Category: This Weeks News
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Who is Randy Waltz?
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 15, 2021 He is the new Sheriff of Del Norte County for the past two and a half-weeks. What better opportunity than the present to introduce him to Del Norte County. Sheriff Waltz assumed the position upon the pre-mature departure of former Sheriff Erik Apperson,…
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Beavis and Butthead School Board Members
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – October 15, 2021 Attending a Del Norte school board meeting is like watching a Beavis and Butthead cartoon. These board members represent our education system? Going to public meetings gives you an understanding of how meetings are to be conducted. Clearly, this school board is ridden with so much…
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$47,000,000 (That’s $47 MILLION) School Bond Presentation
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 15, 2021 I attended my first in a very long time on-site meeting of the Del Norte Unified School District. As a retired Multi-Subject CLAD Credentialled Teacher, I have a great love and passion to teach kids and for improving the quality of education in…
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Cradle to Grave, That’s What “Promise Neighborhood Grants” Promise
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – October 15, 2021 The recent acceptance of a $30 million grant from the United StatesDepartment of Education is a leftist, liberal, progressive wet dream. Promising all sorts of unrealistic outcomes for “children fromdistressed areas”, five years at $6 million for each year to allow “nonprofits, including faith based groups,…
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Time To Get Rid Of Dianne Feinstein. She Wants MORE Gun Control Laws.
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – October 14, 2021 – Credit to Firearms Policy Coalition “U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), one of the most prolific gun control advocates in the U.S. Senate, has teamed up with Sen. Richard “Dick” Blumenthal (D-CT) to push a new anti-gun bill through Congress. When Dick isn’t making up stories about…
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Newsom’s Florida Blunder
By Kevin Kiley – October 13, 2021 Gavin Newsom has repeatedly suggested a state’s current COVID “case rate” is the measure of its success. Currently, Florida’s case rate is lower than California’s. Florida has fared better in every respect, including age-adjusted mortality. Their kids have been in school without masks and businesses open without mandates.…
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Your Money Down The Toilet
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 13, 2021 Del Norte County Public Health Officer Dr. Aaron Stutz just got himself a very nice pay raise and an extension of his contract until June 30, 2022. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously 4-0 (Supervisor Short was absent) to waive the residency requirement…
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MOVING FORWARD CITIZENS OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE MUSHROOMED
By Linda Sutter, Investigative Reporter – October 13, 2021 The Del Norte Unified School District’s Citizens Oversight Committee (COC) for the Measure A Bond voted on in 2008 was unfortunately kept in the dark like a mushroom. The School Board thought teaching the COC about bylaws and the Brown Act was more important than teaching…
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The myths of ‘income inequality’
Opinion Piece By Jon Coupal – October 13, 2021 It is an article of faith among progressives that income inequality is getting worse in California. In fact, claims of a widening gap between rich and poor are used nationally to justify raising taxes and accelerate the redistribution of wealth. But like other urban myths, such…
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“Safe And Effective”?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – October 13, 2021 We’ve all heard or seen the mantra at least a thousand times or more. Vaccines are better than sliced bread, saved a gazillion lives, themodern world has emerged from the dark ages with the advent of vaccines,and on and on. Almost more adulation than most fans…