Category: This Weeks News
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Thoughts on 5th District Race
Submitted by Bob Berkowitz – May 9, 2016 – I want to thank all of you who voted on Tuesday. Voting is a right that we enjoy and it gives you the power to express your feelings in a meaningful way. By voting for Linda Sutter, Terri Colton and me, over 60 percent of you…
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THANKS Crescent City for FREE Brush Pick Up
By Donna Westfall – June 2, 2016 – FREE is my favorite four letter “F” word. Each year, right after Memorial Day, Crescent City truck and scoopers offer a free brush pick-up service IF the homeowner or renter will put their brush into the street next to the curb. This year, 54 loads at 5…
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Public’s Assistance Requested
Submitted by Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office – May 7, 2016 – The Investigations Bureau of the Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating David Ken Lee and Peter Meng Lee as persons of interest in an ongoing kidnapping for rape and rape in concert investigation. David Lee…
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This Is Why Roger Gitlin Needs to Be Re-Elected
By Samuel Strait – June 6, 2016 – Over the past couple of weeks the letters to the editor in the Triplicate regarding current supervisor Roger Gitlin have put me in mind of those seminar callers who call radio programs and trot out the same spiel over and over again in order to establish a…
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Is the Triplicate All About Censorship?
By Donna Westfall – June 5, 2016 – Remember when you could write a 400 word Letter to the Editor at the Triplicate? Remember when they didn’t change your words or meaning or context or ask you to tone it down? Do you know why they only allow one Letter to Editor per person per…
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70 Years of Poisoning the Public With Fluoridation
By Jill Jennings-McElheney – June 5, 2016 – Verified Water Poisoned Victim, EPA Region IV Author of “Sentinel Son” to be Released in 2017 Letter to: “Neugeboren, Steven” <Neugeboren.Steven@epa.gov>, Enviornmental Protection Agency “David E. Benor” <david.benor@hhs.gov>, Health and Human Services “Joanna L. Stettner” <czl8@cdc.gov>, Centers for Disease Control “<bruce.androphy@nih.gov>” National Institute of Health Today is…
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The People vs James M. Coddington
The Del Norte County District Attorney filed a felony complaint June 1, 2016 charging James McKenzie Coddington (30) of Crescent City with three felony counts, five special allegations and a misdemeanor in connection with his operation of a stolen Harley Davidson motorcycle and pursuit by law enforcement just before noon on May 30th. Coddington has…
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IMPORTANT INFO ABOUT VOTING ON JUNE 7TH PRIMARY
By Donna Westfall – June 1, 2016 – When I walked in my ballot to the County, I didn’t have my glasses on and asked one of the gals in the office if all I had to do was sign my name on the envelope. Answer, “NO.” YOU MUST PUT IN YOUR RESIDENCE ADDRESS OR…
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Bad Judgment On The Part Of McClure?
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – June 1, 2016 – In the midst of all the other things that have gone wrong for Ms. McClure in the past couple of weeks, two other items of note have come to the surface which speak to her lack of judgement when it comes to the financial health of…
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Failure of the Fourth Estate and our Political Elite as Well
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – May 31, 2016 – Having taken a bit of time to look around in someone else’s local political patch, I’ve come to realize that the kind of things we have unfolding on a regular basis here in Del Norte County have become the norm in politics in rural America and…