“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics,” Mark Twain famously wrote in the late 19th century. The phrase didn’t originate with Twain, but he’s the writer who popularized it, and it still applies today. Consider… Continue Reading
Millville Plains residents filed a lawsuit demanding a halt to any construction on the High Plains Shooting Sports Center until a full environmental impact report has been completed, according to a writ of mandate filed in the Shasta County Superior… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: Please join me in welcoming Barbara Rice’s summary of Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. Rice is perhaps best known to A News Cafe regulars as ANC’s admin assistant and comments moderator. The complete agenda and video… Continue Reading
Once upon a time — before Shasta County was overtaken in January by an ultra-right board majority — the words “special Board of Supervisors meeting” meant something, well, special, outside regular supervisors meetings. Yesterday was the board of supervisors eighth… Continue Reading
Shasta College Early Childhood Education Center & Lab, located in Redding, CA, has earned re-accreditation for an additional 5 years from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)—the world’s largest organization working on behalf of young children. NAEYC Accreditation… Continue Reading
Please don’t skip this post. It’s important. It’s been one year since my promise to limit any requests for financial support to this singular annual event, timed to happen right around A News Cafe’s birthday. No relentlessly annoying, gauche pleas… 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 Saturday, Dec. 9, Cottonwood Community Library will host a ‘Winter Wonderland’ event. In years past, the library has sponsored a tour of various homes in the community, but this year everything is happening in one place, the home of… Continue Reading
The last time A News Cafe wrote about the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District, dozens of residents were fed up with canal water seeping underground and creating a soggy springtime mess that lasted into the summer. Cracks in the canal soaked nearby… Continue Reading
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