Waiting for the May 13 Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting to begin, Jim Rickert leaned his lanky body into a nearby wall and sighed. Jim and his wife, former Shasta County District 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert, own Prather Ranch… Continue Reading
It’s official. Now that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has posted topless photos of himself cavorting in a polluted Washington D.C. stream with his grandkids the United States is literally up shit creek without a paddle.… Continue Reading
For the 40 percent of Americans who’ve been fired at least once during their career, it can be the most unnerving question on a job application: Were you ever discharged or forced to resign from a position? Here at A… Continue Reading
Sometimes it’s hard not to feel that all the world’s problems are interconnected, and try as we might we’re never going to solve this cascading nightmare of blunders as we hurtle toward a burning future where human life on earth… Continue Reading
First District California Rep. Doug LaMalfa refuses to hold in-person town hall meetings with his constituents, who have very real questions about potential cuts to Social Security, Medicare, SNAP and other safety net programs within reach of Elon Musk’s DOGE… Continue Reading
Late Breaking News: County Counsel Joe Larmour has abandoned his legal effort to avoid writing a title and summary of a proposed election reform initiative the attorney announced at a special meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on… Continue Reading
As Clint Eastwood said in a “Fistful of Dollars,” a man’s life in these parts often depends on a mere scrap of information. Just as I was sitting down to write a report on Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors… Continue Reading
Ladies and gentlemen, this is no way to run a county. Your trusty correspondent is still recovering from Tuesday’s 13-hour meeting of the Shasta County Board of Supervisors and he does not hesitate to lay blame for this lengthy affair… Continue Reading
In a classic case of biting the hand that feeds you, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 at a special meeting Tuesday to suspend the Shasta County Elections Commission after two of its most ardent supporters filed yet… Continue Reading
“Luigi Mangione killed a man because of deny, defer, distract, defend. What’s the alternative to that, people?” So said an unnamed public speaker at Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting in apparent praise for Mangione, the 26-year-old programmer who… Continue Reading
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