If you’re going to portray Hollywood hillbilly stereotypes, make sure you drive them over the mountain and off the cliff on the other side. That’s the only order given by the bosses at WGN America to the producers of “Outsiders,”… Continue Reading
As a journalist, I’ve been closely following the effort to legalize marijuana in California for at least the past five years. In the wake of Colorado, Washington and Oregon legalizing the recreational use of cannabis, there’s an assumption that California… Continue Reading
Say what you will about the State of Jefferson—and please do in the comments section below—the quixotic political movement seeking to carve out a 51st state from northern California and southern Oregon gets at least one thing right: City slickers… Continue Reading
Dear Santa, How are you? I hope things aren’t too cold up there at the North Pole. Give my regards to Mrs. Claus and the elves, whoops, I mean the little people. I realize it’s been a long time since… Continue Reading
Like many Americans, I was glued to the television set and the computer after a pair of Islamic terrorists attacked the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on Dec. 3, killing 14 people and injuring 21 others in a hail of gunfire.… Continue Reading
There’s nothing funny about cancer. As a small child only just coming to grips with the concept of mortality (the family cat got run over by a car) I remember huddling under the sheets at night, terrified that I’d soon… Continue Reading
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. I am a strong supporter of the right to keep and bear arms,… Continue Reading
We take our football seriously here in northern California. How seriously? Well, when Enterprise High School varsity football players forced the junior varsity players to strip and run naked across the field earlier this year, hardly anyone batted an eye.… Continue Reading
I don’t know about you, but It seems to me like hardly a week goes by without some scathing condemnation of Redding in the local media. The latest survey declared our city “unfit for human consumption,” or something like that.… Continue Reading
Judging from reader response to the first installment of this series on bringing broadband Internet to rural northern California, there are a lot of folks out there not getting the Internet they need, let alone want. There are many interconnected reasons for… Continue Reading
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