Category: This Weeks News
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Cronyism alive and well in Del Norte County
By Roger Gitlin for Eye on Del Norte – March 9, 2021 Cronyism is alive and well in Del Norte County. For those unaware of the definition of cronyism in government, it is the practice of partiality in rewarding jobs and contracts to trusted friends, especially in politics and among politicians. The opposite of cronyism…
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What Rikuzentakata, Again?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 It has been a while since Rikuzentakata, Japan was news worthy in the local area, so when it was recently a topic of conversation, the first thingthat came to mind is that Chris Howard and Blake Inscore must be homesick for a bit of international…
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BREAKING NEWS: SENATE PASSES $1.9 TRILLION BILL
By Donna Westfall – March 6, 2021 In a vote of 50 Yea to 49 Nay, H.R. 1319 called The American Rescue Plan Act has passed. The $15 an hour minimum wage was taken out of the bill. Some comments from social media: “Who didn’t show up for work?” “Sad day for taxpayers.” “This is…
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$1.9 TRILLION “COVID-19” BILL is mostly to pay for things other than Covid related.
By Donna Westfall – March 6, 2021 Senator Ron Johnson, Republican from Wisconsin, demanded that the Senate Clerk read every page of the 628 pages of the nearly $2 trillion bill Democrats are pushing. Remember Obama’s Affordable Care Act in 2010? Unlike House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi saying,” You have to pass the bill to…
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Where have 500 students gone?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 6, 2021 Money, Money, Money, what will we do without Money” seems to be what’s on the minds of the local School District, not on the failure of thelocal district to educate it’s charges. In the 2019-2020 school yearthe district’s enrollment stood at 3,981 students in all…
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Del Norte County, Odd Man Out
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 5, 2021 Just recently having viewed the map of all the counties in Californiathat were on board with the Jefferson State movement and those that arewithin Oregon who are involved with the Greater Idaho movement, itstruck me that the island of resistance to both movements was on…
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Should Del Norte County Join Greater Idaho?
By Jeff McCaddonCopyright Jeff McCaddon, March 3rd, 2021. All Rights Reserved. The conservative rural counties of Oregon are fed-up with their ultra-liberal cultural-revolutionary big-city Democrat dominated State government. Like neighboring California, Oregon is plagued with financially destructive Pandemic lock-downs, irrational draconian gun legislation, anti-law enforcement policies, Marxist school indoctrination, and intrusions into both their citizen’s…
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BREAKING NEWS: 8.1 Earthquake in New Zealand, Hawaii under Tsunami warnings
March 4, 2021 – Weather Advisory reports that three large earthquakes have taken place off the Northern part of New Zealand less than an hour ago. Residents in New Zealand have been warned to head for high ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned that Tsunami’s may be headed towards Hawaii. The earliest time it…
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BREAKING NEWS: RecallGavin2020 Reaches 1,927,000 Signatures
Press Release – March 3, 2021 (Los Angeles, California) The official Recall Campaign against California Governor Gavin Newsom has now gathered more than 1,927,000 signatures as of Wednesday evening, March 3, 2021. The announcement was made during an online meeting with campaign leaders and volunteers. A total of 1,497,709 valid signatures must be collected and…
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Adults behaving like ten year olds in Del Norte County
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 3, 2021 When I came to this area as a permanent resident now forty eight yearsago, I would have never guessed that what I experienced in my local bank yesterday was even a remote possibility. Then again I have alwaysassumed that most adults would at least attempt…