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Thursday 03-06-25 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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7:30 Delaney Richmond, Jackson County Emergency Manager – Big changes as Jackson County separates from Josephine County’s Everbridge alert system and has started JACKSON ALERTS – Here’s the page where you can create an account, login and get every alert you need, zone information, etc.
https://www.jacksoncountyor.gov/departments/emergency_management/jackson_alerts_.php
8:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms www.Oregonfirearms.org is on talking about HB3075, which would mostly implement EVERYTHING and more from unconstitutional Measure 114, which is still grinding through the courts. Kevin explains that Democrats will likely all vote for this which effectively shuts down the 2nd Amendment in Oregon. Only way to stop it is GOP willingness to walk out and deny quorum. We’ll find out whose interests the GOP state reps serve, hmm?
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Wednesday 03-05-25 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Eric Peters, automotive journalist from www.EpAutos.com with today’s Wheels Up Wednesday talks on politics and transportation:
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/03/05/what-is-it-with-all-these-lcd-touchscreens/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/03/04/2025-mini-cooper/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/03/03/drivers-licenses-are-silly/
7:10 John O’Connor, is author of Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today’s Partisan Advocacy Journalism. We discuss a bunch of Supreme court decisions, one against Trump, another reining in the EPA, plus his take on the Pam Bondi Epstein “data dumps” and what’s really going on there.
He served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Northern California representing the United States in both criminal and civil cases.
BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Postgate-Washington-Betrayed-Watergate-Journalism/dp/1642932590
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8:10 Professor John Ellis, author of “The Breakdown of Higher Education”
More on John: www.encounterbooks.com/authors/john-m-ellis/
President Trump declared “Woke” as dead and gone in last night’s address. Professor Ellis (and yours truly) believe the rot is embedded much more deeply in the education system and it will take REAL work, not just executive orders, to make it happen. It took decades to get “here”.
Critical Race Theory is an Inversion of History
By Prof. John M. Ellis, Author of A Short History Of Relations Between Peoples
Tribalism and racism were universal until Britons and Americans developed a new way of thinking.
It’s a tribute of sorts to critical race theory’s success that the Trump administration will make its eradication a priority. The Biden administration had quietly implemented policies throughout the federal government based on this theory, and it is being taught in colleges and schools throughout the country. It has overrun much of the corporate world, and it has even secured a place in the training of many professions. The accusations made in closed training sessions are astonishingly venomous: Arrogant white supremacy is ubiquitous; white rage results when that supremacy is challenged; whites hold money and power because they stole it from other races; systemic racism and capitalism keep the injustices going. [more…]
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Monday 03-03-25 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:15 Congressman Cliff Bentz talks the craziness of the town hall meetings, Ukraine, spending and much more.
7:10 Greg Roberts, with the Outdoor Report from www.RogueWeather.com
We also talk about the killing of the wolf in Eastern Oregon and other news.
8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers with today’s “Where Past Meets Present” www.DennisPowersBooks.com
Yreka: Pioneer Mining Town
By Dennis Powers
The early-1851 discovery of gold 30 miles south of present-day Yreka on the Scott River attracted miners from all directions. In that March, Abraham Thompson–a mule-train packer from Oregon–was leading six men across the Siskiyou Trail to that find. A heavy rainstorm caused the men to camp on the “flats,” 1/4th mile from what is now downtown Yreka.
Prospectors before had found insubstantial amounts of gold there, and they would soon leave. This time, the heavy rains had deeply soaked the ground. While watching his pack mules the next morning pull out branch grass by their roots to eat, he was surprised to see flecks of gold on the roots. The group decided to stay there and dig for the precious metal.
The gold was there in large quantities, and the word soon went out that this discovery was “the richest square mile on earth.” By May, some 2000 miners lived in tent camps, shanties, and a few rough cabins on the flats and searching for the gold at “Thompson’s Dry Diggings.” By August 1851, 5000 people–primarily miners but with dry-good merchants and a few families–were camped at Shasta Butte City, Yreka’s present location, to be closer to the nearest water supply at Yreka Creek. They believed that this area was the “second mother lode.”
With the continual mining and commercial activity, residents began building wooden structures on Main Street, now named Miner Street. About one year after the gold discovery, the California legislature created Siskiyou County. Adjacent to the Oregon border, it would be the fifth largest California county by area, and include towns such as Yreka, Mt. Shasta, Weed, Dunsmuir, McCloud, and the Klamath River corridor.
As another town was also called Shasta in the area, the city changed its name to Yreka, which was the local Indian name for Mt. Shasta that meant “North Mountain.” The famous “Poet of the West,” Joaquin Miller, described Yreka during 1853-54 as a lively place with “a tide of people up and down and across other streets, as strong as if in New York.”
In a few years, Yreka changed from another boisterous gold-rush town into a permanent city with laws and governance. Stage lines from and to Oregon used it as a primary stage stop. With a courthouse built, along with the first hospital, church, and school, Yreka was selected to be the county seat for Siskiyou County.
The legendary Lotta Crabtree began her career in these Northern California gold-rush towns and performed in the Yreka area during the mid-1850s, frequently at the Arcade Saloon on Miner Street. According to these stories, the lonely miners threw “thousands of dollars” worth of gold nuggets onto the stage after a performance. With a sense of permanence, the town incorporated in April 1857.
As typical with other mining towns, however, when the gold played out, many of the miners, merchants, and their families left. In twenty years, its population was only 1,100 hardy folks. On July 4th, 1871, the bad times continued when a fire consumed most of the business district in its fiery destruction of thirteen blocks, including many stores, a hotel, theatre, all of the livery stables, the Catholic Church, a schoolhouse, and numerous residences. Despite this huge setback, the town people came together and rebuilt; this also brought about the numerous brick buildings that today line Miner and other Yreka streets. A short-line railroad in 1889 then connected the city with the Southern Pacific’s West Coast line.
As farming, timbering, and ranching replaced mining, the city began to grow again. In 1941, Yreka came to national prominence as the temporary state capital for the State of Jefferson. With neighboring counties in Oregon and California feeling disenfranchised from their state governments, the succession movement began there. Outside of Yreka, armed men erected roadblocks every Thursday on Highway 99 and handed out their “Proclamation of Independence” before letting drivers continue on. When in a matter of weeks the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the movement came to a quick end.
The downtown along West Miner Street is now listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places and as a California Historical Landmark. Over seventy, pre-1900 homes (with numerous stately Victorians) still stand, all within a few blocks of the downtown. With tourism and recreational interests joining Yreka’s economic base, it has 7,825 residents today and is the most populated city in Siskiyou County.
Starting from a group of six grizzled men, Yreka has grown over time to become much more than a stagecoach stop.
Sources: Western Mining History: Yreka, California at History (with images); City of Yreka: History,” at More History; “City of Yreka: Fast Facts,” at Fast Facts.