Category: This Weeks News
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Blind Trust Not A Good Idea
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – April 25, 2022 We are hopeful someone on the Board will pull an item from the Consent Agenda for discussion at the Tuesday Board of Supervisors meeting. Consent Agenda item #6 calls to hire a psychiatrist (a medical doctor who can treat and prescribe psychotropic and…
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Does Anyone Pay Attention To Masking “Karens” Anymore?
Commentary by Samuel Strait – April 25, 2022 With the Centers for Disease Control’s masking mandate for publictransport struck down recently by a federal judge in Florida, doesanyone really wish to go back to the way things have been for the pasttwo plus years? Seems that at least some in the American populationwish that everyone…
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Calm Before the Storm
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – April 24, 2022 This was an action-packed last week at the Capitol. Next week will be as well. I’m spending the weekend knocking on doors, talking to voters. Here’s a brief overview of the legislative deadlines. And here are the worst remaining bills: AB 2223 is in the Appropriations Committee. Watch my discussion…
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Princess Tea Party Provided by Tsunami Cheer
By Linda Sutter – April 23, 2022 Emma-lee Byrge and Rexy Nusser display their princess gowns at the Princess Tea Party held at the Del Norte Fairgrounds. There were a total of 87 princesses at this tea party in an effort to raise funds for Tsunami Cheer who received an invitation to participate in the…
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Is Local Government Our Biggest Problem?
Opinion and Commentary by Samuel Strait I spent much of this past Saturday afternoon in the company of a groupof local individuals that clearly feel local government in its currentform is a larger problem than the issues that Del Norte County currentlyface. Could that be even remotely possible one might ask? How couldlocal government possibly…
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Do You Agree With Sen. Diane Feinstein?
Opinion By Donna Westfall – April 23, 2022 After being a lifelong Democrat, we moved to Crescent City in 2007 and received a notice that the wastewater treatment plant was going to be upgraded and expanded. By the end of 2007, I knew enough about that project to realize not all was well with the…
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Our Measure R Funds at Work?
By Linda Sutter – April 22, 2022 Deplorable unsafe conditions! The pictures you are looking at is one cell in the Del Norte County Jail. The inmate who resides in this cell is mentally ill. In the pictures you can clearly see approximately 20 milk cartons, and 10 trays which implies this has been built…
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Republican, Rather Demorat Light Makes Their Endorsements
Commentary by Samuel Strait – April 22, 2022 I will try not to bore you with the details, but our local RepublicanCentral Committee “in secret”, has made known in a flyer who they wishedfor the voters to cast their ballots for in June’s primary. It willlikely take some time for local voters to sift through…
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The Minor League Clown Show Is In Session
Opinion and Commentary by Samuel Strait – April 22, 2022 I don’t often comment on the doings of the City’s Council as I haven’t,up until recently, been all that interested in reporting on the minorleague version of the “clown show” in Del Norte County. In any event,I’ve taken in the last few meetings just to…
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Del Norte County GOP
Opinion Piece by Linda Suter – April 21, 2022 Corruption doesn’t fall far from the tree. Today in the mail the Republican Party endorsed three people who are running for Board of Supervisors. Chris Howard in District 3, Patty Adams for District 4, and David Jones for District 5. The Chair of the Republican Central…