A coalition of local and regional organizations has successfully prevented the sale of Giddings Boatworks, a critical port infrastructure asset located at the Charleston Marina, to Whit Industries, a company owned by Michael Whitworth Gantenbein. The proposed sale raised alarm due to evidence linking Gantenbein to neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups,
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In response to federal Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) requirements, the City of North Bend and the Port of Coos Bay have adopted resolutions to ensure that public entities do not engage contractors who fail to comply with these laws. This move aims to prevent public funds from supporting businesses associated with discriminatory practices.
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Earth Day Promise: In 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new effort to protect old forests, which are key to the fight against climate change. But it hasn’t made much of a difference.
Logging Continues: The Bureau of Land Management has allowed timber companies to cut these forests at a faster pace since Biden’s executive order than in the decade that preceded it.
For those interested in an exposé of the misrepresentations Frank made at the debate see this enlightening interview with Dr Grimmer.
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Taylor has drunk so much Kool-Aid that even God couldn’t convince him Trump lost the 2020 election. He remains as defiant as convicted felon and election conspiracist Tina Peters at her sentencing.
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Grimmer argued that Frank’s methodology is flawed and his “conclusions are based on profound statistical errors” It would be impossible for me to do justice to Grimmer’s presentation but I will share two slides that demonstrate Frank’s turnout rate prediction is off by 8.54% in Coos County.
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if you’re not someone who, like me, spends all day working on statistics and data, six order polynomials and nearly perfect correlations — it sounds like he’s uncovered something really impressive.”
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Main also implies a nefarious connection between democracy and socialism. Considering he has worked decades for socialist organizations like Coos County Government I’m not sure what point he is trying to make other than to betray his own prejudice and ignorance.
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there is no question Main knew what he was doing with that dog whistle, “access to kids!” Some of his buddies in the audience reacted as Main expected with nasty comments about keeping hands off children, etc…. It was probably the dirtiest thing I have ever witnessed him do and in my opinion it was a threat to the school as well.
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Taylor had a responsibility to disclose the controversial nature of Frank’s “research.” When a prosecutor presents a witness with a checkered past they must disclose that past to the jury, for example. While Taylor probably didn’t bother to vet Frank in advance of inviting him to Coos County I personally, as did many others, notified him of Frank’s deficiencies. Additionally, I requested that a rebuttal be given the same 15 minutes afforded to Frank.
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Our election-denying, January 6th insurrectionist county commissioner thoroughly humiliated himself last week when he imposed his pet conspiracy theory on the regular board meeting. Before I explain let me remind everyone of the harassment our county clerk and elections staff endured during the 2022 election cycle and how Rod Taylor refused to take any responsibility for the ill-treatment perpetrated by members of his organization
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Every self respecting democracy loving American should make it a point to attend these meetings, first and third Tuesdays in Coquille, and I would suggest wearing an orange tie to support the former president doing his time in Riker’s Island or at the very least on house arrest with an ankle monitor.
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