Return of the Road Hat
I am a superstitious man. When I chance upon a tarnished penny on the ground my fate hangs in the balance. If the coin is heads up, I pocket it and thank God for the good luck. If the coin… Continue Reading
R.V. Scheide
The Valley of Fear – California, Cannabis and Killing the American Dream
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. –1 John 4:20 I like… Continue Reading
Review: Riverfront Playhouse’s ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ – A Fruitful Production
This was our first visit to the Riverfront Playhouse, and we were rewarded with a compelling rendition of Steinbeck’s novel about itinerant farmers fleeing Oklahoma’s Dust Bowl in the 1930s.
Director Samantha Fork intentionally set out to make Steinbeck’s classic relevant to today’s world, a task aided by the author’s Continue Reading
Return of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club – Biker Sees Red Over Proposed Park Fee Hike
“What are you rebelling against, Johnny?” “Whaddaya got?” –The Wild One, 1953 Doug LaMalfa and I are Facebook friends, but I take it with a grain of salt. It’s not like we know each other, unless he remembers the time… Continue Reading
The Road Hat
My brother is mildly famous around these parts for spotting stuff by the side of the road; dead animals mostly, rattlesnakes, deer, wild pigs, bear, but also tools, rope, money and once even a humongous rhino horn dildo. Occasionally he… Continue Reading
Get Benno! Shasta County Snuffs Out Medical Marijuana — And Gun Rights, Too?
Sometimes, I wonder what the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office have been smoking. Wasn’t it just six months ago they were telling voters that Measure A, by totally banning all outdoor medical marijuana cultivation… Continue Reading
Tea Party Tent Show – Notes on the State of Jefferson
I’m a sucker for lost causes and the State of Jefferson is more lost than most. The quixotic notion that a half-million citizens in northern California and southern Oregon’s rural counties, frustrated with lack of representation at the state level,… Continue Reading
Growing Pains
In February, when local medical marijuana advocates were able to turn back a proposed zoning ordinance that would have banned all outdoor medicinal cannabis cultivation in Shasta County, it was a watershed moment. In less than a month, activists collected… Continue Reading
Heaven on Two Wheels
“God wired us a little bit differently than everybody else.” —Invocation by race chaplain Fred Sumrall at the Shasta Dam Grand Prix, Sunday, April 13 Seconds after being informed that there were perhaps more than a few loose screws among… Continue Reading
Punked in Redding
They say you can’t go home again, but sometimes you’ve got no place left to go. Which, without further elaboration, explains how I’ve come to find myself living with my parents deep in the forested foothills east of Redding. It… Continue Reading
