Category: This Weeks News
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Oh, No, Not Another Story About The Fire Assessment, Part Two
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 7, 2021 It is important to understand that as time goes on and circumstanceschange, your local fire district is operating under those same kinds ofchanges. It is the District’s position that the changes to be made toits current operating structure include a hybrid volunteer fire andemergency team…
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Oh No, Not another Story About the Fire Assessment: Part One
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 7, 2021 Nearly everyone affected by the decision of the Crescent Fire ProtectionDistrict to pursue another effort at passage of a increased fireassessment on property taxes has now received both their ballot and theinformation pamphlet that arrived with it. Confused, baffled, orbewildered, do not despair. In a…
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FRIVOLOUS SPENDING OF MEASURE S TAX FUNDS
By Linda Sutter – May 6, 2021 In the Del Norte Triplicate dated April 30, 2021 an article by Knox Keranen revealed how the oversight committee of former City Council Members Heidi Kime and Kelly Schellong, plan to spend your money. And the Categories are: Police who will receive approximately $1,646, 885 over 5 years.…
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Update on Harbor Conditions
By Roger Gitlin – May 6, 2021 Alas, the bathrooms at Whaler’s Island / boat ramps are now Open, Covid signs removed. It is unfortunate EYE ON DEL NORTE has to continually remind the Harbor District to clean up feces and urine deposits outside the closed restroom at the boat ramps but as of 4pm,…
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ANOTHER TAX WHAAAT?
By Linda Sutter, Opinion Piece- May 46, 2021 In October 2020 the Crescent Fire Protection District sent out ballots to pass a benefit assessment (tax) on a group of 5000 residents. This tax failed. It should be noted that the cost for that election including the ballots and informational pamphlets cost taxpayers $164,000 which included…
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The True Arbiter Of Last Chance Grade, EPIC
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 3, 2021 It is not often when such true arrogance is displayed in print, yetMr. Tom Wheeler, Director of EPIC, Environmental Protection InformationCenter, has exceeded the norm. In a guest opinion in the Lost CoastOutpost titled “As Someone Who Has TWO Active Lawsuits Against Caltrans,Let Me Say…
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What is happening at the Veterans Memorial Hall?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 3, 2021 Recently a call from a concerned citizen put me in touch with JerryJohnson a long time Marine Veteran who has advocated for Veteran affairsfor many years. Mr. Johnson, the former and long time president of theVFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, had become concerned upon returning…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #5
By Donna Westfall – May 2, 2021 Just about the time you think you understand cancel culture and woke politics, now it’s an effort to try to understand Critical Race Theory. QUICK REVIEW: CANCEL CULTURE: Being ostracized. Most common use is being thown out and banned on social media such as what happened to former…
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Are shortages coming? Is it time to hoard food? What food to hoard?
By Donna Westfall – April 30, 2021 Now that illegal President Biden has stated in his speech of April 28th that the January 6th run on the capitol was a greater tragedy than 9/11, we can all realize that this fool is taking our country down the wrong path. His historic deficit spending with increases…
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What’s wrong with the Crescent City Harbor?
By Roger Gitlin – April 30, 2021 Some weeks back, I received phone calls and a few emails of complaints of closed restrooms and fecal and urine matter at the closed bathrooms at the boat ramps. I personally observed these conditions and upon conversation with the interim Harbormaster, was told the restrooms near the boat…