Category: This Weeks News
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The Year of Accountability
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – January 20, 2022 Voting is underway in the Recall of three SF board members who refused to open schools. 2022 is the year of accountability. Even San Francisco’s liberal Mayor and Senator support the Recall. Throughout California, I’ve met many lifelong Democrats who are voting differently this year. Some things,…
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Crescent City Harbor Scam
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – January 20, 2022 Can the Crescent City Harbor survive yet another self-inflicted and serving-serving scam? The legacy of the Harbor Commission is a sad, dishonest and unscrupulous saga which brings great shame and disrepute to Del Norte County. New leadership with Harbor president Rick Shepherd, Secretary/…
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DNUSD, The Dumbing Down Of Del Norte County
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 20, 2022 It seems like a half century ago that some people in this Countrynoticed the affect that public education was having on the Americanpeople. This awareness spawned a host of books and articles giving eachauthor’s reasons why this was happening, not that it might behappening. …
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Prop 47 Changes Considered
By Linda Sutter – January 18, 2022 California Lawmakers are rethinking Prop 47 to increase penalty for repeat shop lifters. Originally voters voted in Prop 47 increasing the amount to $950.00 making it a misdemeanor. When that happened the misdemeanor wasn’t counted as a crime and wasn’t reported as such making California crime statistics low.…
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Truancy
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 18, 2022 – picture credit to education.jhu.edu In California every school age child is required to attend school. Itcan take on many forms, but the most common is the public schoolsystem. One of the most persistent problems in public education beyondsatisfactory performance for school age children…
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The Height of Delusion
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – January 18, 2022 Gavin Newsom has declared California “a model for the nation.” This is the height of delusion. His ruinous policies are a model for what the nation must avoid. Delusion is probably too kind of a word. The other day, Newsom claimed we’d have “40,000 more Californians dead”…
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What Do We Get For $55 Million?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 17, 2022 Most people with children are well aware of the fact that our localschool district has not performed well for decades. Most do not knowthat the Del Norte Unified School District consumes just North of $55million per year. The first question one might ask is…
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Help save this beautiful cypress tree in front of the pool
By Donna Westfall – January 16, 2022 Local Maggie Rasmussen has put out a message on Facebook asking for support on saving this beautiful tree. She posted: The City is planning on taking it out and we need to fight that. I understand the need to take the ones out by the library but this…
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War? Update Part 2
By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, January 15th, 2022. All Rights Reserved. Buckle your seat-belts boys and girls, it looks like we are encountering extreme turbulence ahead! In my last update, I mentioned Russia and China conducting exercises aimed at sinking US Aircraft Carrier Strike Groups. Both countries used mock US Aircraft Carriers…
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POOR LEVEL OF SERVICE WE ARE GETTING FOR OUR TAX DOLLARS
Commentary By Donna Westfall – January 15, 2022 While we are in the midst of repealing taxes every where you turn; City, County, and State, the issue of expenditures of our tax money by our various and sundry government agencies and tracking those expenditures is an important one. Locally, the City of Crescent City’s 1%…