Here’s a question for all you restaurant owners, cattle ranchers, strawberry farmers, construction contractors and any other local businesses reliant on Latino labor, documented and undocumented, not to mention all the customers dependent on your products and services: When ICE and… Continue Reading
It was precisely noon when Bob Sanders pulled up to From the Hearth in downtown Redding on his bicycle Saturday. He was right on time. The 70-year-old Jewish American from New Hampshire left the Bay Area last Monday on a… Continue Reading
As the Shasta County Board of Supervisors (SCBOS) enters its lengthy three-day budget hearings, let us understand a few things. Shasta County heavily relies on federal and state funds for various programs and services; we are a welfare county. Continue Reading
On a muggy day in May which will go down in infamy in local politics, newly selected Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis fired Assistant ROV Joanne Francescut, a 17-year veteran of Shasta County’s elections office earlier today. “This… Continue Reading
Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours at the library community room along with about 75 others. The occasion was “Meet Your New ROV: Clint Curtis” sponsored by none other than Patrick H. Jones, former BOS blight. And introducing him,… Continue Reading
When newly selected Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis was asked during interviews earlier this month what the first thing he would do if given the position, he said he’d restore transparency to the office. Saturday, Curtis chuckled as… Continue Reading
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
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
At a recent demonstration in Redding, one sign stood out among the rest. “Hands off! cancer funding,” read the one waved by Cori Casebeer of Redding. While others at the April rally protested Trump administration threats to slash any future… Continue Reading
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