Category: This Weeks News

BY DONNA WESTFALL How many of you were appalled to read this article “State OK With Change to Loan” in the local newspaper on November 25th? The part that was appalling was this: “The State Water Resources Control Board last week approved a graduated repayment plan and a zero-percent interest rate as Crescent City seeks…

1. You’re not Bill Cosby. Sexual allegations about America’s Dad make him seem more like a creepy uncle. Closer to home, sexual allegations have been lodged against local CPA and fairgounds supporter, Kevin Hartwick. Case #CVPI 14-1084. 2. We’re not seeing businesses burned down due to things like the Grand Jury decision in Ferguson not…

CREDIT TO ORGANIC BYTES “MILLIONS AGAINST MONSANTO” Get on the Bus! December 10th. Organic Consumers Association is organizing busloads of people to attend the hearing in Washington, D.C., followed by a rally and an organic lunch. But if there is to be an impact and attract the attention of Congress and the media, they need…

BY DONNA WESTFALL It was touch and go there all day long as the rain continued to descend on our town. Finally, it stopped and Santa’s Light Parade was good to go. 58 entries were there. Catching 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes respectively for their floats were: Enchanted Florist, ReMax and Andrews Green Ark Pet…

BY DONNA WESTFALL CREDIT TO DR. MERCOLA There’s just no other way to put it.  Talking, discussing, researching and writing about chronic diarrhea is the pits. The only reason to do it is to bring awareness to a condition that at one time or another all of us have experienced. What happens when you have to…

BY DONNA WESTFALL Back in 2007, when we were ignorant about how City Hall works, we actually went in and counted enough protests to stop the sewer rate from doubling. This is what we did wrong.  We didn’t sue the City.  That’s the only way this City listens to the people.  We should have sued…

OPINION PIECE BY KATHERINE KELLY Our City is on the verge of defaulting on the sewer loan and have just gone on bended knee to plead with the State to nix any interest payment on that $43 million loan and make payment “adjustments” so we can stay above water.  But that’s not all our City…

BY DONNA WESTFALL Burning the president in effigy.  Power of the NARCOS. Cops living in poverty because of low wages.  Murders of innocent college students. In the last decade more than 100,000 have died and 27,000 have gone missing.  November 20, is usually a day reserved for the celebration of Mexico’s 1910-1917 Revolution, but Mexicans…

  BY DONNA WESTFALL     UPDATE:  November 26, 2014 The vote is going to a recount.  Read Letters to the Editor for the most current update. November 13, 2014: Notice anything peculiar? Let’s start with the fact that Prop 92, (the purpose  – to label products containing genetically modified organisms), was being outspent three…

BY MICHAEL CEREMELLO, FORMER VICE MAYOR, COUNCILMAN CITY OF DIXON   An interesting development in the ongoing waste water battles between the State of California unelected bureaucrats and the cities being forced to do unnecessary and costly projects saw the chickens come home to roost on Tuesday at the Joe Serna center in Sacramento.  The…