[sasquatch]

Makes my blood boil. The so-called gifts of the mega-phila's are killing rural America.

[Iscool]

That's what happens when you buy all your fish from Japan and all your lumber from Canada...That's the way we like it, isn't it??? If we can just get the wages down to around 3 bucks an hour, then maybe we can start buying American again...

[diggerwillow]

Kind of sounds like the results of the Democrat's stimulus package to me.

[widowithfoursons]

Another fed land grab. No surprise here.

[2banana]

Most of the county's budget pays for state-mandated programs

Stop paying for state-mandated programs. If the state gets angry, tell them to fund them. Use local taxes on local projects deemed important by the locals (note: this may require a backbone)

[sasquatch]

'morning. It's time to get up.

[Ben Ficklin]

Del Norte and the County Payments Bill

[Mike Darancette]

If the local farmers would chip in some of their huge profits things would be better.

[cincinnati_Steve]

according to our own government's research going back 500 years

Umm. Did our Pilgrim government keep records this detailed? Bump on the post about plants. Didn't know there was that much science ("air layering"?) involved. Maybe that's way my dadgum carrots look like radishes, only orange and smaller.

[Carry_Okie]

And in a related story from nearby Humboldt County...

[xm177e2]

They should defect to Oregon.

[cynicom]

Simple solution, raise taxes, problem solved. See now that was'nt difficult was it?