Category: This Weeks News
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How Does Israel Survive?
By Donna Westfall – October 27, 2022 When I look at what Russia is doing to the Ukraine, how China is attacking their Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang, including mass detention, torture, and cultural persecution, or any other large country that violates human rights and freedoms of their citizens or their neighbors, I always…
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FATAL FLAWS: DEL NORTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION; CORRUPTION
By Linda Sutter – October 24, 2022 When the same names appear on documents that demonstrate corruptive practices it tells a story about the integrity of our elected officials, why Del Norte County is an unsuccessful entity, and the unlawful use of Federal and State Money. The Del Norte Economic Development Corporation is a private…
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A new era may soon be on the horizon in Del Norte County
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 26, 2022 Are new faces coming to the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors? Very likely. With the departure of Gerry Hemmingsen, a significant bully influence will be exiting the Flynn Center. Refreshing and hopeful! In District Four, candidates Joey Borges and Patty Adams will…
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Tri-Agency – Try Foolishness
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 25, 2022 Tonight was debt settlement time at the Veterans Hall as the Crescent City Harbor, the Crescent City Council and the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors agreed how to divide a $160,000 bad debt accumulation incurred by the Del Norte Tri-Agency. Here’s the…
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On The Road Day Seven and Eight
By Sam Strait – October 26, 2022 Left Lafayette, Louisiana bright and early for the even brighter lightsof New Orleans. Two hours later we had checked in to our hotel and areon our way to walk the French Quarter. First things first after windingour way through narrow streets to Jackson Square and the prospect offinding…
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Where In The World Is Our Local Republican Leadership?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – October 26, 2022 I suppose if one intended to follow the lead of the Local RepublicanCentral Committee, one might as well join the Democratic Party, of “BigGovernment” and the higher taxes to pay for it. There does not appearto be much to distinguish them, the Republicans, from Democrats on theissue…
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Mandates are on the Ballot
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – October 25, 2022 Last week, the CDC added COVID-19 vaccines to the “recommended immunization schedules” for children. The stakes in the midterm elections are now even higher.\ Importantly, CDC Board Members emphasized their decision is not itself a mandate: “The decision around school entrance for vaccines rests where it did before, which…
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On The Road Day Five And Six
By Samuel Strait – October 24, 2022 Bright and early, after yet another change in plan, we left Socorro, NewMexico for Lincoln County, home of “Billy the Kid”, along with elevenhistorical houses in Lincoln, New Mexico. Shades of the past in the oldwest. Then proceeded on to Roswell, New Mexico, scene of a 1947reported crash…
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Let The Whining Begin
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – October 22, 2022 With November’s election date rapidly approaching, seventeen days forthe City and County’s spin machine to howl every chance they get aboutthe potential loss of funding from a sales tax increase repeal that wasgenerously granted to them by local voters in 2020. For those voting…
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On The Road Day Three And Four
By Sam Strait – October 21, 2022 Sunrise in Tonopah was gorgeous, a small mining town along Highway 95 incentral Nevada, where we ended our second day on the road. While gettinga late start, being able to drive along Nevada’s well maintained andstraight roads allowed us to cruise along at seventy miles an hourdespite the…