Category: This Weeks News
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How Cities Violate Voters Rights. The Case Involving Sewer Rate Increases
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL Just received this press release from the City of Dixon Taxpayer’s Association: “At Tuesday’s Dixon City Council Meeting the Council approved up to $200,000 for the City Attorney to proceed with legal action against the Dixon Chapter of the Solano County Taxpayers Association (DC-SCTA). The purpose of the legal action is…
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Another Day In Thailand
BY JAIME YARBROUGH Think the waiting room at Sutter Coast hospital is crowded? Try typical day at this hospital in Chiang Rai, Thailand. More pictures from Thailand.
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January 27th Is International Holocaust Day
BY DONNA WESTFALL 70 years ago today, the Russians liberated Auschwitz. This date of remembrance was chosen by the United Nations because it falls on the anniversary of the liberation in 1945 of the Auschwitz death camp, the Nazis’ most notorious death camp and a symbol of the evil inflicted across the European continent. In…
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Time in Thailand
BY JAIME YARBROUGH From somewhere between Chiang Rai and Mae Sai, Thailand. The first few days were spent going places doing things. Have managed to talk to a couple people who appeared to be Anglo’s and only today did I find that a good place to find ‘expats’ is through a local magazine in Chiang…
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California’s Chief Justice: ‘Hard to Say the Death Penalty Is Working’
CREDIT TO SCOTT SHAFER, KQED The seven members of the California Supreme Court spend about 25 percent of their time on death penalty appeals, an extraordinary allocation of scarce resources that no doubt frustrates them. In an interview with KQED this week, Scott Shafer asked Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye to assess the state of capital punishment in…
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Are You Ready to Stop – 20% Sewer Rate Increase?
SUBMITTED BY THE CRESCENT CITY-DEL NORTE COUNTY TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION Very soon now, the Crescent City, City Council, will be voting to approve a series of sewer rate increases. 5% a year for the next 4 years at least. And it won’t end there. The City will never have enough money for their sewer system. They…
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Aftermath of Charlie Hebdo Attack
CREDIT TO YAHOO.COM NEWS The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, had a weekly circulation of 60,000. After the attack, which left 17 people dead in addition to the three Islamist killers, circulation reached 7 million, mostly in France and neighboring Belgium with 700,000 going overseas. Since the attack, Al-Qaeda’s Yemen branch has claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack was, according to one…
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Q & A On Sutter’s New Health EPO Plan
SUBMITTED BY DR. GREG DUNCAN This later version of the Q and A on Sutter’s new health plan adds a sentence about Sutter not offering local independent physicians and other independent providers an opportunity to be on the provider panel. This is all public information. This is the text version, identical to the attachment: Summary…
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February 9th is Toothache Day
CREDIT TO: www.holidayinsights.com February 9th, Monday Just so happen to have a toothache today. Going to see dentist tomorrow. No one knows how this day got started, but there is some speculation that this date was selected becasue it is the date that Hershey Corporation was founded. Flower of the day: Love-in-a- Mist
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Sutter Health’s Last Ditch Efforts To Regionalize
BY LINDA SUTTER SUTTER HEALTH’S LAST ATTEMPT TO REGIONALIZE In a last ditch effort to force regionalization, Sutter Health met with CalPers (California Public Employees’ Retirement System), and Anthem Blue Cross to make a “deal” with CalPERS members and employees. In a letter received by CalPERS members: “CalPERS has approved of a new ANTHEM BLUE CROSS…