Off Beat column is written by Harold Kruger. It runs every Sunday. Harold takes a look at local and state happenings.
Freedom Politics: Goodbye, Congress
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- Off Beat: Colusa makes Congress
- It's rare when the word "Colusa" is mentioned on the floor of the House of Representatives, so when one of those occasions happens, it shouldn't be ignored. On Jan. 31, Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, who may be your next congressman, if he win... Full story
- Off Beat: Cyber secure in Oroville
- When you think of cyber warfare, you usually don't think of the Mid-Valley, unless, of course, it's Beale Air Force Base. There's a good chance they have a high level of cyber security there. At least you'd hope so. But what about elsewhere? How a... Full story
- Off Beat: Dear Doug, No thanks
- This columnist is apparently on a first-name basis with your state senator, Doug LaMalfa, who hopes to become your congressman. LaMalfa, or at least his campaign staff, sent an email. It wound up in this columnist’s inbox last month. It began... Full story
- Off Beat: Perry performs poorly
- Not that long ago, Assemblyman Dan Logue was prodding Texas Gov. Rick Perry to run for president. "This is a candidate that has the Ronald Reagan mystique," Logue told this newspaper last year. Logue traveled to Texas to marvel at the Perry's job-c... Full story
- Off Beat: Trustees speak to empty seats
- Yuba City Unified School District trustees must have been somewhat shocked when nobody, save for some high school students, bothered to show up at last week's study session about trustee area boundaries. After all, the trustees were trying to inform... Full story
- Off Beat: Why, Wally, why?
- Last Sunday's column may have had more impact than intended. Two days after it appeared, Wally Herger, your man in Congress, announced he had had enough and would not run for re-election. So now we say goodbye to Wally, the legislator who railed ag... Full story
- Off Beat: Herger can’t miss: He’s Swiss
- You've probably never thought of your congressman, Wally Herger, as much of a foreign policy expert. He's in there ferreting out fraud — or at least what he considers waste, fraud and abuse — and doing all sorts of other things to protec... Full story
- Off Beat: Harmony Health is bright spot for Yuba
- If you've paid any attention to media coverage of Yuba County, you know it seems to follow a certain pattern. The county's poor. The people who live there are really poor. It's a woebegone area. There is no hope. So it wasn't surprising earlier thi... Full story
- Off Beat: Inmate can't evade court system
- In the annals of crime, Dwayne Eichler doesn't rate very highly. He's not a Manson, or a Corona or anybody else whose name you might remember. But Eichler has one claim to fame in Yuba-Sutter: He was the first defendant around here sentenced under t... Full story
- Off Beat: Sin and salvation at Beale Air Force Base
- They're generally pretty tight-lipped about the mission at Beale Air Force Base, but occasionally stuff slips out. In fact, the base's website described two events that happened last month. You might say April was sin and salvation month at Beale. ... Full story
