There's lots of questions that came to mind when I saw the latest headline in the Peninsula Daily News today: Who won in $1.3 million dispute: Clallam County treasurer or county commissioners?----PDN
"Barkhuis did not respond to numerous phone calls and emails last week. She could not be found at her office Thursday or Friday."----read more
Now, that quote begs the question, why is Barkhuis in essence snubbing the Peninsula Daily News, and only communicating with the Port O Call, which was established in 2013? They have stories written by her on their webpage, while the PDN, or any other publication are snubbed by her. Could she be taking sides of a feud between the two leading newspapers? By the look of the evidence, shown by the number of stories by her, and about her are mostly in the Port O Call paper. I on the other hand never approached Barkhuis about any of this, on this current matter or anything. Just watching the drama being played out in the media. Which thus far has been one sided, counting the number of stories about the County Treasure. However, she her self writes a blog too, called PATODAY.
How did this little media feud began you may ask? It started around 2013, when Dale Wilson wanted a letter to the editor of the Peninsula Daily News, they didn't publish the letter that Wilson submitted, thus Wilson decided to establish his own publication the Port O Call. However, he wasn't the only one who started a publication out of being snubbed by the PDN. Yours truly also was snubbed by the PDN over selling newspapers at a new newsstand I wanted to start up in one of the shopping malls way back in 97'. Thus I started my old news blog called the Port Angeles Journal, and in time that anger subsided, and I became friends with the current publisher of the PDN, John Brewer. Oh, I still shoot jabs at the guy now and then, but never at the level Wilson seems to be doing. Holding grudges never work folks. The follow stories I have collected paints a clear picture I think of the level of destine between the two leading publications, and how Barkhuis has taken sides in this media feud. Normally no one would care right? But we are talking about an elected official taking sides in a Media dust up locally.
Related stories
Clallam judge denies injunction against city of Port Angeles----PDN
Who flung dung?---PORT O CALL
"Another theory has to do with a visit to Nichols’ office by Bryan Frazier, candidate for county commissioner. According to Frazier, within 24 hours of Frazier’s visit to the prosecutor’s office the commissioners hit the “reset” button and put off the grant-giving for an indeterminate period of time."----read more
The bucks stops with the County Treasurer.
On June 18, 2015, I rejected payment of the $1 million warrant presented by the Port, and on June 19, 2015, I likewise rejected payment of the $285,952 warrant presented by the City. I rejected disbursement of these funds because once these funds leave the County Treasury, they will likely be lost to the County forever, regardless of whatever findings the State Auditor may produce at some later date.----Port o Call
Constitutional crisis looms in Clallam County
"The reason I am reaching out the State Attorney General for immediate intervention is because $1.3 million in County public funds is at imminent risk of loss, being diverted from their appropriation to the County general-fund obligated Carlsborg Sewer project, to being sent out of the County Treasury as no-strings-attached “grants” to outside entities, without any prior public hearings that change the budget, and without any written contracts to overcome the presumption that these grants are really unauthorized gifts of public funds. ---Port O Call
Falling through the Looking Glass Treasurer Withholds Funding; Seeks Judicial Review---PATODAY, a publication which Barkhuis publishes on line
Open letter to John Brewer, publisher PDN---PORT O CALL
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INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE:
Why So Many Denominations?
In the religious world today there are many different religious groups. Each has its own peculiar name, organization, doctrine, form of worship, and plan of salvation. Why are there so many religious groups? Nearly all Bible students agree that in the New Testament there was only one church belonging to Jesus. Denominations did not exist. But today there are hundreds of churches all claiming to believe in God and most claiming to follow Jesus. Where did they all come from?
Could it be that people in all these churches are pleasing to God and are following Jesus? In 1 Corinthians 1:10 Paul rebuked the Corinthian church because there was division among the members there. If God condemned that division, why would He overlook the fact that far greater division exists today? In verse 13 Paul asked, "Is Christ divided?" The clear answer is: No, Christ is not divided! Jesus does not contradict Himself. He does not teach one thing to one person, and then teach the opposite to someone else. But the modern denominations do contradict one another. How then can they all be following Jesus? Jesus is not divided, so denominational division did not come from Jesus. Where then did it come from?
In Acts 20:29,30 the apostle Paul spoke to a group of bishops and made this prediction: "...after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves." After Paul left, there would be apostasy among God's people. Religious leaders in the church would pervert or change the gospel in order to get a following for themselves.
We urge you to consider the evidence that the existence of modern denominational division fulfills these prophecies. Modern denominational division came about over a period of hundreds of years because men departed from God's will.
For more information on this subject, please visit our Bible Instruction web site at www.gospelway.com/instruct/ and study our in-depth articles there about denominationalism, religious division and confusion, and how to identify Jesus' true church.
(c) Copyright David E. Pratte, 2/5/2005
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