Category: This Weeks News
-
THE FARM BILL: IT’S A DUNG DEAL
BY DONNA WESTFALL CREDIT TO TOM SCHATZ, PRESIDENT, COUNCIL FOR CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE AND REPORTER SHARYL ATKISSON On January 28, 2014, a letter was sent to the U.S. House of Representatives by Tom Schatz, strongly urging members to oppose H.R. 2642, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013. The letter reads as follows:…
-
SOLAR JOBS INCREASE; FEDERAL TAX CREDITS EXTENDED
BY DONNA WESTFALL Credit to THE SOLAR FOUNDATION On January 27th, 2014, The Solar Foundation released its highly anticipated National Solar Jobs Census 2013, which found that the U.S. solar industry employed 142,698 Americans as of November 2013. This figure includes the addition of 23,682 solar workers over the previous year, representing 19.9 percent growth in employment since September…
-
WHERE THERE IS SMOKE THERE IS FIRE; JEFFERSON STATE OF MINE GONE ROGUE?
OPINION PIECE BY LINDA SUTTER And so was the case at the meeting Tuesday night, February 4th, at Del Norte County Fairgrounds, representing Jefferson State movement. A small brochure was handed to every person who walked through the door of what to expect from the State of Jefferson. The brochure spoke to lower state…
-
THE DOUBLE CROSS; THE CASE FOR THE STATE OF JEFFERSON
BY DONNA WESTFALL Like many others sitting in the audience at the Fairgrounds Tuesday night, February 4th, I’ve been proud to be a born and bred Californian. Proud up to the point where now I’m a disillusioned Californian wondering if things will ever change for the better. I can’t help noticing that the mind-set of our…
-
RELAX CALIFORNIA
BY KATHERINE KELLY Recently in the headlines are alarming reports about the massive starfish die-off on the west coast. Most reports I read point a hysterical finger at the radiation from the Fukashima disaster as the probable cause. This might be more likely if the problems with oceanic health happened suddenly, and only since the…
-
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN, DIED TODAY AGE 46
Credit to IMDb Picture credit to Wikipedia Film and stage actor and theater director Philip Seymour Hoffman was born in the Rochester, New York in 1967. After becoming involved in high school theatrics, he attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, graduating with a B.F.A. degree in Drama in 1989. He made his…
-
LEFTOVER COFFEE
BY DONNA WESTFALL Are you like so many others that pour your leftover coffee down the drain and don’t think twice about it? That’s how is was in our home until just recently. All of a sudden I looked at the coffee pot, poured the remaining cups of coffee into a measuring cup (2 cups);…
-
STARVING IN THE LAND OF THE FREE
BY KATHERINE KELLY With the expiration of the 2009 economic stimulus, on November 1st the SNAP benefit program (food stamps) was cut by $5 billion. In California, the cuts will reduce SNAP spending by $457 million. There are plans by the Republican led House to further decimate this life-saving program by cutting another $39 billion…
-
DECRIMINALIZE DRUGS?
DONNA WESTFALL Have our law enforcers been pushed into a war they did not start and cannot win? Is it even possible to stop a trade where $500 of cocaine can bring $100,000 on America’s streets? Is our drug war tantamount to our Viet Nam war where is no winner? Lots of entrepreneurial spirits are going…
-
1 THING TO SAVE THE PLANET – STOP USING STYROFOAM
BY DONNA WESTFALL It keeps your hot drinks hot, and cold drinks cold. It protects eggs in the carton. Restaurants send you home with leftovers in styrofoam cartons. Shipping computers and electronics are safer packed in Styrofoam. Why then should we stop using it? Because it’s not recyclable. It will be around for hundreds of years…