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Supervisors Set New Ejection Record Tuesday; Hear 3 Hours of Public Comments Then End Meeting With Plenty of Verbal Fireworks

Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors set a new record Tuesday by ejecting an audience member and clearing the board chambers within the first 10 minutes of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at 9 a.m. This was the fourth such ejection… Continue Reading

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Senate Passes AB 969 Tuesday, Even as Costs of Shasta County’s Manual Tally of Election Ballots Continue to Rise

By a vote of 30 – 6 late Tuesday, California’s State Senate passed Assembly Bill (AB) 969 prohibiting Shasta County and other similarly minded voting jurisdictions from cancelling voting system contracts and counting votes by hand except under very limited… Continue Reading

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Lack of Decorum, Discriminatory Enforcement of Speaker Guidelines Causes Chaos at Shasta County Board of Supervisors Meeting

Never in my 45 years of covering public meetings at every level — from tiny school boards in Shasta County up to the California State Legislature — have I ever witnessed democracy devolve into such total anarchy and chaos as… Continue Reading

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MyPillow CEO’s Election-Crime-Bureau Summit Reveals Shasta Supervisor Kevin Crye Among Featured Speakers

It’s official. District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye of Redding is one of 18 featured speakers attending Michael Lindell’s “Election Crime Bureau Summit” Aug. 16-17 at University Plaza in Springfield, Missouri. Apparently, Crye’s self-described “nothing burger” face-to-face meeting in late March… Continue Reading

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Zogg Fire Settlement Issues Reignite Shasta County Board Discussion Yet Again, Reopens Victims’ Trauma Wounds

For the third time in three weeks, Shasta County Supervisors met Friday in special session to discuss the $50 million Zogg Fire civil settlement reached between District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett and officers of Pacific Gas & Electric, as well as… Continue Reading

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Supervisor Crye Seeks Independent Attorney to Investigate Shasta County’s District Attorney

Without citing specific evidence, District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye called for an outside criminal attorney to look into why Shasta County District Attorney Stephanie Bridgett did not follow through on a criminal prosecution of Pacific Gas & Electric following the… Continue Reading

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3 Shasta Supes Forego Decorum, Reject Code-of-Conduct Item; 2 of Those Supes Attended Event Where A News Café Publisher Was Assaulted

Rancor, snide comments and sarcasm filled the air Tuesday during the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting as the five-member board split 3-2 to defeat adoption of a Code of Conduct used by 39 other counties, all members of the… Continue Reading

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Public Pushes Supervisors on Wind Farm, Hand-Count Election Controversy, Exodus of County Employees

A 90-minute gripe session that led Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors 9 a.m. meeting Tuesday seemed to signal growing public dissatisfaction with an apparent lack of progress on various substantive issues. Following a brief lesson on historical disenfranchisement of citizens… Continue Reading