Category: Board of Supervisors
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Th5 5-0 Club, Changes, But No Real Differences
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 17, 2023 As we move into the month of March and the local Board of Supervisorsmet for the first time in the month, the honeymoon is over and thegovernment keeps getting more expensive, larger, and less responsive tothe actual needs of its citizens. It is almost as if it…
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“A Real Del Norter”
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 14, 2023 There once was a time in the not too distant past when storms of evengreater magnitude as has happened to begin the 2023 calendar year wereshrugged off as relatively “normal” weather events in Del Norte County. So often ten inches of rain in a four day period…
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5-0 Club With No Definitive Change
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 2, 2023 Another Board of Supervisor’s meeting in Del Norte County and nothingreally changes. Board Chair Darren Short must have not ingested his“stupid pills” prior to this meeting and managed to successfullynavigate the two hour session with only a few minor insertions of footin mouth. Otherwise aside from his…
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Looks Like The Chickens Are Coming Home To Roost
Commentary by Samuel Strait The fiscal future for California by all indicators is looking ratherbleak. Spending for the past nearly five years has become akin to thatof a “drunken sailor” with no end it sight. Governor “empty suit”Newsom and Sacramento’s one party legislators have taken a wrecking ballto the State’s financial health in a way…
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Homelessness
Opinion By Samuel Strait – February 17, 2023 Recently I attended the local Board of Supervisors meeting, Tuesday,February 14th, and dutifully wrote a piece for the Crescent City Times giving myimpressions of said meeting. As usual, there is often much more to sayabout certain decisions made by the Board, likely as not the decisionwas a…
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The 5-0 Club With Some Dissension In The Ranks
Commentary by Samuel Strait – February 15, 2023 It is not often that the Board of Supervisors have anything but aspotless record of wall-to-wall affirmation in a Board meeting, but thisis what passes for one. In the current version of County government inaction there were times when members of the Board were not ear-to-ear injoint…
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Interview with District 5 Supervisor: DEAN WILSON
By Donna Westfall – February 14, 2023 Last month, Supervisor Dean Wilson spent an hour with our staff answering questions and discussing the state of affairs in Del Norte County. Since the latest brouhaha in the Board of Supervisors chambers centers around the “Consent Agenda,” we started there. YES. It’s not realistic to lump so…
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DO YOU THINK IT’S OKAY? The Del Norte County Board of Supervisors Do
By Investigative Reporter, Linda Sutter – February 1, 2023 * Do you think it is ok that a male foster parent from Nigeria shows a 12 year old foster girl how to insert tampons? Del Norte Board of Supervisors who rubber stamp the consent agendas for the Health and Human Social Services does. * Do…
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5-0 Club Continues To Stumble
Commentary By Samuel Strait – January 28, 2023 It is not often where one put in charge of things has so manifestlyexhibited and in such a short time displayed his obvious lack of abilityto occupy that leadership role. For Darren Short, newly elected to beDel Norte County’s Chairman of the Board, his lapses and mistakescontinue…
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DEL NORTE FOSTER CARE PROGRAM – YOU BETTER SIT DOWN FOR THIS ONE
By Linda Sutter – January 27, 2023 If you were to go to a Board of Supervisors meeting and listen to the Director of Social Services you would think they are all that is good. Unfortunately, they could not be any further from the truth. Lila Honahni places kids in foster homes. She is known…