Category: This Weeks News
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GOVENOR BROWN ORDERS STRIKE TEAM TO PELICAN BAY STATE PRISON
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – August 20, 2017 – Earlier this week Governor Brown, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Director, and California Correctional Peace Officer President, Chuck Alexander, made it to Del Norte County in stealth mode. The reason for the secret visit was due to the several safety violations at Pelican…
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Curry County FIRES!
By Donna Westfall – August 18, 2017 – The air quality in Del Norte County is horrible today due to fires in Curry County. First there was the fire in Gold Beach near the fairgrounds and fanned by 30 mph winds. Then there is the fire called Chetco Bar Fire which has evacuation orders called “The Level…
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Top Rating for Marlo’s Buffet
By Doug & Donna Westfall – August 18, 2017 – My husband is the kinda guy that will eat virtually anything as long as it doesn’t have beets or okra in it. He loves his hamburgers, fries and soda’s. Equally comfortable with fish and chips; occasionally Chinese or Thai food, but not crazy about Japanese.…
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The latest on abortions: Oregon & Finland
By Lila Rose, president and founder of Live Action – August 17, 2017 – Lila Rose has this to say about: Oregon’s passage this week of the Reproductive Health Equity Act, which forces health insurers and taxpayers to provide free abortions through all nine months of pregnancy for all Oregonians, including illegal immigrants. Iceland’s “eradicating” of Down…
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Oxford House in Name Only
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – August 14, 2017 – It appears that Del Norte Counties Department of Health and Human Services in now fully invested in the enabling business with the recent authorization of the contract which along with the one for Oxford House Beachside has now perverted the most basic tenant of the Oxford…
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A Tale of Two Newspapers
By Donna Westfall – August 13, 2017 – Two newspapers serve our metropolitan area, The Curry Coastal Pilot, run by Scott Graves and the Del Norte Triplicate run by Robin Fornoff. It seems that mission of those two newspapers could not be more different. Almost all of the editorials by the Pilot’s Scott Graves seem…
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Pelican Bay State Prison Advisory Board Update
By Donna Westfall – August 12, 2017 – Supervisor Roger Gitlin sits on the Prison Advisory Board. During their last meeting held Wednesday, August 9th at 3 pm, the following were discussed: Current inmate count stands at 2,082. There used to be 700 officers and 3,623 inmates. That was too many. They had riots, double…
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Did BOS Chairman Howard and Sup. Cowan flunk ethics training?
By Donna Westfall – August 10, 2017 – Some people are really good at chairing meetings and then there are those that are not. Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, (BOS) Chris Howard gets classified as really bad at handling meetings particularly when it comes to holding his fellow supervisors accountable for their lack of…
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Citizens for Fair Representation’s Court Case Moves Forward
August 8, 2017 Last week, Federal Court Judge Judge K. Muller, asked the Chief Magistrate to form a 3-judge panel to hear the case; Citizens for Fair Representation vs Secretary of State Alex Padilla. In May, Citizens for Fair Representation (CFR) filed the lawsuit against the State of California, for lack of representation and dilution…
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The search for a new city manager
By Donna Westfall – August 9, 2017 – Over the last 10 years or so; there was: Eli Naffah from May 2006 until he resigned in 2008; and then Rod Butler @ $99,856 in January 2009 until about December 2010; and then Gene Palazzo started out at $98,000 base salary on August 8, 2011, and ended…