Category: This Weeks News
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What is Measure Q All About: Part 2
By Donna Westfall – August 10, 2016 – The Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association voted unanimously to oppose the 20% sewer rate increase. Here’s the argument against Measure Q:
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What is Measure Q All About? Part 1
By Donna Westfall – August 9, 2016 – The controversy about sewer rates just hit a new high, or low, depending upon your position. On the one hand, many in the public have suspected that there was outright fraud and corruption taking place on the bid, the loan and the upgrading and expansion of the…
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The New Monthly Column
By Samuel Strait – August 9, 2016 – My take as follows: It would appear that our local Editor of the Triplicate, Robin Fornoff, is making another effort to resurrect what has become a largely irrelevant “opinion page” in the local print newspaper by offering a monthly column produced by Will Meriwether, a history and…
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States Prohibited from Labeling GE Fish
Credit to EarthJustice, “Because the earth needs a good lawyer.”- August 9, 2016 – On July 29th, a new bill was signed into law. The House and Senate passed a bill prohibiting states from labeling Genetically Engineered (GE) fish. Here’s the problem: “The fish in question are the spawn of a company called AquaBounty Technologies…
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Where there’s smoke, there’s Finigan
By Donna Westfall – August 1, 2016 -Sometimes the most interesting news is the news that never makes it to the local mainstream press. This last week it was the political rhetoric out of the mouth of Mr. Finigan at the last board of supervisors meeting. During the supervisor’s update information on their activities since…
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IN GOD WE TRUST
By Donna Westfall – Today is the 60th anniversary of the signing into law In God We Trust Motto. July 30, 1956 President Dwight Eisenhower signed the document as our Official Motto. 60 years later, our own local 1st District Supervisor, Roger Gitlin, joined former presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, in Bakersfield as guest speaker. More than…
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Prayers and Condolences to CalOre Life Flight
Yesterday, July 29th, the CalOre Life Flight headed to Oakland International Airport lost radio contact at 1:05 am and was reported missing. From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: The pilot of a twin-engine Piper PA31 declared an emergency due to smoke in the cockpit around 1 a.m. Friday. The manifest confirms four persons on board:…
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Shut Up and Don’t Question Anything!
By Donna Westfall – July 28, 2016 – One question I’m tempted to ask, “Is this Board of Supervisors (BOS) operating on autopilot?” It reminds me of the Crescent City, City Council of the last eight years. Does our BOS just goes along with what has gone before without ever questioning any items that come up…
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Let’s Set the Record Straight
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – July 28, 2016 -Since the Triplicate in the form of “Censor in Chief,” Robin Fornoff, no longer allows any form of debate when it comes to the writings on the editorial page of the Triplicate, it is left to this space where local people can share ideas and debate…
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Flying Out of Crescent City
By Samuel Strait – July 23, 2016 – [thumbs-rating-buttons] In a recent Coastal Voices piece printed in the local newspaper, our esteemed director of Del Norte County’s regional airport, Matthew Leitner, waxed poetic about the recent circumstances surrounding the Airport commissioner’s decision to go with PenAir as our lone commuter airline with several flights daily…