Patricia Steele-Bettega passed away Friday, June 13, 2014. Better known to her friends and family as Patsy, she was born January 9th, 1961, in Santa Rosa, California. She went to school at Margaret Keating School, Crescent Elk Middle School and Del Norte High School. Patsy was a member of the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians.…

A poll conducted by WPA Research, between June 9th to June 10th, showed Mississippi state Senator Chris McDaniel up eight-points, outside the margin of error of 4.4 percent, over Senator Thad Cochran a little less than a week from Tuesday’s runoff election. The poll of 500 likely GOP primary runoff voters had McDaniel leading Cochran…

Even as Congressman Paul Ryan ripped into IRS Commissioner John Koskinen during an appearance before Congress last Friday, for not being forthcoming, the Commissioner failed to mention how the agency used the services of an email archiving company even after former IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed. Lerner’s computer supposedly crashed in June 2011, but…

Washoe County District Judge Lidia Stiglich has issued a preliminary injunction to stop the layoff of 32 Reno Firefighters. While it’s not a final decision, but an effort “to preserve the status quo” until a decision is reached, the Judge wrote because the labor dispute is being heard before the Nevada Employee-Management Relations Board, it…

A federal judge says putting fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border may be discriminatory. The 2006 federal law orders the construction of fencing or a wall along the most vulnerable portions of the nearly 2,000-mile southern border. Judge Beryl Howell was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Barack Obama…

Senator Harry Reid is fixated with the Koch brothers. It’s hard to describe the nonstop onslaught against the billionaire brothers especially when he goes on tirades like this: “The Koch brothers and other moneyed interests are influencing the politics in a way not seen for generations. Republican senators have come to the floor to defend the Koch…

U.S. Air Force Staff Sergeant Melinda Mier of the 152nd Airlift Wing Public Affairs in Reno, Nevada released a picture taken Saturday, June 21, 2014, marking the first mission flown by the 192nd Airlift Squadron, with an all-female flight crew. From left to right are Lieutenant Stephenson, Staff Sergeant Morales, Major Moynihan, Captain Magee, Master…

Johnny Jones passed away peacefully in his sleep June 15, 2014. He was born September 20, 1938 and raised in Chico, California, the oldest son of Albert and Marie (Palmer) Jones. Johnny went to work for the California Division of Forestry (now Cal Fire) after high school in 1956. He met and married Corliss Purse…

Fox News’ Megyn Kelly confronted former Vice President Dick Cheney after he and his daughter, Liz, published an op-ed blasting President Barack Obama over his handling of Iraq. The pair wrote in The Wall Street Journal that “rarely” has a president ever been “so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.” Kelly…

Jules Legier passed away June 14, 2014.  He was my civics teacher in high school in 1977. He had lived in Del Norte County from 1959 to 2012 before moving to Eureka. His family roots were in Humboldt County, where he was born December 20, 1930, especially the community of Pepperwood. After serving four years…