Head east on Highway 44 toward Lassen Peak and turn south on Millville Plains Road shortly after you pass Palo Cedro, and you might as well be in a different state. Kansas perhaps. Nebraska. Or maybe an Andrew Wyeth painting.… Continue Reading
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
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the White moderate who is more devoted to ‘order’ than… Continue Reading
Tuesday morning, a slender, white-haired, 89-year-old Korean War veteran with a blue plaid shirt sat quietly in the front row of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers. His face betrayed no emotion as he watched and listened. Occasionally he… Continue Reading
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
Small towns are all the rage these days and chances are Shasta County District 4 supervisor candidate Matt Plummer comes from a smaller town than you do. That would be Califon, New Jersey, population 1005. Founded as “California” in 1849,… Continue Reading
Election fraud conspiracy theorist Jeffrey O’Donnell declined to appear in person at Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones’s Town Hall Thursday night. Instead, he chose to appear live via video feed from his home in Florida, transforming the event into a… Continue Reading
If you believe that District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye is a conservative victim targeted by liberals who want Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom to replace Crye with a flaming liberal snowflake, then I have some bad news for you: You’ve been… Continue Reading
A standing-room only crowd — many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with “No Room for Racism” or “Recall Kevin Crye” — filled to overflowing the Shasta County Board of Supervisors chambers in downtown Redding Tuesday even before Chair Patrick Jones gaveled the… Continue Reading
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
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