There may be potentially punitive legal consequences after all for a public speaker, Alex Bielecki, who hurled a racial slur during a Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. Continue Reading
Hurled profanity. Pounded lecterns. Delivered death threats. Raised fists. Jeers. Yells. Sneers. Bullhorns. Bullying. Crude props and signs. Sarcasm. Ridicule. Hissing. Booing. Shouting. Mockery. Those words and worse describe the state of incivility and chaos found inside the Shasta County… Continue Reading
For the third time in as many months, Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors upheld a 3-2 vote Tuesday to scrap the county’s Democracy Suite 2.2 ballot counting system leased by Dominion Voting Systems of Denver, Colo., in favor of a… Continue Reading
Last week, without a whiff of a warning or any official blessings or encouragement from sane county staff, fellow supervisors or rational citizens, Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye flew across the country for a face-to-face meeting with his… Continue Reading
Tuesday evening in Redding, hundreds of concerned, curious citizens arrived early to the Shasta County Board of Supervisors’ vestibule outside the board chambers. The expectant crowd crammed together to secure seats inside for a politically polarizing popular agenda item: R4,… Continue Reading
Phil Fountain is a pseudonym for ANC’s prodigal cartoonist, Philbert Phountain, who has recently returned from a working hiatus where he served as the lead fact-checker for George Santos.
He lives in Shasta County Continue Reading
Five years into an eight-year agreement with Dominion Voting Systems Inc. of Denver, Colo., to provide Shasta County with precinct-by-precinct ballot printing, counting and reporting hardware and associated computer software, the county’s Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted 3-2 to direct… Continue Reading
A word of advice to any organization or anyone who may one day find themselves with hat in hand before the Shasta County Board of Supervisors or any at-will county employee who wishes to remain employed: Stay on the good… Continue Reading
Some may call it a coincidence that in the middle of the Sept. 13 Shasta County Board of Supervisors public comment period — precisely as the meeting was being blatantly hijacked by election-denier Dr. Douglas Frank, abetted by Supervisor Patrick… Continue Reading
On a scale of 1 to 10 – 1 being totally tranquil, and 10 being fully freaked out – how would you rate your stress level if you learned that the FBI had seized the cellphone of a high-profile person… Continue Reading
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