Category: This Weeks News
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Board of Supervisors MEETING 1-24-23
By Editor, Donna Westfall – January 24, 2023 BOS meetings can take hours. Instead of sitting for hours at the bi-monthly Board of Supervisors meeting, you can watch the video of each meeting. They are available on YouTube.com. By the way, there were 14 items on the consent agenda down by four from the January…
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Eye on Del Norte: A failure to communicate
By Roger Gitlin – January 25, 2023 What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate. Those profound words were uttered by Strother Martin playing the role of Captain in the 1967 Paul Newman-starring classic movie, Cool Hand Luke. That lack of communication played out in an unfortunate and ugly incident where public speaker Branden…
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On A Mission
By Congressman Kevin Kiley – January 24, 2023 Today I spoke with Joe Biden at the White House. I pointedly asked the President to make good on a promise he made to my constituents in 2021. I’ll be able to share more details soon. If I’d had time, I might also have given him some…
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Point in Time Count
By Donna Westfall – January 23, 2023 I spoke with Roy Jackson this morning. He’s the Housing and Services Manager at Health and Human Services. He let me know the Point in Time homeless count will be taking place this Wednesday, January 25th at the Crescent City Recreation Hall, located at 1005 H Street, from…
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Coca Cola, Orange Juice and the FDA
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – January 22, 2023 When you think of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), what is your first thought? I thought they were responsible for our health and safety in a number of areas like medicines and foods. Come to find out there’s a class action lawsuit in New York…
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TOO CRABBY!
By Branden Bieber – January 20, 2023 Can it be true, our local crabbing fleet is only receiving $2.25 per/lb. The price of nearly “everything” has gone up, except the value of this West Coast delectable. Despite the quality of crab, or the size of the crab biomass, it is apparent Government is regulating the…
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No EOA For Del Norte Ambulance, What Was The BOS Thinking?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – January 20, 2023 For three decades Del Norte Ambulance (DNA) has been in service to this Countyas a first responder to all of the County’s health care emergencies. During that entire run of thirty plus years there have been severalambulance companies who have entered into the bidding to supplant DNA,but…
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Abolish the IRS after 161 Years?
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – January 18, 2023 With new Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Joe Biden got’s big trouble. Her first week in office she has accomplished this: How about the meddling hands of big government with taxes on nearly everything. If it’s not federal it’s state taxes. But getting back to…
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Eye on Del Norte: Freedom to Walk Act risks pedestrian safety
By Roger Gitlin – January 18, 2023 Pedestrian safety just took a turn for the worse, January 1, thanks to Assemblymember Jim Wood and State Senator Mike McGuire. Governor Newsom signed another silly bill AB2147 into law, last year. Entitled the misleading Freedom to Walk Act, the Bill authored by Assemblymember Philip Ting (D-San Francisco)…
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DEL NORTE COMMUNITY FOOD COUNCIL [DNATL]
By Jaime Yarbrough – January 17, 2023 Last Wednesday 11 January about 13 people got together at the Family Resource Cente4, 494 Pacific Ave, at 5:15 – 7 PM for the first meeting of 2023. On the agenda for this meeting was: The DNATL Community Food Council is a group of individual residents and agency representatives who…