Most wonder why foreigners coming here legally or illegally can order from the public benefits menu for US citizens. It was not always this way. Furthermore, people question why politicians of either party do not correct the egregious giveaway of taxpayer dollars.
A longtime neighbor and resident of downtown Marysville, CA while out for a walk stopped to explain that he and his wife were moving. They visited relatives in Oklahoma at Christmas and there was no looking back to the Left Coast.
Yuba County Counsel Michael J. Ciccozzi wrote an opinion piece in the Appeal Democrat last week to explain why Nevada County law firm Colantuono, Highsmith and Whatley, PC, did not file Yuba’s Measure K (sales tax increase) brief with the Appellate Court on time.
For longtime local residents that have experienced the 1955, 1986 and 1997 floods in Yuba-Sutter Counties, you can skip all the studies and maps. These people would tell you develop more flood control, evacuate early and improve communication.
The government in California is not only corrupt and incompetent but very expensive at every level. It is grossly overstaffed and routinely underperforms.
Incumbent Yuba Water Agency (YWA) director Charlie Mathews was interviewed recently on the Yuba Sutter Political Spotlight. It can be viewed on the Spotlight’s Facebook page.
It was a good time Sunday talking to some incarcerated youth about the importance of honesty. God drafted the Ten Commandments. Since people cannot follow them California politicians alone make-up a thousand or so new laws every year to keep people in line.
Sutter County Supervisor candidate John Buckland’s arrest January 10, 2020 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino raised some questions.
America has been uniquely known as a cultural ‘melting pot’ where millions came to embrace the ideals of equal opportunity, freedom and liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. New arrivals learned English often taught by employers and embraced the immigration process to learn the basics of the nation’s history while adding their uniqueness to the ‘pot.’
This month we acknowledge the birth of scientist Charles Darwin. Born February 12, 1809 (died April 19, 1882) Darwin proposed the theory that all creatures evolved from something else rather than being created by God as explained in the Book of Genesis.
If you’re an unborn child, a senior citizen or are terminally ill, California can be deadly. Abortions are free everywhere, even accessible on public college campuses. And since 2015, assisted suicide is legal, as well.
Did Yuba County Supervisors declare that no tax dollars were used to promote Measure K to increase sale taxes by 1%? That’s what citizens are claiming was said at a Yuba Supervisor candidates’ forum recently.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution reads, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
You probably didn’t notice particularly if you haven’t been checked lately but sexually transmitted infections (STI) are booming. The myth is that you can live a sexually promiscuous lifestyle and if you notice no symptoms then you are well.
Many Western and other industrialized nations have done their best to abort themselves out of existence. Social engineers, the supposed ‘best and brightest,’ have touted that the earth is running out of fill-in-the-blank…space, water, oil, food, normal weather and so on. They persuade that it is merciful to murder the smallest and most vulnerable, sterilize women, and spread abortifacient pills far and wide to thin the herd.
A video posted on Facebook showed Third District Assemblyman James Gallagher attempting to purchase two cartons of shotgun shells at Sutter Orchard Supply, the popular farm and sporting goods store in Yuba City. Gallagher, a hunter, is no novice at purchasing ammo, but now in Commifornia he was rejected.
One of the most remembered lines in American cinema is from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke. After Captain (Strother Martin), the sadistic prison warden beats to the ground petty criminal Luke played by Paul Newman Captain says, “What we've got here is failure to communicate."
In 1978, Californians voted to change the way their property was being taxed saving thousands of owners from losing their homes and commercial real estate. In the 1970’s, due to a combination of severe inflation, population growth, and increased housing demand properties were routinely reassessed spiking taxes.
An epidemic of taxes, fees and egregious regulatory obstacles have afflicted the lives of citizens though not the care of law makers or environmentalists. In fact, extreme greenies pray people leave so the state may return to the wild.