Getting Congress back on track
The other day, someone I’ve known for years offered a pointed bit of criticism. “It’s easy for people like you…
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Remember When for the week of 7/10/19
100 YEARS AGO … 1919 Advertisement: Winner, Winner-Chicken dinner ! Have a chicken dinner! Chickens for sale—broilers or fryers, 50…
Read moreCelebrate your community on Independence Day!
As I go about my work of helping communities revitalize and reinvent themselves, I often get to see the best…
Read moreGrowing legal hemp in Plumas County
I want to present my side of the story about the proposed temporary moratorium of growing legal industrial hemp in…
Read moreLawmakers should cap patient cost sharing in Medicare Part D
The U.S. House of Representatives health committee unveiled a discussion draft of a new bill designed to cap a Medicare…
Read moreThe need for a county nursing home is clear
I can remember when the issues concerning the closure of the Greenville long term care facility and subsequently, the loss…
Read moreHemp tenders and pretenders: Come to Plumas — we’re wide open
It’s like a script for a western — big-money out-of-county opportunists pitted against a small-town sheriff and an overwhelmed agricultural…
Read moreComplacency is a killer – We all need to be prepared
The members of Lake Almanor Country Club were given an alarming wake-up call in 2012 when the Chips Fire burned…
Read moreLearn 10 Ways to Love Your Brain
This June, during Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month, join the Alzheimer’s Association to help raise awareness of this devastating disease….
Read moreThe dangers of youth vaping are real; here’s what you can do
As a parent, one of the hardest things has been to see my child struggle in his life. I have…
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