Category: This Weeks News
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Del Norte Co. Re-Energized, Sept. 12
Pacific Power release – CRESCENT CITY, Calif. (SEPTEMBER 11, 2023) —Pacific Power safely re-energized the transmission lines serving Crescent City and Del Norte County, and all customers have been returned to electric grid service on Sunday. In coordination with Fire Incident Management Teams and Del Norte County Emergency Operations Center, Pacific Power crews made repairs…
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At Last, Impeachment Inquiry into BIDEN
By Donna Westfall – September 12, 2023 From Spencer Brown at Townhall.com: “Just hours after the U.S. House of Representatives returned to the business of the American people following the August recess, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) officially announced that Republicans were opening an impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.” It’s about time. I can’t think…
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Business Spotlight on ELISE’S EATERY
By Donna Westfall – September 10, 2023 Located at 1175 2nd Street, Suite 300 in Crescent City. (707 ) 951-0762. You are definitely going to want to eat there. Our first time out was Saturday around 1:30. After a particularly frustrating morning where nothing seemed to be working out, hubby say’s, “Let’s go get lunch.”…
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The Return of “COVID”
By Kevin Kiley – September 7, 2023 “COVID” is back. I use quotation marks as I’m referring not to the virus, which never went anywhere, but rather to the era (as when we say, “during COVID”): the days, turned months, turned years in which our state and country became something unrecognizable. This was only a matter of…
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TRI- TRY, AND TRY AGAIN AGENCY!
By Branden Bieber – September 5, 2023 Not sure why I’ve involved myself with the quagmire of local politics, but endured another publicmeeting of the Tri-Agency on Thursday the 31 st . The meeting was another example of our swellinggovernment’s incapability to maintain infrastructure, combat the homeless and substance abuse,manage natural resources, or generate ANY…
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A Tale Of Two Fires
Commentary by Samuel Strait – September 1, 2023 For just over two weeks we have had the ongoing saga of a wildfire atour very doorstep which our illustrious governor has finallyacknowledged just might be a burden to the local community. What aguy! In contrast, near to his highness, in the North Sacramento Valley,where there is…
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California fails to be economically competitive
By Jon Coupal – August 31, 2023 For political observers, the debate between conservative and progressive politicians over the impact of various policies can be entertaining as well as enlightening. Of course, politicians tend to either stretch the truth or cherry-pick various statistics to support their positions. Take, for example, arguments related to poverty. According…
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Kids. v. Newsom
By Kevin Kiley – August 31, 2023 The court has ruled: Gavin Newsom and his enablers will go on trial for the catastrophic harm they caused our students during the COVID school shutdown. In a case brought by California students, the court denied the state’s motion for summary judgment and set the trial for November 13. The…
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ACTION ALERT: Protect Prop. 13! Call the Capitol to say “NO on ACA 13” and “NO on ACA 1”
By Donna Westfall – August 31, 2023 If you can take 10 minutes and make these calls, you may very well protect Prop 13. Most have live people answering the phone. Only a couple had answering machines. Simply put, I said, “I’m Donna Westfall from Crescent City strongly urging (insert name) to vote NO on…
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Maitreya Mountain Village Devastated By Fire
By Dan Schultz – August 28, 2023 Update on the status of Our Sustainable Ecovillage: This is our situation: while there were some structures that the forest fire spared, every LITTLE thing is gone. Books, seeds, pads of paper, pots and pans, pictures/albums of your children, every single TOOL, batteries, photovoltaic systems, etc. Picture every useful, handy, and…