Category: This Weeks News
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Apologies from Hemmingsen, Howard and Cable
[fvplayer src=”http://www.crescentcitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Compressed-Bos-1.m4v” width=”300″ height=”200″] By Donna Westfall – April 13, 2017 – Denying 1st Amendment rights came back to the April 11, 2017 Board of Supervisors meeting for discussion in a number of ways: Linda Sutter managed to offer up public comment referring to Sup. Hemmingsen and Chair Howard in unflattering terms of “Neanderthal” and…
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Cudo’s to City Council for firing City Manager Vandermark – No Surprise
By Donna Westfall – April 12, 2017 – On September 30, 2016, three board members of the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association had their first private meeting with City Manager, David Vandermark, and after 10 minutes were ready to walk. From accusing the President of the tax association of “snarling” at him to making…
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Denying free speech, the very essence of Democracy
[fvplayer src=”http://www.crescentcitytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/handbrake-compression.mp4″ width=”624″ height=”480″] Snippets from the March 28, 2017 Board of Supervisors meeting. Not only did they (Chairman Howard and Supervisor Hemmingsen) deny free speech to two people from the public, but CAO Jay Sarina also admitted that the prior action of the previous board meeting to vote Lori Cowan in as an…
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Del Norte County not the only one grappling with 1st Amendment rights
By Guest Columnist Michael Ceremello – April 12, 2017 – Solano Judge Throws Out Independent Voice Lawsuit Independent Voice (IV) Publisher Dave Scholl received a major setback in his effort to expose the city council’s illegal and unethical bid rigging and sole source contract design to eliminate the IV from competing for the city’s legal…
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The Chicken Little Syndrome
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – April 12, 2017 – Something at the local level that one would think citizens, Democrats in particular, would at least try to avoid, or rather make a greater effort to appear somewhat more tolerant, but that is clearly not the case. As we have seen Nationally, Progressive Democrats have…
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Congressman Huffman’s Town Hall Meeting
By Jaime Yarbrough- April 10, 2017 – The Cresent Elk Middle School Auditorium was the location of a town hall meeeting being hosted by Congessman Jared Huffman (http://huffman.house.gov/). The auditorium quickly filled to 3/4 capacity with concerned Del Norters eager to ask questions and have their concerns addressed. With no preamble Huffman addessed the audience…
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Congressman Huffman Announces Student Art Competition
Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) announced this week that the 2017 Congressional Art Competition is open to all high school students in California’s Second Congressional District, which spans from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. The annual art contest is held by the U.S. Congress for high school students across the country.…
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US Senate confirmed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court utilizing the “Nuclear option”
Credit to Sen. Lindsey Graham – April 7, 2017 – With 55 Yea’s, and 45 Nay’s, Neil Gorsuch will become the 113th person to serve on the Supreme Court and is scheduled to be sworn in Monday. This week the Democrats launched the first partisan filibuster against a Supreme Court nominee in American history. Sen. Graham…
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Suggested letter to send those bozo’s wanting to increase the gas tax & DMV fees
Sample Letter – simply put your name at the bottom and email to Sen. McGuire or ANY and ALL Democratic Senators as well as Gov. (Moonbeam) Brown through his website. E-mail address: Senator.McGuire@senate.ca.gov or give his office a call at 916.651.4002. Senator McGuire, This bill is an absolute atrocity for us here on the North…
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People v. Robert Allen Lopez Cole
Arpil 6, 2017 – The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced that Robert Allen Lopez Cole (32) of Crescent City was sentenced this afternoon to serve eight years in state prison for Inflicting Corporal Injury on a Spouse or Co-Habitant and for a Special Allegation of having been previously convicted of a “strike” offense. The…