Category: This Weeks News
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6 Counties Re-Open
By Donna Westfall – May 12, 2020 – Credit to The Sacramento Bee article, “Northern California counties scramble to reopen. Some are confused by Newsom’s demands” BY TONY BIZJAK, DALE KASLER, AND ALEXANDRA YOON-HENDRICKS published MAY 11, 2020 04:18 PM , UPDATED MAY 11, 2020 05:02 PM “As of Monday, May 11th, Placer, El Dorado, Yuba, Sutter, Nevada,…
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Of nuclear-powered airplanes and the bullet train
Opinion Piece By Jon Coupal – May 11, 2020 A long-forgotten aspect of the nuclear arms race was the costly undertaking by the United States to develop a nuclear-powered aircraft as a strategic bomber. Even before Allied powers defeated Nazi Germany in 1945, both the United States and the Soviet Union were battling for post-war…
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Stuck In The Middle With You
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – May 8, 2020 “Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, Stuck in the middle with you. (Stealers Wheel)” Yes, we are stuck in the middle, thanks to the idiots in local government including the County right up to the greasy governor, Gavin Gruesome…
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Gruesome Newsom’s Legacy?
By Samuel Strait – May 8, 2020 With all that has gone wrong in California over the course of the last decade or so with the governing body having gone so completely off the rails, it will likely be hard to top the past three months of dictatorship in the form of Governor Gavin Newsom…
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Speaking of Hysteria
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – May 5, 2020 I had a friend who attended the May 1st event at the State capitol. He was one of 32 arrested by the CHP for exercising their First Amendment rights. Didn’t these officers take an oath of office to uphold the Constitution? This wasn’t Michigan where people…
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Protecting taxpayers in a time of crisis
By Jon Coupal – April 4, 2020 The word “unprecedented” is fitting for the coronavirus crisis that is now savaging both the health of countless Americans as well as our nation’s economy. Not since September 11th has the United States faced such a challenge. In reaction to the outbreak, healthcare professionals have emphasized the importance…
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When eating out is in defiance of Gov Newsom’s order
Local Del Norte County restaurant is open in defiance of our Governor’s orders. By Donna Westfall – May 2, 2020 Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin along with his wife, Angie, and their friends Tony and Leslie Barnes along with Dan Schultz and friend ate breakfast this morning at the Log Cabin Diner located at 301…
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Is the Currrent Executive Director and Board of the Chamber of Commerce speaking for their membership?
Supervisor 1st District, Roger Gitlin – May 1, 2020 We all know the Chamber of Commerce has cancelled the 4th July Parade. Tragic ! What you may not know is a group of community members were invited to a ZOOM meeting with Executive Director Cindy Vosberg, Chamber president Melodee Mitcheii and several other members of…
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Another rally coming up to express displeasure of Gov Newsom’s overreach
WHEN: Thursday, May 7, 2020 TIME: 12 Noon WHERE: Highway 101 North near the Fairgrounds Retired Del Norte County Sheriff, Dean Wilson, has announced he is organizing a Rally expressing community dissatisfaction with Gov. Newsom’s Executive Order overreach. Please join us in asserting our 1st Amendment right to assemble and express our freedom…
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Complete Disgust with local Chamber of Commerce
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – May 1, 2020 I have never been able to have a particular fondness for government, nor some of the groups that seem to be inevitable off shoots from government. I seem to have that almost inescapable feeling that the government and those groups claiming to be ever so beneficial…