Dr. James Mu, Shasta County’s new health officer, has been on the job for four weeks. It might have taken much longer to learn how the less-qualified Mu landed that position, if not for people who shared with A… Continue Reading
A verbal altercation between Judy Salter, 75, of Redding, and Shasta County’s District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, 49, at the close of last week’s board of supervisors meeting dominated public comment time with numerous people either taking jabs at Crye… Continue Reading
Like a mongrel cross of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa “The Barber of Seville,” Patrick Henry Jones led his merry troupe of political players — better known as the Shasta County Board of Supervisors… Continue Reading
After a nearly 18-month wait and near the end of an eight-hour meeting Tuesday, Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors on a 3-2 vote selected Dr. James Chienchung Mu, 61 — a family medicine practitioner who’s worked for nearly 34 years… Continue Reading
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 16 pieces of legislation in Sacramento Wednesday, including one — Assembly Bill 969 — that will have a direct impact on Shasta County Elections, much to the chagrin of three county supervisors determined to hand-count… Continue Reading
Official certification of a petition submitted by District 1 voters to recall Supervisor Kevin Crye set off a war of words during the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday. After the Elections Department reviewed 5,106 signatures received on Sept.… Continue Reading
Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors set a new record Tuesday by ejecting an audience member and clearing the board chambers within the first 10 minutes of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at 9 a.m. This was the fourth such ejection… Continue Reading
By a vote of 30 – 6 late Tuesday, California’s State Senate passed Assembly Bill (AB) 969 prohibiting Shasta County and other similarly minded voting jurisdictions from cancelling voting system contracts and counting votes by hand except under very limited… Continue Reading
Following a chaotic morning session ending prematurely in an unscheduled recess when board chair Patrick Jones lost control of his audience at 10:30 a.m., the Shasta County Board of Supervisors returned to a full agenda of county business by approximately… Continue Reading
Never in my 45 years of covering public meetings at every level — from tiny school boards in Shasta County up to the California State Legislature — have I ever witnessed democracy devolve into such total anarchy and chaos as… Continue Reading
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