Getting Credit for Doing Good

A new program allows Shasta College students to earn college credits by volunteering at Mercy Medical Center in Redding.

Mercy’s Volunteer Services Department has teamed up with Shasta’s Worksite Learning Program to start the program. Students can earn one hour of…

Deep in the Heart of Stupid

Nothing they love down in Texas more than a good book-banning, but the state Board of Education got carried away.

In their haste to eliminate all pinko/commie/leftist leanings from the state’s social studies curriculum, board members banned the children’s classic “Brown Bear, Brown Bear,…

Let’s Call This ‘The Year of Living Intelligently’

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Is this the year “twenty-ten” or “two-thousand-ten”?

Is the emergency number “nine-eleven” or “nine-one-one?” If you are dealing with a kid, it better be 9-1-1. There have been cases where small children have been unable to call because they could not…

Kick the Habit

Thursday is the Great American Smokeout, the American Cancer Society’s annual day of encouraging people to kick the tobacco habit, and the Shasta County Tobacco Education Coalition has suggestions to help.

If you’re trying to quit smoking, make a big deal of…