Category: This Weeks News
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Boston Tea Party
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 25, 2021 – picture credit to history.com I suspect that men like Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Molineuxwould be appalled by what is happening in this country today. Don’tknow who they are? On December 16. 1773, these three men and aboutsixty others moved from a meeting…
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Apology to DA Katie Micks
By Roger Gitlin – March 24, 2021 I owe District Attorney Katie Micks an apology. Some weeks back, I expressed my extreme displeasure with DA Micks on what I perceived as “selective prosecution” of recently-resigned City Councilor Alex Campbell, in a FB post entitled, ” A Tale of Two Alex’s.”I contended the DN District Attorney…
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House Republican Introduces Austerity Bill to Kill ‘Zombie’ Government Programs
Credit to Jack Beyrer – MARCH 18, 2021 6:45 PM of The Washington Free Beacon Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.) is set to introduce a bill Thursday to eliminate unauthorized government spending programs costing taxpayers billions. The bill, known as the Unauthorized Spending Accountability Act, would require Congress to reauthorize expiring federal spending programs every three…
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Senate Bill 668 needed to buy time for California families
By Jon Coupal – March 24, 2021 It’s hard to imagine anything more callous than the government sending a giant tax bill to a bereaved family, but thanks to Proposition 19, many California families will have that unfortunate experience. Prop. 19, which passed by a razor-thin margin in the November election, expanded a tax break…
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LIVE DRILL!
By Jaime Yarbrough The annual Tsunami Warning Communications Test in Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino counties will be conducted on Wednesday, March 24th between 11 am and noon. The test will interrupt TV and radio broadcasts and turn on tsunami sirens in some areas. Additionally, local jurisdictions may test their reverse calling systems and the…
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DNSWMA is raising rates again.
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 23, 2021 It has been awhile since the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority(DNSWMA)has made an appearance in these pages, and it is no surprise it involvesRecology wanting a rate hike. In a small, poor, rural County such asours, recycling is both expensive and makes very little…
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Birds of Del Norte County
By Donna Westfall March 22, 2021 – Picture credit to Birds of Del Norte and Curry County Facebook page Part of the natural beauty around Del Norte County are the huge variety of birds. Were you lucky enough to go around as a kid and have someone point out the different varieties of birds? Did…
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Government overreach: Taxes and Fees Paid in California
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 21, 2021 The discussion was to be about our local Del Norte Solid WasteManagement Authority (DNSWMA) and their recent discussion about raising ratesonce again. I believe this was mentioned in a previous article pennedby yours truly that once Tedd Ward got the bit between his teeth theincrease…
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Government Overreach: What’s wrong with the Golden State?
By Roger Gitlin, March 20, 2021 Angela and I just returned from a two month cross country odyssey in our travel trailer. Our route took us south to 1-10 enroute to Jacksonville, Florida and returned on lots of backroads from Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and returning via 1-40 thru Arkansas,…
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Why do I need to know about . . .Science? #7
By Jaime Yarbrough- Science Editor – March 20, 2021 What am I about to read? Why do I need to read it? How will it make my life better ? Welcome to SPRING 2021 ! It has been a long, long, long, dark, dark Winter and a lot happened. But, of course, that could be…