Category: This Weeks News
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HOMESTEAD FILING SAVE MONEY ON PROPERTY TAXES NOW
By Linda Sutter – December 17, 2021 Our local officials thought it was great fun to use our taxpayer funds to place a one cent sales tax on the ballot last year, increase Fire District tax on a few to pay for all, and now want to increase our water and sewer rate in the…
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Sister City, What Again? How Much Will It Cost This Time?
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – December 18, 2021 It isn’t that often that the City Council of Crescent City can be summedup in one word…Idiots. Idiocy, or stupidity, folly,foolishness,madness, insanity, lunacy, silliness, brainlessness,thoughtlessness, senselessness, lack of sense, indiscretion,irresponsibility, injudiciousness, imprudence, rashness,recklessness,ineptitude,inaneness, inanity, irrationality,illogicality,absurdity, nonsense, ludicrousness, ridiculousness, fatuousness,asininity, pointlessness, meaninglessness, futility, and fruitlessnessare…
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Latest Crescent City Harbor Meeting
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – February 17, 2021 At Thursday, December 16th Special Meeting of the Crescent City Harbor District was refreshingly productive and informational… No disrespect intended, the Meeting to discuss the codification of Harbor ordinances was productive and positive despite Harbor president Brian Stone’s best efforts to gloss over…
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Just Exactly Who Is A Benefit To The People?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – December 17, 2021 Most of you that read the Crescent City Times may have noticed a lack of writingfrom yours truly in the pages of the Times. As to that, I have beentraveling for most of the past month through Oregon, Western Washington,with some brief visits to Northern California,…
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WHY DOES OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM FAIL MISERABLY?
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – December 16, 2021 At the Board of Supervisors meeting of December 14, 2021. Chief Probation Officer Lonnie Reyman received approval of all Board of Supervisors for the Pre-Trial Assessment planning done for local criminals. Today, during the Del Norte Superior Court Proceedings under Judge Cochran it was disturbing to…
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Groundhog’s Year
By Assemblyman Kevin Kiley – December 14, 2021 In many ways 2021 has felt like a repeat of 2020. But unlike Bill Murray’s iconic character, who improved as he lived Groundhog’s Day over and over, Gavin Newsom has learned absolutely nothing. Case in point: yesterday he reimposed a statewide mask mandate, despite data showing that counties with…
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Bar O Boys Ranch. What’s Going On?
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – December 14, 2021 Located on 199, four plus years ago, Del Norte County closed the six decade-old boys Juvenile probation camp 32 miles of Crescent City. The good work performed by kids and Staff is unquestionable. 602 Wards (Juvenile offenders) aged 13-18 were Court-ordered to Bar…
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Board Of Supervisors December 14, 2021 Meeting
By Linda Sutter – December 14, 2021 Discussion about the Cannabis Tax. Currently, the County receives about $60,000 from the Cannabis Tax. Supervisor Valery Starkey recognized that was quite high for one business to fork out that kind of money. The rest of the Supervisors seemed to think nothing of it. In fact, Robert Derego…
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Pelosi, Schumer, and Biden – Traitors?
By Mark Meuser – December 14, 2021 One of the most critical parts of the War for Independence was not George Washington beating the British bayonets. It was stopping the British printers from devaluing the Continental dollar with counterfeit currency. Most know about the heroic efforts by Washington and the Army to stand up against the…
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Bad Boy, COC Chair Steve Lyon, does not know what independent means
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – December 14, 2021 I walked into the December 10th COC meeting a few minutes late. Almost wished I hadn’t attended because what was taking place was an argument between Citizen’s Oversight Committee (COC) Board Member Angelina Countess -Bieber and Chairman of the COC, Steve Lyon. Their argument was over…