I’m no expert on human sexual development, but I’m now convinced that anxiety over the rite of passage we call coming of age lies at the heart of the attack on public and private schools by MAGA Republicans across the… Continue Reading
Happy new year, ladies, gentlemen and assorted and sundry genders! It’s 2023 and the American way of life as we’ve known it is on the wane. It doesn’t have a darned thing to do with which pronouns you use, the… Continue Reading
By now, everybody who follows the news in Shasta County knows the newly elected MAGA school board majority at Gateway Unified School District summarily fired its superintendent last Tuesday. After being sworn in the week before, new board members Cherrill… Continue Reading
As expected, the new MAGA majority on the Gateway Unified School District Board of Trustees summarily fired superintendent Jim Harrell Tuesday night as a packed crowd of teachers and parents angrily jeered the decision and threatened to recall trustees Cherrill… Continue Reading
At a hastily called special meeting Tuesday night, the newly elected anti-establishment majority on the Gateway Unified School District Board of Trustees plans to fire superintendent Jim Harrell. Harrell, a prominent member of Bethel, is in the ninth year of… Continue Reading
“Just deleted my Twitter account because Elon Musk has turned it into a rightwing cesspool,” I posted on Facebook one week ago today, and I still feel the better for it. I was worried I’d become addicted to watching the… Continue Reading
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
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