Here in Northern California, the devil’s own tinderbox, you can’t know too much about the threat wildfire poses to our way of life. That’s why The Lookout, a website and YouTube channel dedicated to providing near-real-time analysis of ongoing wildfires,… Continue Reading
Max Steiner has a problem. The 36-year-old Iraq War Army veteran and northern California native is running as a centrist Democrat in northern California’s solidly Republican 1st Congressional District, where voters have repeatedly elected rightwing rice farmer Rep. Doug LaMalfa… Continue Reading
Just in time to go back to school, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated COVID-19 guidelines that are practically guaranteed to increase the spread of the serious acute respiratory virus that has killed more than 1… Continue Reading
Bethel Music troubadour Sean Feucht is the Pied Piper of Christian nationalism. As voluminously documented by my A News Café colleague Shawn Schwaller here and here, Feucht has an exhibited an almost Zelig-like ability to turn up at the historical… Continue Reading
It may have taken an investigation by the Fair Political Practices Commission, but Connecticut son-of-a-billionaire Reverge Anselmo has finally filed as a major campaign donor in Shasta County after giving nearly $1 million to local rightwing causes during the past… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: New information has been added re Baron Browning, below. Transparency. The word has been on almost every candidate’s lips this midterm campaign season; a valorous but vague pledge to get to the bottom of things and root out… Continue Reading
I simultaneously gave myself whiplash and déjà vu watching the House January 6th Committee Hearing and the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting in tandem on Tuesday. In the former live-stream, the House committee attempted to hold Donald “Big Lie”… Continue Reading
“The waves of what we have done here are going to ripple throughout history for the rest of history. As long as there’s a United States of America, what we did right here, what you did in Shasta County, is… Continue Reading
Shasta County Clerk/Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen once taught me a valuable lesson. I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18, and after four decades, voting had become perfunctory in nature to me, something I took for granted.… Continue Reading
“You can’t spend your way out of debt,” says square-shouldered crew-cut Kevin Crye on his most recent campaign flier, a large blob of something — sweat, a shadow — blotting the light blue shirt covering his expansive chest. “Kevin Crye… Continue Reading
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