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Category: Opinion

IN MY OPINION — WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP AT THE LIBRARY DISTRICT

Posted onOctober 7, 2022October 23, 2022

JoAnn Kalenak, Senior Blogger, DCCR — The Library District told the public in this morning’s KVNF newscast that a $536,000 unbudgeted expense to build a hastily planned new branch in Delta isn’t the cause for their current fiscal woes. Instead, Read on…

CategoriesDelta County focus, Opinion

OPINION: SPREAD THE WEALTH AND LEAVE TAXES ALONE

Posted onJanuary 20, 2022January 20, 2022

JOANN KALENAK, SENIOR BLOGGER/DCCR — Our hospital is in trouble — and the Delta Health Board of Directors is leaving no stone unturned to find ways to get out of the financial crisis in which they find themselves. On January Read on…

CategoriesDelta County focus, Opinion

OPINION: Nothing frivolous about defending public trust

Posted onAugust 11, 2021August 11, 2021

JOANN KALENAK, SENIOR BLOGGER/DCCR — In his latest editorial column, DCI publisher Dennis Anderson sounds like a mouthpiece for county government. After I read his commentary on the July 20 Independent Ethics Commission hearing concerning a complaint I’d filed in Read on…

CategoriesOpinion

OPINION: School board can’t take the heat

Posted onJune 19, 2021June 19, 2021

  JOANN KALENAK, SENIOR BLOGGER, DCCR — Delta County School board members wasted no time putting Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education (CHSE) back on the agenda — only slightly more transparently, this time — in response to DCCR’s complaint that they Read on…

CategoriesCommissioner meeting highlights, DCCR Newsletter, Delta County focus, Opinion

OPINION: Commissioners, stop scapegoating others

Posted onMarch 3, 2021May 23, 2021

JoAnn Kalenak, DCCR Senior Blogger — With all levels of government working to do more with less, you’d expect a heightened interest in improving cooperation among government organizations. It stands to reason that better cooperation and savvy negotiation, could provide Read on…

CategoriesDelta County focus, Opinion

OPINION: Ignoring COVID crisis won’t make it disappear

Posted onDecember 7, 2020December 7, 2020

JOANN KALENAK, DCCR SENIOR BLOGGER — As elected officials, I’m sure the current COVID crisis has been an unexpected challenge that County Commissioners were not fully prepared to take on. And who could blame them? Who would have thought that Read on…

CategoriesDelta County focus, Opinion

OPINION: County Commissioners must back the badge

Posted onNovember 20, 2019November 20, 2019

JOANN KALENAK, DCCR SENIOR BLOGGER — Delta County Ballot Issue 1A, commonly know as “Back the Badge,” lost by a little over 200 votes this past Nov. 5. The narrow margin, while a loss, showed how important public safety is even Read on…

CategoriesDelta County focus, Opinion

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