Category: This Weeks News
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Significant Differences between Palo Alto and Del Norte County
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – February 20, 2022 While the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association has been busy organizing and collecting signatures on petitions to repeal taxes there are significant drawbacks in our County when attempting to make changes. Let’s compare another community to ours: Palo Alto citizens are actively fighting against zoning…
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Governor Empty Suit Newsom Unveils SMARTER PLAN
By Samuel Strait – February 20, 2022 Looks like the local crew in Del Norte’s government circles can’t claimall the accolades for promoting the dumbest ideas for governing. Governor “Hair Gel” Newsom is right there with them. In a recentannouncement, Hair Gel has pronounced the answer to all our Pandemicproblems going forward. The SMARTER Plan.…
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Just WHO Then Is The Current Mastermind At The Harbor?
Commentary By Samuel Strait – February 19, 2022 In a recent interview on Crescent City’s very own socialist radiostation, KFUG, Alex Lemus, Huckster of Renewable Energy Capitalannounced that he is not the author of the current plan to create a“Monterey Bay Style” fantasy world out of the Crescent City Harbor. So,who exactly is responsible for…
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The 2022 Reckoning
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – February 19, 2022 Two-thirds of swing voters say Democrats went “too far” in the COVID response. We are in for a reckoning of epic proportions. That reckoning just arrived for three school board members in San Francisco. It will next be visited upon the city’s district attorney, who faces his…
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Oh Where Oh Where Is There Someone To Vote For?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – February 19, 2022 It looks like the kick off for the 2022 election marathon has commencedwith the opening round of aspirants turning in their paperworkannouncing their candidacy. The preliminary round of sparring whichincludes the offices of Supervisors for District’s 3 and 4, the sheriff,the district attorney, tax…
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And The Virtue Signaling Continues
Commentary By Samuel Strait – February 19, 2022 I haven’t spent a lot of time in Crescent City lately, as localinflation and a higher sales tax have sent me North for the most part totry and squeeze a few more dollars out of my self imposed budget. Itwas therefore, some what humorous to see the…
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The Downside of Sales Taxes
By Linda Sutter – February 19, 2022 Remember when former Chief Administrative Officer, Jay Sarina, was quoted as saying, Measure R funds will not be used for salaries and benefits? Let’s spend a little time on sales taxes with new news. Had the advertising for both city and county included, “We plan to hire new…
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Thoughts about Measure “R” with Chris Howard and Neal Lopez
By Branden Bieber – February 14, 2022 Don’t expect anything other than disappointment when listening to our local leaders. They are either complacent in the degradation of our community, or too ignorant to offer real solutions to the growing list of problems in Del Norte County. The host of your meeting (Chris Howard) and County…
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WHY TRANSPARENCY MATTERS
By Linda Sutter – February 14, 2022 Every year, taxpayers in California pay out considerable portions of their income to the State. The citizens of California do this with the faith that the funds will be used for essential services that improve the communities that they live in. You might be shocked to learn then,…
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What kind of Harbor do you folks want in Crescent City?
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – February 17, 2022 Do you want the Monterey-ization seen below? Hotels, gift shops, restaurants abound. Fishing and vessel repair has long since departed. Monterey is a sea shell of what it once was. OR Do you folks want a viable working Harbor with crab and fish…