What do Bethel Church senior pastor Bill Johnson, his wife Beni, their son Brian and their daughter Leah Valenzuela all have in common, besides family lineage? Well, for starters, all of them are Bethel higher-ups; not just Bill. Beni is… Continue Reading
There’s a reason hucking a football 70 yards downfield toward a dozen teammates and opponents jockeying for position in the end zone is called a “hail Mary pass.” Only 10 percent of such passes are completed in the NFL, and… Continue Reading
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sleeping upstairs in a two-story shotgun shack in Locke, the rickety Chinese fishing village in the Sacramento River Delta some 30 miles south, down a winding levee road from the state… Continue Reading
The following Q&A is a transcript from the Saturday, July 17 episode of Common Ground Radio, co-hosted by Christian Gardenier and R.V. Scheide. (Tune in 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays to KCNR 96.5 FM/1460AM.) This transcript has been edited… Continue Reading
My, oh, my, how the mighty have fallen! Chances are the Red, White and Blueprint project wouldn’t exist if Palo Cedro restaurateur and RW&B co-producer Carlos Zapata’s seditious rant before the Shasta County Board of Supervisors hadn’t gone viral last… Continue Reading
District 4 Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Henry Jones is hurting. From the moment Episode 3 of Red White and Blueprint’s docuseries opens to the gloomy retro doo-wop strains of The Hazelnuts, it’s clear Jones is in some serious pain. You… Continue Reading
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