There’s no question Redding is a city on the edge. Deteriorating public safety has created a powder keg of citizen resentment toward the city’s leadership that’s just waiting for the slightest spark to touch it off. This resentment plays out… Continue Reading
Ladies and gentlemen, what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate on so many levels, my head is spinning. As just about everybody in Shasta County knows by now, there was a pretty damned intense Redding City Council meeting… Continue Reading
School’s out for the summer, political tempers are flaring and the time is right for fighting in the streets! Comedian Kathy Griffin’s mock decapitation of President Donald J. Trump tweeted to all the twits in Tweeterville last week laid out… Continue Reading
Trevor Adey doesn’t seem like a troubled man. There’s nothing on the outside that suggests anything is going wrong on the inside. But things are not going very well indeed. Adey, 37, suffers from low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, a rare form… Continue Reading
It’s official. Tex was the last man standing at the Whitmore Mountain Music Faire Saturday. At least he was the last man dancing. You really don’t want Tex dancing with your girlfriend, if you want to keep your girlfriend. Just… Continue Reading
Cowboys are different than you and me, especially after they’ve been drinking. You don’t want to screw up their dinner, that’s for sure. They’ll come at you with murder in their eyes. I know this from personal experience, a long-repressed… Continue Reading
It was near May Day in Shasta County, and that means I was itching for some cornhole. I have been really, ever since an acquaintance of ours, a realtor and mother of two for crying out loud, told us about… Continue Reading
To cut to the chase for a second, I’ll admit I do indeed have a spiritual problem and I go about solving it in my own personal ways, one of which involves curling myself into a tight little ball and… Continue Reading
MAGA hats off to President Donald J. Trump! After correctly admonishing Fake News for the better part of the past two years, he’s decided if he can’t beat ’em, might as well join ’em! That’s the best explanation for the… Continue Reading
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in an undisclosed Redding location, James Benno was choosing his words very carefully. Who can blame him? I’m asking him questions about concentrated cannabis, and just two days earlier, the Shasta County District Attorney’s office… Continue Reading
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