I have buyers searching for fixer homes in Loyalton. Please reach out to me if you know of or have a property that needs rehabilitation! We could use some sparkling homes in the area! Thank you.
Bonnie Jessee
bjessee@dicksonrealty.com
Dear Editor,
I guess I will have to secede from California. I can't leave it. It is still my home and, of course, I love it, but the pride is gone. I'll still pay my taxes to keep the collectors off my porch, but my heart won't be in it.
It is not that Governor Gavin Newsom pushed for a gerrymandering scheme to appear the hero for Democrats in an ambition to run for President. It is not that he was willing to renege on his promise to govern on behalf of all of his constituents and tossed under the bus Republican voters and independents, half the voters in CA, to “save democracy”. Though it sounds a lot like “taxation without representation”, and though I disagree with so many of his previous actions, that is not why I am seceding from California.
I have lived in CA for over 75 years. I have worked, paid taxes, supported local businesses, served my community, volunteered my talents, been a thoughtful voter. I have been respectful of differing opinions. Kind of a stab in the back, to have a positive, non-partisan, constitutional process of mapping California districts for representatives overturned to serve National Democratic Party interests.
I am disappointed that so many of my fellow Califor
nians would buy into this hypocrisy. Save democracy by denying democracy? The passage of Prop 50 is dishonest and disenfranchises those of us who maintain California's beautiful rural regions. Our voice should not be diminished for such a farce. Our right to representation is violated with the gerrymandering of Prop 50. It will be hard to take an oath for a job or board or position that calls for allegiance to the Constitution of California, when it is taken so lightly by my state leaders and their fawning followers.
M. Filippini
I am awake (barely) and thinking about - in general - when was the last time you actually wrote a letter? I mean in cursive or neat printing. Yeah, maybe a short note or quip in a birthday or Christmas card. But it's been 40-50 years since most of us turned to the keyboard - not a typewriter, but an electronic keyboard. Sending emails or text, or perhaps printing a document out and signing it and mailing it. I started thinking about this after, and while, readiing these old letters (yes from “girlfriends” - that I no longer know who they were.) Perfect cursive or quite good printing, maybe on lined white binder type paper or on personalized writing paper. That's what they were. These written letters stopped in the mid '70s. Even letters from Mom and Dad and Grandma (if they're still alive) stopped handwriting them in the '70s or maybe early '80s.
How emotions were put on paper, and everyday happenings were described, and invitations to special events were given, all in Actual Writing, is amazing. Yes, we all write notes to ourselves, to remember to do something or a “Honey I've run to the store” note. I write out my shopping list but I see people looking at their phones, while taking items off the shelf.
Writing seems to be gone. The silliness imagined. The expressions drawn by hand, the SWAK or ILU on the back of the envelope, and swirls maybe. (Just an off hand thought - maybe this is why the postal service is losing money. All of this is why Writing a letter seemed so much more personal. Yes, I can use run on sentences and emojis and capitalization (some can even use different font styles and sizes. Not me. And it's saddening.
Russell Rosewood, Calpine
Editor,
Someone will have to explain to me why Trump and his associates are trying so hard to cover up President Trump's long and close friendship with Mr. Epstein and his deviant ways. After Trump University then stiffing working people, convictions for paying off a porn star, the Gloden Shower thing, probable tax fraud, and ending so many white-collar policing agencies (CFPB, IRS, VA, IGs, etc.) did not bother his base, this Epstein thing has traction. Who woulda thunk it?
There is another thing that has my attention. With the weakening of all these agencies and Trumps slimy Justice Dept the United States is going be known as the “Kingdom of Astounding Fraud”. Buckle your safety belt and keep an eye on your bank, insurance companies and credit cards.
Don McKechnie
Sierraville, Sparks, within sight of the Milky Way
THAT STRANGE SMELL in Loyalton is hot asphalt from the roof repair at the City Center. At Tuesday's meeting, Council member Sue McIlravy stated $12,222 of Prop. 218 funds were deposited
