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HICAP is the Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Program, a program of the Area One Agency on Aging. Registered HICAP volunteer counselors help senior and disabled Medicare beneficiaries understand their Medicare and health insurance benefits and choices. Have you heard about the California Birthday Rule when it come to your Medicare supplement plan, also known as a Medigap plan that bridges the 20% that Medicare doesn’t cover? You can review and change for up to sixty days after your birthdate. Having a mymedicare.gov account makes understanding Medicare easier, call HICAP to learn how to set yours up.

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Anyone doing the A lullaby for crude crosses burned on lawns of gays, difficult job of enforcing welcoming us to our first town together,California’s laws needs some cover from retribufor the school district that would not tion. Qualified immunity, hire my wife, a strong police union and to soothe our children who suffered privacy laws to protect officers and their jobs seems jeering taunts, like an obvious way of to praise our valiant transgender son approaching this. Unfor- who came out to his dad, tunately, the citizens and to celebrate our thirty-six years bonded the taxpayers pay dearly for this. The inability to together in marriage. hold Sgt. Jason Daniels May you wave proudly in the wind, to account for sexual a benediction on our dreams of equality, harassment has the effect glorifying the whole spectrum of love.of leaving citizens at risk of being victims of crime. Sex workers and homeless people suspected of being — Pat McCutcheon sex workers might need to get away from an abusive pimp. If they recognize that law enforcement also sees them as a sex object, they have no privileged, private review process, we’re recourse to the law. Similarly, if you are encouraging more racist and sexist police already a suspect because of the color of practices. your skin, you have no recourse when you Geoffrey Robinson, Blue Lake are attacked by racist neighbors (“What Happened on Howard Street” Aug. 27, 2020). This dynamic does not engender Write a Letter! trust in law enforcement. Trust from the Please make your letter no more than community is the best way for officers 300 words and include your full name, and citizens to be safe. place of residence and phone number

Humboldt County needs a Citizen’s Law (we won’t print your number). Send it to Enforcement Review Board with subpoena letters@northcoastjournal.com. The deadpower and representation from stigma- line to have a letter considered for the tized groups to hold officers accountable. upcoming edition is 10 a.m. Monday. When we’re accountable, we’re responsible. When we’re hiding malfeasance in a l

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