Category: This Weeks News
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Oath of Office Ceremony
Monday, January 5, 2015 at noon. Be present at the swearing-in of not only Erik Apperson as the new Sheriff, but also Darren McElfresh as the new Judge. 2015 may prove to be one of great significance. With the changing of the “guard” so to speak, will the people of Crescent City/Del Norte County live…
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California Prison Population Drops Slightly
CREDIT TO: Katie Orr, Capital Public Radio News The number of inmates housed in California’s 35 state prisons has ticked down slightly compared to last year. There are currently about 116,000 inmates in prison, down from nearly 119,000 last year. California has been under a federal court order to reduce its prison population. Jeffrey Callison…
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Rain, Rain, and more Rain
PICTURES BY TED SCOTT[cincopa AYFASMcIToZC] Click on the picture to view more pictures
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Shoot a Cop, Escape to Cuba
BY DONNA WESTFALL Did you know that thousands of protesters mobbed the New York streets on December 13th, chanting: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.” It doesn’t take much to influence people. The two New York police officers, who were Hispanic, Rafael Ramos, and Asian-American, Weijian Liu, were killed in cold…
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Howard Jarvis Tax Association Grades for Assembly Members and State Senators
CREDIT TO TAXING TIMES, PUBLICATION OF HJTA Here’s one report card helping Californians gauge performance on tax related issues both positive and negative. Positive proposals include bills strengthening transparency provisions for the reporting of local property parcel taxes; negative bills include tax increases and direct attacks on Prop 13. During 2014, HJTA changed their scoring…
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Cudo’s To Dale Trigg’s District Attorney Office
On December 18, 2014, the Honorable William H. Follett sentenced Donald K. Webb (32) to 9 years in state prison, the maximum allowed by law, following a guilty verdict by a Del Norte County jury last month for a first degree residential burglary. The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office did not make a plea offer…
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What’s Happening and What to Look Forward to on January 5th.
BY DONNA WESTFALL Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev returned to court Thursday for the first time since he was arraigned in July 2013; jury selection starts January 5th. Raunchy movie comedy about assassinating North Korea’s leader, The Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, set to open Christmas Day, was canceled. Federal sources are linking hack…
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Tools for Combating Crime
BY DONNA WESTFALL Code Enforcement form – To bring up a copy, go to Read More, click on Code Enforcement form. Here’s one more tool to work with in combating crime. Whether you’re part of a neighborhood watch group or not, it’s one of those simple steps you an take to start the ball rolling.…
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CORRUPT ILLOGICALITY AND WHITE COLLAR CRIME
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL Have you heard about the former manager at Madoff’s firm being sentenced to six years in prison? Apparently, Annette Bongiorno worked nearly 40 years for the firm and was indicted in 2010 not as a coldly calculating participant in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme but willfully blinded herself to the “corrupt illogicality”…