Category: This Weeks News
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Town Hall Meeting with Sutter Coast CEO Mitch Hanna and Dr. Greg Duncan
Summary of Opening Statement by Greg Duncan, M.D. Sutter Health and Sutter Coast Hospital both tax-exempt charities. Sutter Health claims to “act openly and truthfully in everything we do.” As you evaluate both sides of the Sutter Health conflict, please consider three questions: (1) Does Sutter act openly in everything they do? Fact: Despite multiple…
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Enough is Enough
“Enough is enough,” say the Board of Directors and Officers of the Crescent City-Del Norte County Taxpayers Association upon hearing of the City’s plan to increase the sewer rate another 25%. The Taxpayers Association plans on initiating a lawsuit against the City for malfeasance for the city’s refusal to investigate. Board member Wes Nunn had this to say,…
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BlackHawk Pistol Story – Part 4. The Unsung Hero
BY DONNA WESTFALL Where we left off on Part 1, 2 and 3 of this story: County resident, Dave Egan, had his door bashed in by a SWAT type operation of the Sheriffs Department, beaten unconscious, and the only item named on the warrant was never found in the raid (the BlackHawk Pistol). Yet these Sheriffs…
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Brookings Chocolate Festival
Pictures by Doug Westfall WHERE: Brookings-Harbor High School, 625 Pioneer Rd., Brookings, Or. WHEN: Sunday February 15th 10-5 ADMISSION $1 FOR ADULTS, CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER FREE Booths filled with chocolate fudge, chocolate covered coffee beans, truffles, chocolate covered nuts; with other booths filled with jewelry, crocheted and felted hats, quilts and pot holders, chain saw…
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SUTTER’S EXCLUSIVE HEALTH PLAN EXCLUDES LOCAL PHYSICIANS
by Kevin Caldwell, M.D. and Donna Sund, D.O. Many readers are aware of the new local EPO Health Plan being offered by Sutter Health, Anthem, and CalPERS. You may or may not be aware that Redwood Medical Offices and several other local offices are not currently listed on the provider panel. Here’s why: The new…
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Betrayal by Sutter Coast Hospital BOARD
OPINION PIECE BY DALE L. BOHLING Unless there is a momentous legal intervention in the scheming, conniving attempt by Sutter Health Corporation to steal Sutter Coast Hospital all Del Norte and Curry county residents will face an ongoing devastating community health crisis of huge proportions. And who is this calamity attributable to? Insatiable greed of a…
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Protesting the Upcoming 25% Sewer Rate Increase
BY DONNA WESTFALL Monday is a holiday. The next City Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, February 17th. At that meeting they will be asking for a 25% sewer rate increase. The agenda totals 382 pages, so agenda item number 14, the last item of the night will discuss the sewer rates. To stop the…
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Joseph Goebbels Was Right
GUEST COLUMNIST MICHAEL CEREMELLO, Former Vice-Mayor/Councilman City of Dixon “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus…
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Solid Waste Management Authority Board Meeting
BY DONNA WESTFALL Item 5.4 was voted on and the count was 3 to 1 in favor of releasing the confidential report by Donald Scanlon dated July 16, 2013. This report will be made available for viewing to the public at the Solid Waste Management Authority. Absent at the Board meeting was Martha McClure. Background: Originally in October…
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Chinese Billionaire Tycoon Executed
CREDIT TO South China Morning Post. BY DONNA WESTFALL 49 year old billionaire, Liu Han, was executed Monday, February 9th. Once ranked as China’s 230th richest person, Liu was tried last year, along with 36 others, accused of murder and running the so-called “Mafia-style” gang of loan sharks, gun runners, theft, embezzlement and contract killers. Liu’s public…