My, oh, my, how the mighty have fallen! Chances are the Red, White and Blueprint project wouldn’t exist if Palo Cedro restaurateur and RW&B co-producer Carlos Zapata’s seditious rant before the Shasta County Board of Supervisors hadn’t gone viral last… Continue Reading
Even though he has been out of the public spotlight over the last few weeks, Carlos Zapata is one of the leading voices in the movement to recall three Shasta County Board of Supervisors members. He is an extremist right-wing… Continue Reading
Christopher Joseph Meagher, whose violent acts were captured on The Tropics bar surveillance footage, is in custody at the Shasta County Jail for his attack upon a hearing-impaired man who’s known thus far as only “Bob”. Meagher, 45, who also… Continue Reading
District 4 Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Henry Jones is hurting. From the moment Episode 3 of Red White and Blueprint’s docuseries opens to the gloomy retro doo-wop strains of The Hazelnuts, it’s clear Jones is in some serious pain. You… Continue Reading
I have an on-and-off relationship with Carlos Zapata, founder of Red, White and Blueprint, the production company that’s making a documentary series of the effort to recall three Republicans from the Shasta County Board of Supervisors for following COVID-19 health… Continue Reading
A darkness spreads over the land as three horsemen gallop toward the abyss, urging those who would follow them to recall three county supervisors, drain the swamp and bring back to Shasta County the pioneer spirit that won the West.… Continue Reading
It’s laughable, in retrospect, to recall that back in January, some folks speculated whether tough-guy/Red White and Blueprint leader Carlos Zapata’s reason for being in Tampa, Florida, was to meet up with Sean Feucht, the infamous, ultra-evangelical, Bethel-mega-church, jet-setting musician/plague-rat.… Continue Reading
While there’s a mounting, messy statewide movement afoot to recall California Governor Gavin Newsom, here in Shasta County there are abundant threats to also recall some Shasta County Supervisors. And when I say some, I mean that of the five… Continue Reading
As I prepare to publish this post early Friday morning, the world still awaits word – three days after the election – about who will be the next president of the United States of America: Joe Biden or Donald Trump.… Continue Reading
Hello, new North State resident! Perhaps you’re a pandemic refugee who’s escaped a big city that’s been in purple lockdown for months. How frustrating that must have been! Welcome! I hope you were able to secure housing, and that your… Continue Reading
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