Category: This Weeks News
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Money, Money, Money, Where Will It Come From?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – July 16, 2021 With inflation on the rise, closing on seven percent in June alone,where will Americans go to keep up? Looks like the Federal Governmenthas an answer for you. With the impending passage of an explosion innew spending, $4,100,000,000,000 plus an additional $1,700,000,000,000 oh howfederal government legislators…
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Cuban’s protesting against Communism and the song that is fueling their quest for freedom.
By Donna Westfall – July 13, 2021 90 miles south of Key West, Florida is the country of Cuba. Fidel Castro ousted Batista in 1959. His brother, Raul Castro took over the leadership of the country upon his brother’s declining health until 2018. This year, Raul finally stepped down as head of the Communist Party…
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“Tough Bananas” Says Fire District Board Member Rick Kelley
By Donna Westfall – July 13, 2021 – Picture credit to boldsky.com The big question of the day, “Will the Crescent Fire Protection District pass the benefit assessment?” Indeed they did. But before they did, several people attended the July 12th ZOOM meeting and gave them an earful during public comment. 1st – Roger Gitlin,…
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Why do I Need to Know about Science . . . . #12
By Jaime Yarbrough, Science Editor – July 12, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better? Once again, forgive me for my absence but as you know it’s summer, and there are places to go and things to do. Thank you for…
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ZOOM Meeting tonight – Fire Tax
By Donna Westfall – July 12, 2021 For those of you frustrated by the Crescent Fire Protection District’s “Benefit Assessment” tax that may add to your property tax bill, be advised that tonight at 5 pm THAT’S MONDAY, JULY 12TH AT 5 pm, they will review and adopt certification of the ballot tabulation summary. This…
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Vaccinations Knocking
By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, July 10th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. “Bad-boys, bad-boys, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when they come for you, bad-boys bad-boys.” This is not a “Cops” television rerun, but another intrusive decree by our duly elected President Biden. If we will not go and get our Covid…
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Vaccination Intimidation, Oh Really?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – July 8, 2021 We have already been swamped by pleading from the State and Local PublicHealth about vaccinations, and now the Federal dictatorship inWashington has been heard to suggest that they will be sending aroundvarious federal agents to nudge compliance for those that refuse to bevaccinated. Likely in…
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July 6th, New Schedule, And Problems Remain At Last Chance Grade
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – July 8, 2021 We were told several days ago that the work schedule at Last ChanceGrade would change on July 6th to speed up the “emergency repairs”,likely cutting off a couple of months to the time line of making theHighway south less of an adventure. So now travelers…
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Don’t steal water from farmers!
By Donna Westfall- July 8, 2021 Today’s headlines -lot’s of excitement in the High Desert of California which is about an hour’s drive north of Los Angeles. Illegal marijuana grows suspected by international cartels were busted! We’re not talking small potatoes here. $1.19 billion worth – that’s Billion with a “B.” Here’s what happened. In…