Category: This Weeks News
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She’s still Speaker of the House
By Donna Westfall – January 3, 2020 The size of the voting House of Representatives is 435. Nancy Pelosi (D -CA) was reelected as House Speaker today by a vote of 216. House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) got 209 votes. That totals 425. What happened to the other 10 votes? The vote had to…
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Will you get the COVID Vaccination?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 3, 2020 We are now into what has been feverishly reported as the pandemic of the millennium. A year or more if you count the time in China and what do we really know? Not much for certain. Here in the United States wehave endured lock downs,…
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Is this the year Fluoride ends?
By Donna Westfall – January 3, 2021 In 2012, Crescent City voters passed a moratorium to turn off harmful fluoride that had been added to the water for 44 years. The first try at the ballot box failed two years earlier. What made the difference between 2010 and 2012? Local doctors and new parents were…
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Spring whine from teachers about being under appreciated
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 3, 2020 It’s January already and it must be about time for the local teacher’s union to start their yearly whine about being under appreciated. It usually takes the form of an increase in salary across the board that the local school district can ill afford, coupled…
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PART 1: How are Small Businesses Faring in Crescent City/Del Norte County?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 2, 2020 The following is an ongoing four part series of how small business has fared over the past year. Obviously 2020 has not been a normal year for small business in Del Norte County. Just how devastating, will only become evident in the months to come. …
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5 Uses for Coca Cola in Your Garden
Credit to Vele5 – January 1, 2021 Who would’ve known that this classic drink, the favorite of many generations, has plenty of beneficial uses in the garden? Actually, it can be very helpful. From assisting you in destroying slugs to being your ally for composting; having an extra bottle for the garden is a good…
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BREAKING NEWS: Is Stop the Steal our 21st Century Boston Tea Party?
By Donna Westfall – January 1, 2021 January 6th is the deadline for electoral votes to be certified or challenged. Events are happening and it’s purpose it to petition Congress not to certify these fraudulent electoral votes. President Trump has put the call out to ALL AMERICAN’S to take action and show up. There’s the…
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Cell Phones: New Form of Governmental Slavery?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – January 1, 2021 Has American rugged individualism gone the way of Friedrich Hayek’sprophetic 1944 classic, “Road to Serfdom”? Are Americans ready to assume the iron collar and chains of governmental slavery? I suspect weshall see. Major corporations and tech have banded together to form The Common Project. …
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Which would you pick? A plate of fudge? Or a Moroccan Tagine?
By Donna Westfall – January 1, 2021 About gifts. Unless we know what someone wants, we’re reluctant to just get them any gift. Candy and gift certificates are always available and appropriate, but if someone you know really, really wants something and can’t get it, then it’s truly a surprise and greatly appreciated to hand…
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Miserable Good-Riddance Year
By Angry Old American Copyright Angry Old American, December 30th, 2020. All Rights Reserved. Will I have words of glowing encouragement for this community at the dawn of 2021? After a year when the world has been turned upside-down and logic no longer applies, could there be any reason to celebrate? At a time when…