Category: This Weeks News
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5th District Supervisor Succumbs to Cancer
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – March 3, 2022 Bob Berkowitz passed away, Tuesday, March 2nd. The 5th District Del Norte County Supervisor succumbed to cancer. He was 81. He leaves behind his wife, Bonnie Berkowitz. I served with Supervisor Berkowitz for one term when he was elected in 2016. Bob successfully…
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HOW ABOUT SOME PPP?
By Linda Sutter – March 3, 2022 Awe our federal government. So kind and generous they are right? Yes, so what is PPP? Paycheck Protection Program loans that were given to compensate workers while laid off during Covid. Yet workers who were laid off received very good unemployment benefits. This was quite the gig for…
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Its Amazing
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait There are times for awhile now that I find myself continually amazed atwhat people can be made to believe so fervently that it often resemblesa cult like religion. There is no rational to their beliefs, no thoughtprocess, not even the slightest hint that what they believe may not evenbe…
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A National Outlier
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – March 2, 2022 Newsom has extended the school mask mandate through March 11. Because why not give California kids a couple more weeks of pointless misery. Meanwhile, as CalMatters reports, all the obsessive new vaccine bills would make California “an outlier among states.” You can see the full list here; as…
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What the West should do now to help Ukrainians on the battlefield
Picture Credit to npr.org Article credit to Foundation for Defense of Democracies – March 1, 2022 Ryan Brobst | Research Analyst Bradley Bowman | CMPP Senior Director John Hardie | Research Manager and Research Analyst Jack Sullivan | Communications and Research Associate As Russian President Vladimir Putin escalates his invasion designed to topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government, Kyiv is pleading for…
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ATTENTION: VOTERS!
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – March 1, 2022 Attention: Voters in Smith River, North River, Hiouchi and Gasquet. You have a once in four-year-cycle opportunity to remove arguably the most partisan, self-serving, least qualified candidate for the Del Norte Board of Supervisors…Chris Howard has submitted candidate papers seeking his third term…
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Crisis in Ukraine
By Dan Stein – March 1, 2022 President Biden will be giving the State of the Union (SOTU) address to Congress in the midst of a potential humanitarian crisis of biblical proportions brought on by Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Vladmir Putin has threatened the use of nuclear weapons if any NATO nation tries to…
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Statement on Russian Invasion
By Congresswoman Lauren Boebert – March 1, 2022 Putin has been emboldened by Joe Biden’s destructive policies and weak leadership. By killing the Keystone pipeline on day one and lifting sanctions on the Nord Stream Two Pipeline last May, Biden has allowed Russia to weaponize its energy on the world stage. Dangerously, Europe is now…
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The Local Teachers And Their Union Lament
Commentary and Opinion by Samuel Strait – March 1, 2022 It is often said that parents should think of their children’s welfarebefore they think of their own. For most parents that is the case. Through thick and thin, their children’s welfare is upper most in theirminds. Throughout society, a young person holds a special place in…
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PPP Loans, Good Idea, Or Not?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – February 28, 2022 One of the more brilliant ideas that has occurred over the past twoyears of the Pandemic came in the form of the Paycheck ProtectionProgram from the Small Business Administration of the FederalGovernment. Billed as a way for small businesses of 500 employees, (yes500 employees…