Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors finally laid to rest Tuesday a festering dispute with Dominion Voting Systems by unanimously approving a payment of $171,618.05 to terminate its contract. Early termination of the county’s seven-year contract with Dominion for ballot preparation… Continue Reading
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
As United Methodists, we are committed to challenging unjust systems of power and access by standing against, speaking against, and working against racism. We abhor the racist hate speech used and condoned at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday, May 30. 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
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