Whiskeytown National Recreation Area officials still are taking comments on whether communication towers atop Shasta Bally should be removed.
More than 100 comments have been received, and park officials are hoping to release a plan by the end of March. To read more about the options or to make a comment, click here.
I’ve got a nice view of Shasta Bally from my property. Most days, you can’t even see the towers on the 6,199-foot mountain; the sun has to hit them just right.
The towers were there before the National Park Service bought the land in 1970, so shouldn’t their owners have squatters’ rights? Also, how many people would make use of the mountaintop if it were restored to some sort of natural state? We all make use of the radio/TV/communications signals.
I have to wonder if the National Park Service is broaching this issue as a way to revisit the fees paid by companies that have towers up there. Some of those fees admittedly seem small. But does a landlord need to threaten eviction to raise the rent?
- What’s black and white and red all over? Newspaper budgets. Sorry to hear that yet another major newspaper is going under. Today is the last day The Rocky Mountain News will be published in Denver. We know several people who work at that paper, and feel bad for them. Newspaper publishing companies have brought many of the problems on themselves (look at executive salaries, poor management and the deteriorating product churned out by many papers), but it’s still sad to see so many in trouble.
- Twitterpated: Twitter is in the news again, with word that some members of Congress sent text messages during President Obama’s speech the other night. I still haven’t used Twitter, but I’m bothered by it (naturally). Here’s my problem: A Twitter message is called a “tweet.” That’s just screwing with the English language. I don’t care how much you monkey around with the word Twitter, you’re never going to come up with tweet. They should call such a message a “twit,” especially if it was sent by a congressperson.
- Mark Your Calendars: The Redding Library has a fun family event scheduled for 2 p.m. March 7 to celebrate the library building’s second anniversary. Carnival of Chaos from San Francisco will entertain with juggling, stunts and comedy. For more info, click here
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