Herb Caen: Pulitzer Prize winning King of the Columnists. More than 16,000 columns of 1,000 words each over almost 60 years. He wrote a column every day except Saturdays until 1990, when he cut back to five a week. Holy… Continue Reading
Following 10 hours of sometimes raucous public hearings spread across two days, Shasta County officials added another $5 million earmarked for planning and construction of a jail annex to their nearly $659 million budget for Fiscal Year 2023-24. The proposed… Continue Reading
A standing-room only crowd — many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “No Room for Racism” or “Recall Kevin Crye” — filled to overflowing the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers in downtown Redding Tuesday even before Chair Patrick Jones gaveled the… Continue Reading
On Saturday, thanks to six performers from San Francisco, Sacramento and Redding, an entertainment epiphany hit the Cascade Theatre in downtown Redding, Calif., like a rainbow meteor from the Land of Oz. These performers wore their best couture, changing 12… Continue Reading
The day before neighborhoods in Chico were littered with fliers that contained hate speech, a man living in the hills above the small college town shared a picture on social media of piles of nearly 30 different fliers – the… Continue Reading
There may be potentially punitive legal consequences after all for a public speaker, Alex Bielecki, who hurled a racial slur during a Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. Continue Reading
High above the smoke and flames of each north state wildfire, a supervisor circles in a Vietnam War-era spotter plane, serving as an airborne air traffic controller and directing the aerial attack as planes and helicopters battle the blaze with… Continue Reading
Hurled profanity. Pounded lecterns. Delivered death threats. Raised fists. Jeers. Yells. Sneers. Bullhorns. Bullying. Crude props and signs. Sarcasm. Ridicule. Hissing. Booing. Shouting. Mockery. Those words and worse describe the state of incivility and chaos found inside the Shasta County… Continue Reading
Tehama and Trinity County Seals – Tehama’s has the signature of the artist. What’s up with that? Let’s start off with a little update on “Lettergate”, the unintentional Brown Act violation committed by the Tehama County Board of Supervisors on… Continue Reading
If you’re one of those incredible, generous, conscientious people who support A News Cafe financially — either as a voluntary subscriber or a paid advertiser — then today’s post is especially for you. Because of you, ANC won several awards… Continue Reading
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