Two weeks ago, a Redding Police Department officer shot and killed unarmed Donnell James Lang, 48, in the quiet suburban Hacienda Heights neighborhood where I work. I get off work at 3:05, so I missed the incident, which occurred about… Continue Reading
Last October, as northern California was still reeling from two successive wildfires that ranked among the most destructive in state history, seven white men marched onto the Sundial Bridge in Redding and unfurled a banner praising firefighters in the name… Continue Reading
The students at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry are encouraged to take risks. After all, what could be more risky than walking up to a total stranger and offering to heal their afflictions by the mere laying on of… Continue Reading
Well, he’s done it again. At the annual gathering of right-wing lunatics known as CPAC a couple of Saturdays ago, President Donald Trump reached out and grabbed America by the … well, unfortunately, you know what I mean. In what’s… Continue Reading
If you ask me, A News Cafe has been on a bit of a roll lately. Valerie Ing’s recent column, “What Skeletons Are In Your Closet?” was one of the best things I’ve read on the ongoing national blackface controversy.… Continue Reading
I don’t know about you, but I’m not all that excited about President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national state of emergency just so he can build a wall on our southern border. The Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are… Continue Reading
Sometime this month, if it hasn’t happened already, Redding police may begin citing homeless people camping on public property in the city. Then again, they may not. Last September, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that… Continue Reading
The problem is we just don’t have enough time. You can say that about a lot of things in life, including life itself, but I’m being more specific here. Fire season is just around the corner, and we have only… Continue Reading
All I really wanted to know when I called the Good News Rescue Mission’s office a week-and-a-half ago was one simple thing: What, pray tell, is the Mission’s capacity? That number was important to the story I was working on,… Continue Reading
On Tuesday, the Redding City Council is set to pass a revised anti-homeless camping ordinance the city claims will shield it from a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decision last September. The San Francisco-headquartered court found such… Continue Reading
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