Archive for Editorials

Contradictory stories

Jul 19, 2009 No Comments

A Lakeside.com editorial…

Councilor Tim Crockett presented contradictory stories to the city council concerning baling equipment used for grass removal on the lower sewer property. And the mayor backed him in what, charitably could be called a “contradiction of facts” that later came out.

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Ex-Canadian says national health care a nightmare

Jun 20, 2009 No Comments

Guest Opinion By Victoria Morrison When I hear people talk about the need for a ‘one-payer’ health system, I have to wonder, “have you lived in a country that has National Health Care?” I’m from Canada, now an American citizen. All my family still lives in Canada. Here are some real facts about ‘free’ health [...]

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Defending the American Dream

Jun 01, 2009 No Comments

Guest Editorial

Jeff Kropf, State Director of Americans For Prosperity, invited me to be part of the security team for the first ever “Defending The American Dream Summit,” in Salem

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Pravda’s Take: American capitalism gone with a whimper

Jun 01, 2009 No Comments

America is finished, over. Marxism is here in full force. The people who survived it for 70 years should know…or is it?

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Crockett needs to publicly apologize, not cover up for self, others

Feb 24, 2009 No Comments

Sometimes just a simple apology goes a long way. But for Tim Crockett, removing the evidence of the sin is the way to correct it. One might call it naive. Unprofessional is another word for it. We have been asked by Lakeside Councilor Crockett, through a third party, to remove an article on Lakesideinfo.com, in [...]

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«L’état, c’est moi»

Feb 21, 2009 No Comments

It’s time to take a new look at what goes wrong when an elected leader becomes a different, altered being once a little power gets inside and travels to his head. Click headline for Lakesideinfo.com editorial.

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MORE NEWS ON FIRE DEPT. FLAP

Lakeside’s Fire Chief Ted Ross focus of cover story in Friday’s Coos Bay World. Read article by reporter Jolene Guzman. click here

Also in theWorld, was it Lakeside or Hauser Fire that was first on the scene in controversial fatal mobile home fire? click here

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A food bank outside of city’s purse strings

Feb 17, 2009 No Comments

The food bank will not be taxpayer funded and was never intended to be, says councilwoman Chrysta Swift in her guest viewpoint.

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Lakeside Fire Chief under fire

Feb 15, 2009 No Comments

Chief Ted Ross and members of the fire board are the subject of a negative campaign being carried out by a disgruntled former employee and members of his family. One of the family members involved was himself fired from the position of Fire Chief for a very short tenure…

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A dog and pony show

Feb 12, 2009 No Comments

Schilling feels there’s been a highly pressurized attempt to silence him by his critics in city government over his opinion piece here last week.

Now, he’s “coming back swinging,” so to speak about that and has more… especially after being asked at the last meeting by the 70-plus-year-old mayor to a fist fight!

Read Schilling’s follow up column by clicking the headline

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One big step for you from the new City Council: A vote for transparency

Jan 29, 2009 No Comments

A Lakeside.com editorial

In a promising debut of the new council, the January agenda didn’t end before action was taken to begin the process to make city hall documents available to you in the comfort of your home.

Perhaps then, you’d learn of the mayor’s $63 per month cell phone no one knew he had (and for which he says he doesn’t use) even before one of the new council member’s did… (read more by clicking the headline)

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