Despite considerable pressure from fellow Redding City Council members and many community members who spoke in support of it, Councilman Adam McElvain stuck to his guns last week and blocked a proposed half-cent sales tax hike from going before Redding… Continue Reading
If Redding voters see fit to approve a half-cent sales tax hike to bolster police and firefighter ranks and increase jail capacity—which in of itself is a pretty big ‘if’ at this point—it will require some trust in the electorate… Continue Reading
When it comes to public safety in Redding, there are two options: lower expectations or raise revenues. Both the City Council and the city manager support the latter option, and using proceeds from a sales-tax hike to make it happen.… Continue Reading
For the past two years, the Redding Veterans Resource Center has quietly been using its Park Marina House to help homeless veterans get back on their feet. On Wednesday, the center decided to make a little noise. To start with,… Continue Reading
Redding officials have been asking residents how they feel about public safety, and the responses shouldn’t come as a big surprise: people are tired of getting ripped off and they want to see more cops on the job. City Manager… Continue Reading
While a wrecking ball claimed one beloved Redding restaurant last week, another much-loved eatery made a return to downtown. Gone except for the memories (and its iconic neon sign that the Shasta Historical Society is hoping to secure for posterity)… Continue Reading
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
Sometimes it really does help to know a guy. After 32 years on the job as a maintenance supervisor at Benton Airpark, Glen Dennis has gotten to know plenty of guys (and gals), and those relationships came in handy when… Continue Reading
Kaitlyn Prader of Redding, a self-professed introvert, was motivated enough to overcome her shyness to join more than 700 others on Sunday for the second Redding Women’s March. “What doesn’t,” she replied when asked what issues prompted her to leave… Continue Reading
As a young boy growing up in Dunsmuir during the Great Depression, Nicola “Nick” Girimonte helped put food on the family table by selling fruit to Southern Pacific railroad passengers. That initiative, work ethic and an early understanding of customer… Continue Reading
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