Category: This Weeks News
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The DARK Act
Credit to Organic Consumers Association – Credit to Sticker Robot and Zombie Yeti Studios for Anti-Gmo Sticker artwork –July 2, 2016 –Want to know if the food you consume has genetically engineered organisms in them? If you believe you have a right to know what you’re eating, Call your Senators: 888-897-0174 Please oppose the Roberts-Stabenow compromise,…
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FIRE TRAGEDY IN KLAMATH
Submitted by Jody Mangum – June 29, 2016 – In the early morning hours of June 25th, Mr. William Clare’s home on Weber Drive in Klamath went up in flames. He was trapped inside and his friend Timmy Maxey bravely attempted to rescue him, sustaining severe burns to 75% of his body. He is currently…
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17 Year Old Rapist Facing 34 Years in Prison
Submitted by Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office – June 23, 2016 – The Del Norte County District Attorney announced that a Del Norte County jury returned a guilty verdict of Rape in Concert and found true a special allegation of kidnapping for the purpose of rape against Wilson Lor (17) of Crescent City this…
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Latest Sentencing – Krystal Evans
Submitted by Del Norte County District Attorney’s office – June 16, 2016 – The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced that Krystal Starr Evans (35) of Crescent City was sentenced this afternoon by the Honorable William H. Follett to serve nine years, four months in state prison for conspiracy to commit theft and possessing methamphetamine…
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Major roadwork scheduled
CalTrans District 1 – Major roadwork scheduled Friday, June 17 through Thursday, June 23 The following scheduled roadwork has been verified at time of release. Please keep in mind work is weather permitting and subject to change. For updates to this list, visit: www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1rib.htm , or check with the California Highway Information Network (CHIN) at…
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Triplicate Letters to Editor on Life Support
Opinion Piece by Dale Bohling – June 16, 2016 – originally sent to the Triplicate on August 20, 2015, but never published STOP! Call 911! Letters To The Editor on life support! Coastal Voices receiving CPR! Kiss your opinions goodbye and prepare to have voluminous opinions from far flung editors and writers shoved onto the…
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Triplicate’s Editor – Bully, Censor or Both?
By Samuel Strait – June 16, 2016 – The article being referred to by the Mayor was in the Triplicate on June 9,2016, “City wants bulk of grant to go to pool, not RHS”. His, the Mayor”s, Letter to the Editor appears in the Triplicate on June 11,2016. Editor’s mea culpa appears on June 14,2016…
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Big Win for Whistleblowers at Supreme Court
Submitted by National Whistleblower Center Supreme Court Unanimously Supports Whistleblower under False Claims Act Washington, D.C. June 16, 2016. In a unanimous ruling issued today, the United States Supreme Court upheld a whistleblower’s claim in Universal Health Services v. U.S. ex rel. Escobar. The Court, in an opinion by Justice Thomas, affirmed the “implied certification theory” of liability under…
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Can We All Really Be This Stupid?
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – former Vice Mayor/Councilman of the City of Dixon – June 16, 2016 – I would rather not get political with this issue but in retrospect after hearing the comments and diatribes from both sides of the aisle, it will be difficult. I found it very interesting on the death…
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Why has Recycling become a Religion in Del Norte County?
By Samuel Strait – June 10, 2016 – I think we all must remember that time in school when the custodian, janitor back when I was in school, started putting that separate garbage can near the window where we took the remains of our cafeteria school lunch to be disposed. Back then, we were only to…