This month instead of an opinion piece per se, I’m providing more of a public service announcement: Enough about Measure B! Please try to forget this whole chapter in our town’s history as quickly and completely as possible and I will try to do the same.
Yesterday, we got the results from the Measure B election, which I obviously haven’t seen yet as I write this opinion piece right now, by which I mean last week.
After nearly a year of uproar, countless contentious meetings, dozens of yard signs and more letters to the editor than any other topic we can recall, it’s almost over.
We are, of course, referring to Measure B, which would cap the property assessments for a new Plumas District Hospital at $50 per $100,000 of assessed value. Ballots for the special all-mail election are due next Tuesday, Aug. 31. Results will be posted that night at plumasnews.com.
Sam Williams
Staff Writer
8/11/2010
Everybody remembers the first time - it's human nature.
Way back in 1999, I was enjoying my first summer working at the newspaper and learning my way around Lassen County when I got my first glimpse of what seems to be an unfortunate and all too frequent occurrence in our part of the country - a raging wildfire. Growing up in the city, I had no real experience with our kind of fire.
In the next few days we’ll be receiving our mail-in ballots to vote on Measure B. This measure represents a critical threat to PDH’s ability to continue to provide quality medical care for future generations.
Like me, many of Quincy’s current physicians decided to locate here because our community has the size, location and base of commerce to sustain quality medical care and a small hospital for the long term.
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