Category: This Weeks News
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What was it? Insurrection or ?
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – January 4, 2023 First let’s look at the definition. Insurrection An organized and usually violent act of revolt or rebellion against an established government or governing authority of a nation-state or other political entity by a group of its citizens or subjects; also, any act of engaging in such a revolt. An insurrection…
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Eye on Del Norte: County’s Juvenile Hall is unsustainable. What’s next?
By Roger Gitlin – January 3, 2023 This past October, Del Norte’s Chief Probation Officer, Lonnie Reyman submitted his annual report on the County’s Juvenile Hall. The report is troubling. related to Supervisors and should be closed. Chief Reyman is 100 percent correct. Common sense tells one The Hall should be closed, expediently. The Probation…
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Who is Hakeem Jeffries?
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – January 3, 2023 At 10 am this morning, the House of Representatives opened today’s meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Part of the schedule includes the vote for the new Speaker of the House. If Kevin McCarthy does not make it, could New York Congressman from the 8th District…
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Who is Kevin McCarthy?
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – January 2, 2023 On January 3rd, a new Speaker of the House is to be selected. As many of you already know, Nancy Pelosi was the first woman ever elected to that position. She served far too long in that position with a resounding number of boasts and gaffes.…
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REP. BOEBERT INTRODUCES BILL TO BAN TAXPAYER-FUNDED ABORTIONS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
December 15, 2022 Congresswoman Lauren Boebert introduced a bill to prohibit U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using taxpayer dollars to transport illegal aliens across state lines for abortions. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stated, “The Biden administration is unlawfully using taxpayer money to transport pregnant, illegal…
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Omnibus Spending Bill Does Not Secure the Border, but Further Incentivizes and Enables Illegal Immigration, Charges FAIR
By Federation for American Immigration Reform – December 23, 2022, Washington, D.C. The 117th Congress finally wrapped up business by approving a lame-duck, pork-laden $1.7 trillion spending bill – consisting of more than 4,000 pages that not a single member had the time to read and fully analyze – funding the federal government through the remainder…
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The Lame Duck Congress
By Congressman-Elect – Kevin Kiley – December 29, 2022 I have to admit, I’ve been impatient this month. My term in the Assembly ended on November 30 and I don’t become a Member of Congress until January 3. It’s been frustrating to watch as the lame-duck Congress passed the Obscene Omnibus, a $1.7-trillion, 4,155-page slap-in-the-face…
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HARBOR DISTRICT PIRATES
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – November 20, 2022 Stolen Funds by their Credit Card Use You don’t have to look too far to find out how the Harbor District Misuses Public Funds. The former and current Harbor District Pirates aka, Harbormasters didn’t think they would get caught. But they did. California Public Information Requests…
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On The Road Day Twenty Nine, Thirty, And Thirty One
By Samuel Strait – November 19, 2022 Today is a crisp six degrees Fahrenheit, not something we see inCrescent City very often, but as we ascended the Rocky Mountains inWyoming it got ten degrees cooler. In the meantime Western Nebraskaand the tiny town of Sidney was our beginning for the day. Windy andbreathtakingly chilly, but…