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The reality of living in 29 Palms

One of the benefits of working out of town for a few years is the prospective one gets when you are seeing what it is like to win. While the Victor Valley metro area has seen better days, the business...

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Bill Would Exempt More Classic Cars from Smog Requirement

  Classic car enthusiasts out there may be interested in some pending legislation that would change the smog inspection exemption date from 1976 to 1980, thus freeing up more collectible cars from the...

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How the Tax System Favors Government Workers and Punishes Independent...

The 2016 tax filing deadline is now just one month away. Which makes it timely to point out how unfair our tax system is to middle class workers who want to prepare for their retirements. It is also...

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Public Unions and Special Interests Postpone Undermining Proposition 13

  by Jon Coupal The late songwriter Jim Croce listed a number of imprudent actions in his “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim.” Along with staying out of Jim’s way, he included the admonition not to tug on...

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Supreme Court Decides Caetano v. Massachusetts

On March 21, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Caetano v. Massachusetts, No. 14-10078, reversing the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s decision upholding a Massachusetts law prohibiting the...

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Tim Donnelly vs Paul Cook

Issue 1: Sanctuary Cities Sanctuary cities are a California phenomenon that have now spread nationwide. These cities have a policy of never turning over an illegal alien who has committed a crime over...

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My big fat trip to Sacramento

I’m still here in Sacramento. A trip of a few days has turned out to be a week. I’m here to help my highly intelligent neighbors presenting a fee dispute case before a panel of three Sacramento County...

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Why Protest SBC Fire Takeover

By Ed Vallerand I urge registered voters and property owners in Twentynine Palms to protest the transfer of our locally controlled fire department to County Fire. The Board rushed to select County Fire...

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Open letter to LAFCO and Supervisor James Ramos

  TWENTYNINE PALMS / DESERT HEIGHTS – LAFCO has created a constitutional due process fiasco in connection with the fire Annexation protest matter. LAFCO has usurped our fundamental due process rights...

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Tax hikes: Caltrans is dysfunctional, plain and simple

Profligate Waste Negates Justification for Transportation Tax Hike By Jon Coupal President of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association “A report by the California State Auditor just a couple of months...

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The Origins of Corruption

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Breaking: Entire CERT Board of Directors have resigned

TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA – All of the CERT Board of Direction (Community Emergency Response Team) have suddenly resigned!  Any and all functions and activities of CERT are presumed to be called off. Below...

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It’s time for the discussion

Have Twentynine Palms elected leaders compromised their core values after years in office? Have the “Good Ol Boys” on the councilmen sold their soul to Sir Gary Daigneault and theater 29 crony...

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None dare call it terrorism….

    For the last 7+ years,  we have had a political administration who has constantly refused to call attacks on American Soil by Islamics acts of terrorism. This Morning…A Report From Fox News states:...

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9TH CIRCUIT: NO RIGHT TO CARRY A CONCEALED WEAPON

. In a dissent, Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan said the ruling “obliterates the Second Amendment\\’s right to bear a firearm in some manner in public for self-defense.” Sacramento Bee | SUN,...

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Up Close Comparison: Joshua Tree Hi-Desert Cultural Center and Theatre 29

JOSHUA TREE/ TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA  – While THEATRE 29  provides quality entertainment in the rural desert community of Twentynine Palms, the prestigious and widely renowned nearby Joshua Tree...

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Save the John Calvari Memorial Theater

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”*  Is Theater 29 in violations of government regs and contracts?   Twentynine Palms, California is situated between a rock and a hard place. The majestic Joshua Tree...

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Syrian refugee resettlement coming to California

Turlock Journal June 21, 2016 The California Endowment announced they would grant the International Rescue Committee in Los Angeles (IRC) $306,344 to assist with the relocation of Syrian refugees...

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You do not cure terrorism with disarmament

    I hate starting an article with, I   T O   Y O U   S O!!!!!!! But damn it, I Told You so. I know, I was told that the left does not want my guns and would never use a terrorist event to to further...

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Gun Control? Largest Mass Shooting in US History

How important is gun control? By Jennifer DavidFollow June 12 . Marion, OR THE LARGEST MASS SHOOTING IN US HISTORY HAPPENED December 29,1890. When 297 Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine...

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