tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post1115251651878539339..comments2024-03-06T20:20:23.420-08:00Comments on samoasoftball: Humboldt vs. Shasta BOS pay and other apples to oranges.samoasoftballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06244238117702878406noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-3573356109460366632009-06-01T11:35:30.803-07:002009-06-01T11:35:30.803-07:00Well, I noticed part of this issue deals with supe...Well, I noticed part of this issue deals with supervisor salaries. Have you ever looked more closely at some of the staff salaries, particularly some of the department heads and their assistants? Some of those salaries well exceed $100,000, and are more then some county department budgets?!? Check it out, it will blow your mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-22789457302766209712009-05-31T12:39:59.923-07:002009-05-31T12:39:59.923-07:00No comment, look for me in mid aug when i am there...No comment, look for me in mid aug when i am there for ehs 30 year reunion and we can continue this thenRambonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-44700294656344969162009-05-30T20:00:03.340-07:002009-05-30T20:00:03.340-07:00Rich,
My apologies, should not have said what I s...Rich,<br /><br />My apologies, should not have said what I said but I saw red with what my wife was called. I will try to restrain myself on here and my apologeys to YOU.Rambonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-90509167866377622022009-05-27T22:49:43.216-07:002009-05-27T22:49:43.216-07:009:18pm-You mean the Bonnie Neely manuver? Bonnie a...9:18pm-You mean the Bonnie Neely manuver? Bonnie asked me for an endorsement at the Mike Thompson fund raiser. I told her I was running against her so I could not do that. I told her if she wanted me to reconsider, she would need to re-register as a Democrat. If I find out she had already done that before I asked this of her, all bets off. If she done it afterwards, I will not run against her.samoasoftballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06244238117702878406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-73221600074928124852009-05-27T13:51:30.963-07:002009-05-27T13:51:30.963-07:00In this state, the porrer the county the more like...In this state, the porrer the county the more likely to vote with the GOP. The richer your county, the more likely to vote Democrat. This hardly squares with the liberal picture of republicans sitting aroung country clubs plotting their next screwing of the poor and handicapped. I also can't wait to see the liberals blame the Republicans when they start slashing programs. It will never be a spending problem but will always be a Republican lack of compassion problem to liberals. I know, I know....if the rich only paid their share. There were 28,000returns filed by taxpayers reporting incomes of $1 million or<br />more in 2003. Those returns represented just one-fifth of 1 percent of California's 13.5<br />million taxpayers, yet their income was about 11 percent of the<br />total. And their taxes represented 24 percent of all the income tax paid in the state. This why we are in the position we are in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-55655992347143688572009-05-27T12:57:53.249-07:002009-05-27T12:57:53.249-07:00Shasta doesn't have dead end laidoff losers who wa...Shasta doesn't have dead end laidoff losers who want to run for office because they need a paycheck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-4476739354018557342009-05-27T12:56:39.938-07:002009-05-27T12:56:39.938-07:0011:18am-Interesting that both of you posted at the...11:18am-Interesting that both of you posted at the same time with the same observations of transplants! And 1st 11:18am, that makes sense that the (Medical?) professionals have driven up the median household averages. <br /><br />But this is one thing I just don't get: Why do the Shasta Supervisors make nearly the same as the Median Household average in Shasta? (Around $55,000) In Humboldt our Supes make nearly twice the Median Household Average! ($77,000)samoasoftballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06244238117702878406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-16965015753069882922009-05-27T11:19:09.055-07:002009-05-27T11:19:09.055-07:00Fred says because it's a red county? I can show yo...Fred says because it's a red county? I can show you red county's that are doing very poorly Fred. You need to get out more, you are sadly stunted in your view of the world and your little mush brain can't handle much complexity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-90299985219409904932009-05-27T11:18:25.643-07:002009-05-27T11:18:25.643-07:00i think it is the retired peoples that sell their ...i think it is the retired peoples that sell their hugely expensive SoCal home and move to Humboldt that drives up the price.