On a muggy day in May which will go down in infamy in local politics, newly selected Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis fired Assistant ROV Joanne Francescut, a 17-year veteran of Shasta County’s elections office earlier today. “This… Continue Reading
When newly selected Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis was asked during interviews earlier this month what the first thing he would do if given the position, he said he’d restore transparency to the office. Saturday, Curtis chuckled as… Continue Reading
The final candidate interviewed by the board last Wednesday, Ellie Leigh Sharp, a Subject Matter Expert II and top-down integration specialist for the Nevada Secretary of State Elections Division, has worked in elections offices since 2007—about the same length of time as Assistant ROV Joanna Francescut. She was clearly more qualified than Curtis, who has no direct elections experience. Continue Reading
Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon can stop complaining about being the swing vote on the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. After joining District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye and District 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom in anointing underqualified Florida election… Continue Reading
Now that I’ve passed the Shasta County Board of Supervisors coverage baton to veteran journalist R.V. Scheide, I have more mental space to recalibrate, restore and explore random thoughts about various matters unrelated to the Shasta County Shitshow’s nearly five… Continue Reading
Local In-Home Support Services workers and attorneys from the Public Defender and District Attorney’s offices urgently pleaded for higher wages at Tuesday night’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. The IHSS workers, under the purple banner of Service Employees International… Continue Reading
This is an open letter to Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Corkey Harmon, from whom I believe to be the majority of the citizens of Shasta County when it comes to the recent vacancy in the Registrar of Voters/County Clerk… Continue Reading
President Donald J. Trump’s address to the joint session of Congress Tuesday night was an atrocity exhibition, a cavalcade of victims injured by Joe Biden’s Woke America, from a high school volleyball player beaned in the head by an alleged… Continue Reading
In a shocking scientific discovery that could upend the global commercial aviation industry, microscopic amounts of an antioxidant used as a gum inhibitor in jet fuel have been found to cause the deterioration of the brain’s frontal lobe in mammals,… Continue Reading
On Nov. 20 last year, Oak Run Elementary School District Superintendent Misti Livingston received a letter from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing’s Division of Professional Practices. It read: “Dear Ms. Livingston, “The Committee of Credentials, after careful review and consideration… Continue Reading
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