Category: This Weeks News
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Bob Berkowitz has our endorsement for Supervisor 5th District
By Donna Westfall – March 1, 2020 Hands down, no contest, incumbent Supervisor of the 5th District, Bob Berkowitz, has our endorsement. His opponent, Kevin Hendricks, has a cloud over his head from his days as Executive Director at the Del Norte County Solid Waste Authority (DNSWMA, aka transfer station aka the dump). In July…
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Abe asks all schools in Japan to temporarily close over coronavirus
By Donna Westfall – February 27, 2020 – Our friends in Japan are keeping us informed about the Coronavirus in that part of the world. In today’s edition of The Mainichi, Japan’s National Daily since 1922, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will request all elementary, junior high and high schools in Japan to…
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Community Clean-Up
WHEN: Saturday, February 29, 2020, 8:30 AM-12 Noon. WHERE: Temple Ave, 100 yards south of the State St ( Bertsch tract ), Crescent City, Ca. Wear long pants. You will be provided with a picker and Hefty bags to pick up litter remaining from the County clean-up, Feb. 6-7 I will be there to greet…
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POSSIBLE FPPC VIOLATIONS AGAINST CRESCENT CITY COUNCIL AND BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
By Linda Sutter – February 16, 2020 On January 29, 2020, a complaint to the Fair Political Practice Commission (FPPC) was lodged against current Board of Supervisors, Bob Berkowitz, Lori Cowan, and Chris Howard for several regulation violations regarding the Sister City of Japan and other violations. In order to understand the seriousness of how…
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Beware of indoctrination in the split roll fight
By Jon Coupal, February 12, 2020 It’s no secret that public sector labor organizations hate Proposition 13 because it remains one of the few barriers to their unfettered access to our wallets and pocketbooks. Whether in the courts, legislature, initiative measures or “public education” campaigns, their relentless resistance to that landmark initiative has continued unabated for over…
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Bonds are a risky way to deal with pension woes
By Jon Coupal – February 12, 2020 Recently, this column exposed the foolishness of two proposed statewide bond measures: A $15 billion school bond, which will be on the March 3 ballot, as well as a “climate resiliency” bond. Both are horribly flawed for several reasons, not the least of which that it makes no…
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Two Questions
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – January 5, 2020 We have now witnessed the coup in progress culminating from a phony complaint filed by a known but anonymous “whistleblower” to its ultimate predestined end in the insurmountable Senate with even traitorous RINO’s falling into line not because of the totally non-credible substantiation provided by the…
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Roots & Shoots Garden Club Meeting Packed with Fun & Info
By Donna Westfall – January 25, 2020 When my mother was a little girl, she and her seven brothers and sisters would go into the strawberry fields and pick strawberries to earn a few cents a day. When I was a little girl about five years old, our landlady would plant veggies in the backyard…
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More debt and higher taxes? No on 13 on the March 3 ballot
By Jon Coupal – January 24, 2020 The “Proposition 13” on the March 3, 2020, ballot is a $15 billion school construction bond, but it would cost taxpayers far more than $15 billion. That’s why the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association is opposed to this Proposition 13. This measure would increase the state’s debt and interest…
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Correcting Ballot Measure Deception
By Jon Coupal – January 25, 2020 – A few weeks ago, this column recounted how progressive labor interests and their allies in government have stacked the deck against taxpayers in their efforts to qualify and pass the infamous “split roll” initiative. The measure, entitled the California Schools and Local Communities Funding Act of 2020,…