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Part 1, FINAL UPDATE – Local Election Postmortem: Board of Supes Goes MAGA, Redding Gets Redder

By Doni Chamberlain and RV Scheide Shasta County’s latest election results are in. Now, baring any unforeseen circumstances — like a recount — it’s all over but the shoutin’ for Shasta County’s Midterm Election. Click here to see a complete… Continue Reading

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Part 1 – Midterm Elections 2022: The Politics of Fear; or What a Long, Strange Violent Trip It’s Been

Photo montage by Shawn Schwaller.

If you’re a regular reader of A News Café, chances are you’ve already mailed in your ballot for the 2022 midterm elections. Perhaps your early voting was prompted by Proposition 1, the Right to Reproductive Freedom Act, which, if passed,… Continue Reading

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Unprecedented Redding City Council Race: Will Bethel & Stirring Church Members Become Council Majority?

Redding is teetering upon the unprecedented brink of being governed by a city-council majority comprised of followers of Bethel Church, The Stirring church or a combination of both. One Bethel Church elder, Julie Winter, is already on the Redding City… Continue Reading

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Transparency and the Shasta County Supervisor: A Comparison of Disclosures

Editor’s note: New information has been added re Baron Browning, below. Transparency. The word has been on almost every candidate’s lips this midterm campaign season; a valorous but vague pledge to get to the bottom of things and root out… Continue Reading

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Brains vs. Brawn in Shasta County Supervisor District 1 Primary Race

  The race to replace outgoing Shasta County Supervisor District 1 Joe Chimenti has turned into a classic contest pitting brains against brawn, with the future of the county’s soul at stake. The two main contenders for the seat are… Continue Reading

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A Mall-Free Market Street Reopens for Cars, Bikes and Pedestrians

Some 49 years ago, Linda Krueger Krtek was the last to take a ride on Market Street through downtown Redding. On Wednesday, she was the first. During the half-century between those trips, three blocks of Market Street were closed to… Continue Reading

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City’s Rate Increase: A Slap in Voters’ Faces

(Editor’s note: Redding City Councilman Michael Dacquisto published the following post on his Facebook page in response to a vote taken by himself and fellow council members Tuesday night. Dacquisto gave aNewsCafe.com permission to republish his FB post here today.) … Continue Reading

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Don’t Blame Winter; Chief Johnson Had the Idea First

Redding City Councilwoman Julie Winter has been getting plenty of negative press, but I think it’s time we even out the blame a little. After all, she wasn’t the first in Shasta County to come up with the idea of… Continue Reading

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Dutch Bros.’ Erin Resner Latest to Enter City Council Race; Bike Route Eyed; and Shasta Lake’s Big Bass Bring Big Bucks

Telling her supporters that she wants her children to have the “magical experience of growing up in Redding” that she enjoyed, business co-owner Erin Resner formally launched her City Council campaign at a noon rally on Friday in the Cascade… Continue Reading