Shasta County Board of Education candidate Rich Gallardo is on a mission to destroy public education as we know it. Gallardo is a fanatical gun rights advocate and COVID-19 denier who may be best known for his failed attempt to perform a citizen’s arrest on the entire board of supervisors in October 2020. Continue Reading
Just in time to go back to school, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued updated COVID-19 guidelines that are practically guaranteed to increase the spread of the serious acute respiratory virus that has killed more than 1… Continue Reading
Bethel Music troubadour Sean Feucht is the Pied Piper of Christian nationalism. As voluminously documented by my A News Café colleague Shawn Schwaller here and here, Feucht has an exhibited an almost Zelig-like ability to turn up at the historical… Continue Reading
It may have taken an investigation by the Fair Political Practices Commission, but Connecticut son-of-a-billionaire Reverge Anselmo has finally filed as a major campaign donor in Shasta County after giving nearly $1 million to local rightwing causes during the past… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: New information has been added re Baron Browning, below. Transparency. The word has been on almost every candidate’s lips this midterm campaign season; a valorous but vague pledge to get to the bottom of things and root out… Continue Reading
I simultaneously gave myself whiplash and déjà vu watching the House January 6th Committee Hearing and the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting in tandem on Tuesday. In the former live-stream, the House committee attempted to hold Donald “Big Lie”… Continue Reading
“The waves of what we have done here are going to ripple throughout history for the rest of history. As long as there’s a United States of America, what we did right here, what you did in Shasta County, is… Continue Reading
Shasta County Clerk/Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen once taught me a valuable lesson. I’ve voted in every election since I turned 18, and after four decades, voting had become perfunctory in nature to me, something I took for granted.… Continue Reading
“You can’t spend your way out of debt,” says square-shouldered crew-cut Kevin Crye on his most recent campaign flier, a large blob of something — sweat, a shadow — blotting the light blue shirt covering his expansive chest. “Kevin Crye… Continue Reading
It didn’t take long for Shasta County District Attorney contender Erik Jensen to blow himself out of the water at the League of Women Voters’ candidate forum earlier this month. After burnishing his conservative bona fides and mocking the LWV… Continue Reading
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