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29 Palms Volunteer Firefighters Make Big Sacrafice

May 16, 2012
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Kyle McDermott My name is Kyle McDermott. I have been a volunteer firefighter with the Twentynine Palms Fire Department since December of 2007. As a volunteer firefighter I have been assigned between four and ten 24-hour shifts per month, depending on the scheduling needs to keep apparatus available for emergency response at all times. During my time here, I have had the opportunity to respond to an array of emergency incidents within the community. I have also had the privilege of attending specialized state fire marshal training courses which...

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To the mothers of the Morongo Basin and beyond

May 13, 2012
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To all the mother that were and present mothers, Happy Mother’s Day The “Mother’s Day Proclamation” by Julia Ward Howe was one of the early calls to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United States. Written in 1870, Howe’s “Mother’s Day Proclamation” was a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. The Proclamation was tied to Howe’s feminist conviction that women had a responsibility to shape their societies at the political level. -  30  -

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Gary Daigneault has his facts wrong?

May 12, 2012
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I opened up the following email this morning from the guy who began the costly and contentious playhouse Project Phoenix. Yes, the man who set in motion the 30 year bond debt that stole $30 million from three generations of taxpayers. Now that money is going back the state of California. He was also the then President of Theatre 29 for eight years. Here is the email: Gary Daigneault z1077fm@gmail.com 4:19 PM (13 hours ago) to me, bh2322 To: Ben Holstrom aka “Branson Hunter” It is common courtesy to...

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LAFCO gives Twentynine Palms its wakeup call!

May 11, 2012
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 LAFCO informs the City of Twentynine Palms to take over fire services or contract it out. While the City Council of Twentynine Palms fiddles with a  second community playhouse & duplicate town center – like Superman LAFCO flies into action to force the City to act on fire services and public safety.  Ratepayers in the 29 Palms Water District rejected a recent fire tax bond measure to fund the fire department. The Measure failed to get a required a 2/3 majority. By 2014 the 29 Palms Fire Department would...

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29 Palms City Manager threatens to sue the State

May 9, 2012
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Richard Warne threatened “to sue the State over the issue” of  Project Phoenix. A. Patrick Munoz and Rutan & Tucker may once again rake in tens of thousand if not hundreds of thousands more from their ongoing campaign to generate more legal fees from the town of Twentynine Palms. The most important thing an attorney can do for a law firm is make it lots and lots of money.  If that is the standard for par excellence, Munoz is doing an outstanding job of bringing in revenue. And is...

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Small Earthquake rolls through Yucca Valley

May 9, 2012
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Earthquake rolls through desert town Doug Saunders The Sun Newspaper |Posted:   05/08/2012 06:07:25 PM PDT At 4:55 p.m. Tuesday evening a 3.2 magnitude earthquake shook Yucca Valley according to the United States Geological Society.No damage has been reported at this time.

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29 City officials rely on loopholes or subterfuge to hide personal assets?

May 7, 2012
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Left, Google Images caricature of 29 Palms City Manager Richard Warne. Right, Photoshop caricature of 29 Palms City Councilman Jay Corbin

The recent flap over James Ramos Form 700 candidacy for Third District S.B. Supervisor has brought a laser-like focus to the 29 Palms City Manager, Richard Warne,  and Councilman Jay Corbin’s own possible ethical or moral dilemma. To wit, possibly hiding the ball on their current FPPC Statement of Financial Interests. How is non-disclosure is related to Project Phoenix? If both Warne and Corbin are without any assets whatsoever, then the only legitimate business here is to hold them jointly and severally responsible for incurring a bogus $30 million...

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Proposed county ordinance would expand food truck vender rights

May 6, 2012
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  Daily Bulletin-San Bernardino County supervisors may make some revisions after food truck proponents complain A food truck frenzy seems to be under way in San Bernardino County. Food truck festivals at high schools, ballparks, airports and convention centers in the last two months have drawn people in droves, and county Supervisor Janice Rutherford has proposed an ordinance that would ease some restrictions for operators looking to cash in on the county’s burgeoning food truck market. Rutherford’s proposed ordinance, which would create a new food truck event category in...

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FPPC Clears Ramos

May 3, 2012
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For Immediate Release | May 2,2010 | Contact Betsy Starbuck | (951) 210-8460 FPPC Clears Ramos Dismisses Frivolous Complaint By Neil Derry Supporter A letter from the Fair Political Practices Commission’s Gary Winuk, Chief of the Enforcement Division, today dismissed a frivolous complaint from a Neil Derry supporter that alleged improper reporting of Form 700 disclosure forms. In the letter, Winuk wrote: “This letter concerns the Fair Political Practices Commission’s Enforcement Division’s review of your complaint alleging James Ramos’ inaccurate completion of his Statements of Economic Interests. After review...

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FPPC Complaint filed against Supervisor Candidate James Ramos

May 1, 2012
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FPPC Complaint filed against Supervisor Candidate James Ramos

Complaint alleges reporting violations for San Bernardino County supervisor candidate James Ramos By Joe Nelson, 04/30/2012 05:26:19 PM PDT View: ComplaintA complaint has been filed against San Bernardino County supervisor candidate and former San Manuel tribal chairman James Ramos, alleging that he failed to report his income and real property interests on state campaign disclosure forms.The complaint, dated April 3 and received by the state Fair Political Practices Commission on April 12, alleges that Ramos failed to report on his form 700 Statement of Economic Interest a house he...

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Hi-Desert Star: Marines lend a hand to desert tortoise

April 28, 2012
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Saturday, April 21, 2012 | By Courtney Vaughn, Hi-Desert Star JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK — For the third year in a row, Nature Valley has paved the way for restoration work around Joshua Tree National Park. The National Parks Conservation Association, the Bureau of Land Management and 30 local volunteer Marines lent a hand to restore vital desert tortoise habitat Saturday, April 14, in an area plagued with illegal off-road-vehicle trails. The work was made possible with the help of grant funding from Nature Valley. Working in an area...

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True or False: California Has At Least $59.83 Billion In Surpluses

April 28, 2012
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True or False: California Has At Least $59.83 Billion In Surpluses

California has at east $59 Billion in Surpluses of Taxpayer’s Money it is not using  I have provided the details of the surpluses and explained the ways the surpluses are accumulated. The data is accurate because it comes directly from the government’s own financial statement, the CAFR. You must provide the where-with-all to convince the Governor and legislatures that the surpluses exist and what should be done about it. I live in Arizona. It is not my money that is at stake.  Introduction  The State...

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InlandPolitics: Ramos says he ‘s dropping clean campaign pledge, goes after Derry

April 26, 2012
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InlandPolitics: Ramos says he ‘s dropping clean campaign pledge, goes after Derry

Thursday, April 26, 2012 – 09:00 a.m. InlandPolitics The former leader of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has dropped his clean campaign pledge in his quest to unseat San Bernardino County Third District Supervisor Neil Derry. Candidate James Ramos is telling mountain constituents he’s ended his desire to run a clean issue-oriented campaign and instead has went negative against Derry. Ramos says since Derry hit him first, he will respond in kind. Derry slammed Ramos in a campaign mailer to permanent absentee voters last week on the...

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TPWD Director said “Time for them to get out of fire business!”

April 26, 2012
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It  renders down to this: Public Safety vs. the playhouse / massive steel superstructure. I was not able to attend the very important 29 Palms Water District meeting last night. However, the KCDZ broadcast news early this morning reported Water District Director, Kerron “Sam” Moore, Jr., Vice President, said during the meeting that it’s “It’s time for the water board to get out of the fire business. We know the City has lapsed into a critical lack of public safety for it residents since the fire Measure H failed....

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