Category: This Weeks News
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Gun Owners of California Files “Friend of the Court” Brief on 2nd Amendment Warrantless Search Case
SCOTUS Agrees to Hear Case on Gun Seizure and “Community Caretaking” Doctrine NEWSFLASH from GOC – January 20, 2021 Gun Owners of California (GOC) is pleased to announce they have joined the Second Amendment Law Center and the California Rifle and Pistol Association in filing an Amicus (Friend of the Court) brief asking the Supreme…
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Amazon Boots Parler for Users’ ‘Violent’ Language, but Hosts Merchant Selling ‘Kill All Republicans’ Shirt
By Linda Sutter Amazon has terminated its hosting contract with Parler, claiming that language users posted to the social media platform might “incite violence.” The tech giant, however, hosts merchants on its own website selling products that many would say could incite violence, such as a t-shirt reading, “Kill All Republicans,” and a mug that…
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PART TWO: Our Airport
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – January 20, 2021 The following is the second part of a two part series on the Del NorteCounty Regional Airport. To recap, we now have a new underutilizedterminal that will require a stable commercial airline in order to paydown the debt from construction of the terminal. We are…
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Crescent City Council Maps Out New Regulation: No Fires On the Beach.
By Linda Sutter – January 20, 2021 New City Ordinance that would extend the “no beach fire zone” from Battery Point to Preston Island voted on Monday, January 19th. The subject of city regulation of beach fires has been discussed by the City Council on several occasions over the past several months. However, as the…
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AMERICA: Not The First Time For Troubled Waters
By Roger Gitlin – January 19, 2021 America’s ship is in troubled waters. It wouldn’t be the first time our Magnificent Lady is facing some daunting if not severe negative dynamics beginning Wednesday. I’m one of those 74,000,000 Trump’s voters who Hillary Clinton labeled as deplorable. My opinion of President Trump is hands-down, Trump is…
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COVID-19 Economic Shutdown More Deadly Than The Virus
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 19, 2021 It has been a year since Covid-19 burst on the scene here in the UnitedStates, and for those that have paid attention, we learn something newnearly every day. After hearing and reading greatly exaggerated storiesand reports about how deadly the virus was, and continued, relentlessbadgering…
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Would he be turning over in his grave?
By Donna Westfall – January 18, 2021 The other day, I was explaining to an Arabian man in our country for six years how Blacks in our country have been been treated and how things have changed over the last century. Reflecting back to the 1950’s and 1960’s, there was an outstanding man, great speaker…
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Celebrating the Sanctity of Life
By Donna Westfall – January 17, 2021 January 22, 1973, was the day the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion-on-demand in all 50 states. The historic case: Roe v Wade. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation designating January 22 as the first National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Since 1984, churches around the nation continue…
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Our Airport
By Samuel Strait – January 17, 2021 I used to fly regularly out of Crescent City, when there was service toSan Francisco. I am sure that this was the case for many a localtraveler in spite of the iffy weather that made the flight down achallenge. Since the service first went to Portland, Oregon, and…
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Problems, Problems every where you look
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 15, 2021 – Cartoon Credit to Guy & Rodd. I suppose it shouldn’t be all that surprising that in a small ruralCounty in California that there seems to be problems wherever youlook. A Solid Waste Authority that in itself is a waste. 2. An Airport Commission that…