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
Yes, some Law Enforcement (L.E.) officers have unjustifiably brutalized and killed people of color, LGBQT, and Female Americans; most of America knows this. But, here in Redding, at the April 05 Hands-Off rally, all that was Continue Reading
Description: More than 1,000 people showed up in Redding for the Hands Off protest, and in this episode, I break down what that growing turnout means for Shasta County and beyond. We’re seeing the real impact of federal cuts from… Continue Reading
It’s been a while. The last time I wrote to all of you, we were staring down the barrel of an uncertain political future, and my misplaced optimism left me wanting to reassure the reading public that things would be… Continue Reading
This is an open letter to Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon, from whom I believe to be the majority of the citizens of Shasta County when it comes to the recent vacancy in the Registrar of Voters/County Clerk… Continue Reading
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
Shasta County’s criminal justice system is making do while under tremendous strain. That was the overriding message the Board of Supervisors heard again Monday evening from local crime enforcement leaders during a special meeting that lasted three hours. It was… Continue Reading
Late Breaking News: County Counsel Joe Larmour has abandoned his legal effort to avoid writing a title and summary of a proposed election reform initiative the attorney announced at a special meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on… Continue Reading
As Clint Eastwood said in a “Fistful of Dollars,” a man’s life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. Just as I was sitting down to write a report on Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors… Continue Reading
One of the drawbacks of being a physical being mired in the space/time continuum is you can’t be two places at once. So while your trusted correspondent was covering Tuesday’s meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors, the real… Continue Reading
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