Category: This Weeks News
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TWO DAY BUDGET WORKSHOP
By Linda Sutter – September 22, 2022 Sue Masten and Valerie Starkey were the only Supervisors who had the fortitude to conduct a Budget Workshop for the public. The rest of the supervisors showed their true intentions of ignoring how defective this county is and why it is. There was only one other public member…
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Measure “S”, The City’s Wants Before Taking Care Of Its Needs
Commentary By Samuel Strait – September 23, 2022 It is pretty normal for the City Fathers to look after their “wants”before taking care of the City’s “needs”. Nothing like posturing beforethe voting public to inflate one’s head even larger than some on theCity’s Council are already carrying above their shoulders. It is akinto wishing for…
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County politicians ponder prodigious pup pound problem
By Roger Gitlin – September 22, 2022 The county is mulling over a colossal pain at the pound. The Board of Supervisors is contemplating how best to address a dysfunctional, under-funded, problematic animal control department which has for decades been conjoined with the agriculture department. In a word, the relationship is unworkable. The latest attempt…
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The Great American Experiment
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – September 22, 2022 avin Newsom just vetoed a bill I helped pass to expand mental health support for students. This adds insult to injury after all the damage he’s caused. Worst yet, Newsom and his cronies are delaying the release of student test scores from last spring until after the election.…
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Measure “R” Will Come Back To Bite You
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 21, 2022 There is an old saying, that “if you depend on the government to solveall your problems, at some point it will come back to bite you.” So itis with the County’s Measure “R” sales tax increase of one percent,where local residents have been asked to pony up…
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Comeuppance
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – September 21, 2022 Gas prices in California are now $1.75 above the national average. The refusal by Newsom and the Supermajority to pass my gas tax suspension bill is more dumbfounding than ever. Earlier this year we forced several votes on the bill. This led on one occasion to unprecedented chaos on…
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People’s Garden Initiative
By Angry Old American – September 18, 2022 Copyright Angry Old American, September 18th 2022. All Rights Reserved. “People’s Garden Initiative.” It sounds like something conjured up in the 2020 Seattle “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.” Now that the Anarchists are in control of our entire Federal Government, they have the United States Department of Agriculture…
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Today is Constitution Day.
By Donna Westfall – September 17, 2022 On this day in 1787, the United States Constitution was adopted when delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in Philadelphia. After 235 years one has to wonder if President Biden will obliterate the constitution by the end of his term. While public schools can determine what…
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The 5-0 Club, Or Rather The Robots Meet Again
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 16, 2022 It has almost become a carefully orchestrated performance when theCounty’s leadership meets every other Tuesday at 10:00 am. So carefullychoreographed and artificial that one wonders who, exactly is runningthe show. As much as there was expressed dissension in the ranks bySupervisor Starkey and Masten, when it came…
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Wins for Sanity
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – September 15, 2022 Today we’re adding 60 more names to the Champions for Kids directory, bringing the total to 140 school board candidates I’ve endorsed statewide. You can search by district or zip code here. This comes as we’ve gotten another win in the battle for sanity. We forced Newsom to finally back…