Category: This Weeks News
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation bias taints debate over fluoridation
Opinion Piece reprinted with permission from David Green, Rocky Ridge Drinking Water originally published in Peterborough Examiner– August 27, 2019 – Since Aug. 19, the news media in the U.S. and abroad has been abuzz with coverage of the release of research in JAMA Pediatrics suggesting Canadian boys born to mothers with common levels of…
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YOU’RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS, BUT PROP 13 STILL IN DANGER!
By Jon Coupal, President – Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – August 23, 2019 – Your Immediate Action Needed: Help to Preserve Our Prop. 13 Victory! In our last email Action Alert, we warned everyone to remain vigilant. While Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 1 was defeated on the Assembly Floor last Monday, the reality is that…
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Jury orders Planned Parenthood to pay $3M to former director who exposed lies, negligence
Claire Chretien, journalist for LifeSite News –Mon Aug 19, 2019 – PHOENIX, Arizona, August 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — An Arizona jury has unanimously awarded $3 million in damages to a former Planned Parenthood director who was fired after reporting an abortionist’s illegal conduct and high complication rates, falsification of affidavits and patient records, incomplete abortions,…
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Volunteers needed for Take a Bite out of Blight project
Submitted by Supervisor Roger Gitlin – August 20, 2019 A formidable project awaits you. A privately owned lot off Washington Blvd, at the South 101 Freeway on ramp has become severely blighted by transients. Volunteers needed to bag litter and trash for staging and removal. WHEN: Wednesday-Thursday, August 28-29, 8:30AM-12 Noon WHERE: 101 Freeway…
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BREAKING NEWS! A Prop. 13 Victory! Today the Immediate Action Needed is: Celebrate!
Submitted by Jon Coupal, President – Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – August 20, 2019 Thank you!! As we anticipated, Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 did come up for a vote Monday on the Assembly Floor. After 30 minutes of testimony, which included opposition comments from both Democrats and Republicans, ACA 1 was defeated! When all the votes…
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Another $15,000 Hand-out to Oxford House?
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – August 13, 2019 – I am somewhat stunned by the lack of understanding by Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Director, Heather Snow, as she has once again got to stick her nose in something that shouldn’t be any of her business. Most of us have no doubt…
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Immediate Action Needed! Call the Capitol to protect Proposition 13!
Submitted by Jon Coupal, President Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – August 12, 2019- Oppose Assembly Constitutional Amendment 1 (ACA 1). We received word just now that the bill will be coming up for an Assembly Floor vote this afternoon. Communicating with your legislators now is crucial. WHEN TO TAKE ACTION: NOW! ACA 1 is likely…
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California’s surplus is how much?
Opinion Piece By Jon Coupal, President of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – August 5, 2019 During a recent meeting with allied organizations concerned about California’s high taxes, the question on everyone’s mind was: why do our political adversaries continue to push for even more taxes given that the state has a huge budget surplus? Also,…
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Democrats get SLAPP’d for First Amendment violation
By Jon Coupal, President of Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association – July 28, 2019 Democrats pay lip service to the First Amendment and claim to encourage political engagement but, in reality, their desire is to silence all views but their own. Last week, a Court of Appeal made them pay for their hypocrisy. In 2017, one…
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Harbor Inequities
Opinion Piece By Rachel Towe – July 18, 2019 My husband and I owned Harbor RV in Crescent City for 40 years. In the past 13 years, we suffered heartbreaking tragedies. The death of our only daughter in 2006. Then the death of my husband in 2012. Adding insult to injury, I recently found out…