Letter Warns Redding on Medical Pot - UPDATE: City Responds

The national ACLU’s Drug Law Reform Project has sent a certified letter to the city of Redding saying portions of its proposed ordinance regarding medical-marijuana collectives and cooperatives “illegally contravene state law and create undue burdens for the City’s legitimate medical-marijuana…

Letter Warns Redding of Legal Issues in Medical Pot Ordinance

The national ACLU’s Drug Law Reform Project has sent a certified letter to the city of Redding saying portions of its proposed ordinance regarding medical-marijuana collectives and cooperatives “illegally contravene state law and create undue burdens for the City’s legitimate medical-marijuana…

Police, Levees and Pot: A Big Night at City Council

I haven’t been to a Redding City Council meeting in years, but I decided to reverse that trend on Tuesday night. It seemed like there were plenty of interesting and important items on the agenda.

I was right!

Redding City Council OKs Strict Rules on Medical Marijuana Collectives/Cooperatives

Update: Redding City Council adopts medical marijuana ordinance by a 3-2 vote. 10:12 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Voting in favor of the regulations were Councilors Dick Dickerson, Mary Stegall and Mayor Rick Bosetti.  Voting against were Councilors Missy McArthur and Patrick…

The Candidate Speaks

My Fellow Reddingonians (and you gals, too),

I am posting this message to you, the once and future voters, for no reason other than the fact that the cartoon it replaces in this space has been up for a week and…

Redding Privatization Committee Hears Little from Public

Monday marked the second meeting of the City of Redding’s Privatization Evaluation Committee.

The goal of the meeting was to give members of the PEC some community feedback about the possible privatization of certain city services, including Redding Electric Utility. After…

Press Release From PNRFG and Philbert For Council

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RE: Cartoonist’s statement of intent

Former and future write-in candidate for Redding City Council, Phil “Philbert” Fountain, has issued several statements, the most coherent of which is as follows:

It has been brought to my attention that there may be…

Cartoon: ‘We’re Not Socialists, You Know!’

Meeting on Privatizing Select City Services

A new panel of Redding city councilors and citizen appointees will gather Monday, Aug. 17, to chat about the possibility of privatizing certain city functions.

Chief among the services to be considered for outsourcing are the Convention Center and/or the Convention…

REU Insider Pleads With Redding City Council

The following unsolicited contribution is published as an open letter to the Redding City Council from a city employee (she spoke before the council on Tuesday night).  A News Cafe invites feedback from the city, the council, REU or readers.…