During this morning’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting, an unexpected — by everyone, even Brad Garbutt — 3-2 vote catapulted a surprised Garbutt into one of two vacant seats of the toothless five-member Shasta County Elections Commission. The Elections… Continue Reading
Based on recent misreporting in our local media and blogs, I want to clear a few things up: • Public Safety and Security of County Buildings is the responsibility of the Sheriff’s Department. • The Media Room was created by… Continue Reading
This week the Breakdown does something a little different. We produced a short Documentary that takes a look at the events leading up to and including the July 23 2024 Board of Supervisor meeting and the events that ensued.
This North State Breakdown investigates controversial appointments made by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and instances of political retaliation. From financial ties influencing key roles to the removal of political opponents, The North State Breakdown uncovers troubling trends in… Continue Reading
There is zero love lost between Shasta County supervisors Tim Garman and Kevin Crye. In the last weeks their simmering dislike for one another has reached a boiling point that has slopped over into supervisors meetings. Their rift has also… Continue Reading
Mark this somber date in Shasta County’s history books: June 19, 2024 – Juneteenth, as a matter of fact — not that Shasta County recognizes anything as progressive as Juneteenth. June 19, 2024 is the date when the hard-right majority… Continue Reading
Who died and made Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye king? Renowned for a pants-on-fire personality disorder, low moral fortitude, and what must be a record for the shortest stint in office before being targeted for recall, King Crye is… Continue Reading
The plot thickens with additional questions about the Attorney General’s Jan. 29 letter to District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones, specifically, when exactly did David Rickert — Shasta County’s CEO — learn of the bombshell letter, how, and from whom. A… Continue Reading
Friday morning, as District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye pontificated and opined about Shasta County business from outside a Redding coffee shop in front of an audience of nearly 20 supporters and curious citizens, North State social media sites were simultaneously… Continue Reading
When it comes to the arc of the moral universe, I confess I was in the Ta-Nehisi Coates camp decades before he riffed off MLK in his 2015 bestseller, “Between the World and Me.”
And here we are now, in a state of chaos, confined to a box we might call Schrödinger’s County. We’re not binary liberal/conservative, left/right, Democrat/Republican. We’re all over the place, hundreds of chaotic collisions. It’s complicated. Continue Reading
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