To the Members of the Redding City Council Redding City Manager Director Travis Menne, Community Services Department I am writing to express my support for renewing a long-term lease for the Redding Rodeo Grounds. The rodeo is a long-established historic… Continue Reading
District 3 Supervisor challenger Corkey Harmon showed up with 2 minutes to spare before the 6 p.m. start of his first public one-on-one face-off with two-term incumbent Mary Rickert. The forum was hosted by the Shasta League of Woman Voters… Continue Reading
For the first time in 16 years, voters in the Gateway Unified School District will be presented with a bond measure dedicated to raising funds for new construction, renovating existing school buildings and athletic facilities, upgrading computers and other technology… Continue Reading
Please indulge me while I share some proud news about A News Cafe’s recent awards from the California News Publishers Association. We were notified some months back that we were finalists, but we received the actual awards in the mail… Continue Reading
Judith Menoher, a 77-year-old retired educator and highly respected lifelong community volunteer, became the latest casualty of District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye’s grudge-fueled mean streak, assisted by District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones during Tuesday’s board of supervisors meeting. “There was… Continue Reading
Sometimes, I miss the good old days before “woke” when you could call a moron a moron. These days, to soften the blow, we employ fancy scientific-sounding euphemisms such as the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe those unfortunate individuals with limited… Continue Reading
It’s been over 30 years since my last letter to the local paper. I haven’t felt so compelled as I do at this moment in time. As a person over 80 years old, living in Shasta County since 1944, I… Continue Reading
If, perhaps, like me, you’ve felt as if you’ve been living on Earth Two this past year, where logic and common sense are foreign concepts, up is down, left is right, and the madmen and mad women of the asylum… Continue Reading
Win Carpenter is ramping up his campaign to run for the District 3 Shasta County Supervisor seat. Carpenter will be running against long-time incumbent, Mary Rickert, who recently announced she planned to run for a third term. The Carpenter and… Continue Reading
On Tuesday evening, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors will consider board chair Patrick Jones’ request to transform his 151-acre parcel on the Millville Plains into a commercial recreation zone so Jones can build his dream project, a state-of-the-art sports… Continue Reading
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