintest illusion that this body was the servant of thepeople…

Commentary by Samuel Strait – April 15, 2023 Yes, that’s right, sixty vehicles shortly to be in the stable ofvehicles assigned to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Athinking person, seemingly vacant on the County’s Board of Supervisors,might wish to inquire whether or nor DHHS even had sixty employees andwhat would the Department…

Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – March 30, 2023 It was quite a show at the March 28th meeting of the local Board ofSupervisor’ bimonthly event.  While in this case the Board attempted toact at least somewhat like a governing entity, some decisions are justplain beyond their collective abilities. Nothing to be ashamed of…

Commentary and Opinion By Linda Sutter – March 29, 2023 At Tuesday’s, March 28th Board of Supervisors meeting Chairman Darrin Short wore a smirk on his face the entire time he was alerted to arsenic contamination as well as other metals found leaking into the headwaters of Rowdy Creek caused from abandoned mines. A gentlemen…

Commentary and Opinion By Linda Sutter – March 27, 2023 Let’s talk about the consent agenda for the Tuesday, March 28th, Board of Supervisor meeting. Especially since Chairman Darrin Short wants to hide a few things in this particular spot without public comment.  #2 on the Consent Agenda wants to give all the social workers…

By Branden Bieber – March 27, 2023 Tuesday’s March 28th Board of Supervisors Agenda will not disappoint Del Norte County residents who promote decreasing the standard of living in Del Norte County.  Besides writing letters of recommendation, the Board displays an inability to promote any action other than what’s sanctioned through Sacramento’s Legislative long arm. …