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-84336670864866128552009-05-27T11:18:00.960-07:002009-05-27T11:18:00.960-07:00If you were from Shasta County you would know that...If you were from Shasta County you would know that unless you live in Redding the BOS don't represent you. Your BOS are much more "user friendly" from what I've seen. That great attitude toward business has given us terrific industries like Knauf, Wheelabrator and a Gravel Pit on the beautiful Sacramento River on the old paper mill toxic dumping site with a statement by our EDC head that "We don't consider pollution when we look for industry to bring in," and a rubber stamp from the BOS. Most days now you can't even see Mt. Shasta and many days my car is covered in a fine grit. <br />As for that great growth... you can have it. It has destroyed what was once a clean, relatively crime free farming and recreational community and turned it into a polluted, grid-locked cookie cutter I-5 clone city. <br />The wages here are poor with high unemployment, 15.4% compared to 11.6% for Humboldt, 4-2009.(http://www.calmis.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/countyur-400c.pdf) There are enough high end professional people here to raise the median income enough to reflect a much rosier picture than is reality. <br />The housing market should also show that every fifth house is for sale or in foreclosure with no buyer so many houses are being dumped at far below value. Also, many of the houses being bought are<br />by transplants moving in to take advantage of this situation with the cash from the sale of their homes from else where. <br />Nearly everyone I know is either out of work, experiencing some form of layoff, cutbacks, or forced early retirement. <br />It will be interesting to see these numbers next year, however, my experience with Shasta County has been less than forthright and they can say the cloud are cotton candy, but I will still know they are moist air.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-62736707893037182912009-05-27T10:13:51.557-07:002009-05-27T10:13:51.557-07:00Just hard to make sense of housing to be so much c...Just hard to make sense of housing to be so much cheaper, but wages so much higher than Humboldt. And we have the Ocean, many rivers, redwood trees and Angelo's and Big Louies Pizza!samoasoftballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06244238117702878406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-63223784990061754362009-05-27T08:09:19.334-07:002009-05-27T08:09:19.334-07:00Coastal communities tend to have higher property v...Coastal communities tend to have higher property values. Redding and Shasta are on the I-5 corridor which makes it easier for uppliers to deliver their goods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-5572213248203622602009-05-27T06:45:16.151-07:002009-05-27T06:45:16.151-07:00Since the fact is that well over half of the count...Since the fact is that well over half of the county residents live in the greater Eureka area, I would suspect that the colleges artificially drive up housing prices and rents.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-60121614353822487502009-05-27T06:35:17.861-07:002009-05-27T06:35:17.861-07:00And it's a red county.And it's a red county.Fred Mangelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15746646487480850444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-47838805892717976182009-05-27T00:52:01.309-07:002009-05-27T00:52:01.309-07:00and a great trail system!and a great trail system!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-83439922498700268992009-05-27T00:27:00.422-07:002009-05-27T00:27:00.422-07:00SunshineSunshineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-22015848629178632632009-05-26T22:31:14.656-07:002009-05-26T22:31:14.656-07:00Redding has I-5, the sac river,Lake Shasta and is ...Redding has I-5, the sac river,Lake Shasta and is within a quick drive to some amazing places.Lots of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-52581909870234722912009-05-26T22:16:08.777-07:002009-05-26T22:16:08.777-07:00hey the other Richard, they have I5and are not a s...hey the other Richard, they have I5and are not a shelterd community like we are.. <br /><br />And to top it all off we have a very small "Core" of industry<br />such as the County, colleges, hospitals, and many non profits who always rely on state and federal funding to survive... <br /><br />Our county is a dying breed of individuals who just love to hang out, be broke, enjoy Gods country, and well---just be humboldtans...<br /><br />So, are we happy---for that has always been the question...RMostranskinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-79068776661268925682009-05-26T21:30:45.750-07:002009-05-26T21:30:45.750-07:00We're pretty insular here, too. I don't think man...We're pretty insular here, too. I don't think many of the stores/restaurants are something that Southern half of Humboldt would be very excited about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30719375.post-16724451650095590452009-05-26T20:29:53.468-07:002009-05-26T20:29:53.468-07:00Just off the top of my head with out thinking to m...Just off the top of my head with out thinking to much about it. The one thing I can see Redding does have is I-5.Rambonoreply@blogger.com