School’s out for the summer, political tempers are flaring and the time is right for fighting in the streets! Comedian Kathy Griffin’s mock decapitation of President Donald J. Trump tweeted to all the twits in Tweeterville last week laid out… Continue Reading
Trevor Adey doesn’t seem like a troubled man. There’s nothing on the outside that suggests anything is going wrong on the inside. But things are not going very well indeed. Adey, 37, suffers from low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, a rare form… Continue Reading
It’s official. Tex was the last man standing at the Whitmore Mountain Music Faire Saturday. At least he was the last man dancing. You really don’t want Tex dancing with your girlfriend, if you want to keep your girlfriend. Just… Continue Reading
It was near May Day in Shasta County, and that means I was itching for some cornhole. I have been really, ever since an acquaintance of ours, a realtor and mother of two for crying out loud, told us about… Continue Reading
To cut to the chase for a second, I’ll admit I do indeed have a spiritual problem and I go about solving it in my own personal ways, one of which involves curling myself into a tight little ball and… Continue Reading
MAGA hats off to President Donald J. Trump! After correctly admonishing Fake News for the better part of the past two years, he’s decided if he can’t beat ’em, might as well join ’em! That’s the best explanation for the… Continue Reading
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in an undisclosed Redding location, James Benno was choosing his words very carefully. Who can blame him? I’m asking him questions about concentrated cannabis, and just two days earlier, the Shasta County District Attorney’s office… Continue Reading
It doesn’t give me too much pleasure to be writing this on my 57th birthday. I can do the math. It’s not going to be too much longer before I check out. I might still be a teenager at heart,… Continue Reading
Writer’s Note: This story is my take on remarks made by Trump officials last week that indicate the administration may enforce federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized recreational use. My argument is that federal marijuana law has done… Continue Reading
Water, water, everywhere. I’ve lived in California since 1978 and I’ve never seen the north state so saturated with rain and runoff. The floods of 1997 have already been surpassed, at least in my mind, and the bad news is… Continue Reading
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