FORMING A TAXPAYERS GROUP
BY DONNA WESTFALL With California taxes at record highs and local water/sewer rates at record highs, its time for public action. Organizing and operating our own Local Taxpayer Group to…
STATE OF JEFFERSON UPDATE
OPINION PIECE BY MARK BAIRD We are not finished by a long shot. It took Maine three tries to break away from Massachusetts. The apathy from the Massachusetts legislature toward…
PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS
BY DONNA WESTFALL The biggest surprise is that less than 42% of the registered voters got out and voted in Del Norte County. While walking and driving around town it…
HOW SAFE IS YOUR VOTE
BY DONNA WESTFALL I met with Alissia Northrup, the Registrar of Voters/County Clerk. She is in charge of vote counting. They have 3 Sequoia voting systems called Optech Insight. They…
Incumbent Sheriff Dean Wilson
OPINION PIECE BY DONNA WESTFALL May 31, 2014 – I attended Wilson’s kick-off party for his campaign held at the Lighthouse Inn. I received his sheet on the statistics showing…
Dr. John Randolph Haynes; “Father of the Initiative, Referendum and Recall”
BY DONNA WESTFALL California is one of the states that practice Direct Democracy. This allows citizens to place issues on the state or local ballot so that voters have an…
We Cannot Endorse Jim Wood for State Assembly 2nd District
BY DONNA WESTFALL I met Jim Wood at a Democratic event a couple of years ago. It was during the time of the great fluoride debate and prior to the…
