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Crying Wolf: Does Northern California’s Growing Gray Wolf Population Pose a Public Safety Threat?

Waiting for the May 13 Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting to begin, Jim Rickert leaned his lanky body into a nearby wall and sighed. Jim and his wife, former Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert, own Prather Ranch… Continue Reading

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Decline of Western Civilization On Full Display at Shasta County Board of Supervisors Meeting

It’s official. Now that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has posted topless photos of himself cavorting in a polluted Washington D.C. stream with his grandkids the United States is literally up shit creek without a paddle.… Continue Reading

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Part 2: Shasta County Supervisors Kevin Crye, Corkey Harmon and Chris Kelstrom Choose Florida Fabulist Clint Curtis for Next County ROV

The final candidate interviewed by the board last Wednesday, Ellie Leigh Sharp, a Subject Matter Expert II and top-down integration specialist for the Nevada Secretary of State Elections Division, has worked in elections offices since 2007—about the same length of time as Assistant ROV Joanna Francescut. She was clearly more qualified than Curtis, who has no direct elections experience. Continue Reading

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Part 1: Shasta County Supervisors Kevin Crye, Corkey Harmon and Chris Kelstrom Choose Florida Fabulist Clint Curtis for Next County ROV

Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon can stop complaining about being the swing vote on the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. After joining District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye and District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom in anointing underqualified Florida election… Continue Reading

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Shasta County Board of Supervisors Approves Hawes Farms and Maverick Gas Station, New Fire Hazard Severity Zone Threatens District 3, Zero Emission EV Fleet Seems Far Off

Sometimes it’s hard not to feel that all the world’s problems are interconnected, and try as we might we’re never going to solve this cascading nightmare of blunders as we hurtle toward a burning future where human life on earth… Continue Reading

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Working and Middle Class Revolt at Shasta County Board of Supervisors Meeting, Board Writes More Letters

Local In-Home Support Services workers and attorneys from the Public Defender and District Attorney’s offices urgently pleaded for higher wages at Tuesday night’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. The IHSS workers, under the purple banner of Service Employees International… Continue Reading

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Emergency Wolf Meeting, SCOE Rematch, Low Income Housing Shortage, Strategic Plan Discussed at Tuesday’s BOS Meeting

First District California Rep. Doug LaMalfa refuses to hold in-person town hall meetings with his constituents, who have very real questions about potential cuts to Social Security, Medicare, SNAP and other safety net programs within reach of Elon Musk’s DOGE… Continue Reading