Category: This Weeks News
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SUPERVISOR DARRIN SHORT HIDES CONTAMINATED WATER
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…
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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: TSUNAMI LANES & Family Entertainment Center
By Jaime Yarbrough – March 28, 2023 Bowling has returned to Crescent City!! BOWLING? The earliest record in the origin of Bowling comes from the ancient Egyptians about 5,200 BC. While the origin of the modern game of bowling originated in Germany as a religious ceremony with Martin Luther. It first arrived in America @1818…
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Take The Time
Opinion Piece By Angry Old American – March 28, 2023 I hope every citizen of Del Norte County takes the time to read Linda Sutter’s report on the Board of Supervisor’s Meeting. Not that I expect most of the lazy shirkers to do so. In Del Norte County, the extent of civic involvement consists of…
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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS –
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…
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Decreased or NO Value
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. …
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Del Norte Republicans Participate in the Clean California Community Day
Crescent City – On Saturday, March 25th, along northbound Highway 101, beginning at Parkway Drive, you may have seen men and women wearing hardhats and vests. The Del Norte Republicans participated in a statewide effort to clean up California one segment at a time. The CalTrans sponsored event, Clean California Community – Spring into Action,…
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Sheriff Scott’s Dilemma
Commentary by Samuel Strait – March 27, 2023 Things could be worse for the Del Norte County’s Sheriff, as we haverecently learned the Fresno County sheriff is dealing with the fall outof having a local resident of Fresno, California being arrested andbooked for the tenth time in the last thirty one days. Talk about afrequent…
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By all means, let’s talk about ‘junk fees’
By Jon Coupal – March 26, 2023 In last month’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden chose to spend an inordinate amount of time on matters that most Americans don’t care about. Not much was said about the important issues of border security, inflation, crime, or China’s surveillance balloon that traversed over the…
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Political reform for some but not for all
By Jon Coupal – March 24, 2023 Over the years, this column has exposed the myriad ways that the California Legislature enacts laws, not for the public benefit, but to cement progressive political power with one-party rule. A lawsuit filed last week in the Sacramento Superior Court illuminates yet another example. A coalition of business…