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FISH & WILDLIFE: Examples of bloated government

| September 13, 2026 1:00 AM

That’s right, and it was on the last page of Section C in the September 10th issue of the Press.

The article was about USF&W staff cuts and surely I’m not the only one that noticed the largest number of staff losses were all in blue states.

Except Alaska, so consider it the outlier due to its size but when California loses “36% totaling 313 people, that should tell you something about Democrat-run states.

The same goes for Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and Colorado with staff cuts in the hundreds yet similar in percentages.

And then you just knew what was coming next considering the author and his source, the Center for Biological Diversity.

Blame Trump.

“Americans overwhelmingly want a smaller government,” should have been the quote by Noah Greenwald of the CBD.

DUANE MARTIN

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