Category: This Weeks News
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Wagging the Dog in Afghanistan
By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, August 28th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. The 1997 Comedy Wag the Dog had an ironic parallel to the historical backdrop of its time. The film could serve a similar lesson to the political climate and significant events happening today. The storyline of Wag the Dog begins with…
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Is It Okay?
Bu Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 29, 2021 Recently, both locally and throughout the State there has been aclamoring for the various governments, State, Municipal, and local toonce again establish mandates coercing California citizens to mask up,social distance, return to your prison cells, and close down theeconomy. The rational being broadcast is that…
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Fire, Fire, Every Where, And No Relief In Sight
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 27, 2021 California encompasses over one hundred million acres of land surface. It is one of the largest States in this Country. Currently just over oneand a half million acres and growing have gone up in smoke and flame. While this has been typical for several years now, it…
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Fire District Tax Not A Done Deal
By Roger Gitlin- Eye On Del Norte – August 25, 2021 For those of you who thought the recent Crescent Fire Protection District election, narrowing passing a questionable property tax increase on improved parcels was a done deal, think again. Those opposing this election are poised to act. An individual with multiple single family properties…
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Is DNUSD Restructuring into Covid Camps?
WRITTEN BY: The Whistle Blower Did you get a chance to log on to last week’s DNUSD Wednesday Webinar, where they covered the schools re-opening model and their “French Laundry” list of Covid Requirements? Well if you didn’t, you really missed out on some colorful illogical word salad, that would put any rational mind into…
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Crescent City Harbor Commission: Legacy in Bad Faith Business Practices
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – August 25, 2021 The long, sad legacy of the Crescent City Harbor Commission of bullying, belligerence and bad faith business practices continues. I share with you the story of 86 year old Crescent City widow Rachel Towe. Four decades ago, Rachel and her husband Ken opened…
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Planes, Trains, And Other Things
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 25, 2021 Looks like the “Dashboard Of Doom” is living up to its reputation byreporting several more deaths in the community from the Delta Variant. Of course nobody mentions the fact that in Del Norte County you are morelikely to die of just about anything else except Melanoma…
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School Board Votes to Purchase Medical Building
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – August 23, 2021 Two weeks back, it may have slipped your observation but the Del Norte Unified School Board voted unanimously to instruct Superintendant Jeff Harris to move forward on the purchase of 1200 Marshall St in Crescent City, the former office of Drs. Greg and…
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Do We Need a “Constitutional Sheriff?”
By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, August 20th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA) was founded in 2011 by Sheriff Richard Mack from Arizona. Sheriff Mack was a member of Ron Paul’s Oath Keepers and a lobbyist for the Gun Owners of America (GOA) during their successful…
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Who Is Kevin Kiley?
By Linda Sutter – August 22, 2021 Kiley is a California Assemblyman representing District 6, the outer ring of the northern and eastern Sacramento suburbs. He’s an attorney, a former educator and he’s a Republican running for Governor because of the Newsom recall. Here’s a list of some of his accomplishments and this is not…