Long-suffering fans of the U.S. Men’s National Team will have to wait four years before the American squad gets another crack at the FIFA World Cup after they were crushed by the Netherlands 3-1 last Saturday. It was a bitter… Continue Reading
Heading into the 2020 midterm elections, all four Shasta County supervisor candidates have proven adept at raising money,with each exceeding $100,000 in campaign donations. Continue Reading
If you’re a regular reader of A News Café, chances are you’ve already mailed in your ballot for the 2022 midterm elections. Perhaps your early voting was prompted by Proposition 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, which, if passed,… Continue Reading
Democratic California 1st Congressional District candidate Max Steiner is right about at least one thing: This is no normal election we’re facing on Nov. 8. Reproductive freedom, the social safety net and democracy itself are all on the ballot. Should… Continue Reading
In the classic Hollywood Western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the titular characters played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford are followed by a six-rider posse after their second train robbery. For the rest of the film, the lawmen… Continue Reading
After weeks of rumors that Reverge Anselmo was riding to the rescue of Shasta County’s flailing rightwing political movement, the Connecticut multimillionaire has donated $100,000 to the newly formed Water Users Committee, just in time for the Nov. 8 midterm… Continue Reading
Beth Watt, Taryn Ham and Whitney Hathaway have several things in common. All three women have children presently attending Millville Elementary School. All three women have volunteered with the Palo Cedro Youth Soccer Organization. And since the COVID-19 pandemic began… Continue Reading
With the Nov. 8 general election just seven weeks away and two county supervisor seats up for grabs, Shasta County is at a crossroads. Voters can choose to continue down the hard-right course charted by District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones… Continue Reading
Barring any eleventh-hour legal shenanigans, kidnap hoaxer Sherri Papini will be sentenced for mail fraud and lying to the FBI in U.S. District Court in Sacramento on Mon., Sept. 19. Thus, one of the saddest, most sordid affairs in recent… Continue Reading
Shasta County Board of Education candidate Rich Gallardo is on a mission to destroy public education as we know it. Gallardo is a fanatical gun rights advocate and COVID-19 denier who may be best known for his failed attempt to perform a citizen’s arrest on the entire board of supervisors in October 2020. Continue Reading
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