In this episode of North State Breakdown, the focus is on the July 23rd Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting, where Jenny Nowain was forcibly removed and cited for peacefully protesting. The Breakdown also addresses procedural violations, civil rights infringements,… Continue Reading
This week the Breakdown does something a little different. We produced a short Documentary that takes a look at the events leading up to and including the July 23 2024 Board of Supervisor meeting and the events that ensued.
Shasta County has completed the first day of public interviews for the role of County Clerk/Registrar of Voters. Following interviewing eight candidates for the position, the Board of Supervisors has narrowed the list down to 4 candidates to advance to… Continue Reading
There has certainly been plenty of talk by local and sometimes national media about our Shasta County political chaos, but this article is for the rest of you. Those who would prefer to stay away, work a job, pay taxes,… Continue Reading
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story insinuated that CEO David Rickert knew of the Attorney General’s letter to Supervisor Patrick Jones in the winter. However, according to new information provided by CEO Rickert, he only became aware of… Continue Reading
Dear Supervisors,
The lack of transparency regarding the handling of the Attorney General’s letter pertaining to the Zogg Fire settlement investigation is disturbing. The public has yet to receive a satisfactory answer as to why the letter was not immediately disclosed when it was received by the County. Continue Reading
When it comes to the arc of the moral universe, I confess I was in the Ta-Nehisi Coates camp decades before he riffed off MLK in his 2015 bestseller, “Between the World and Me.”
And here we are now, in a state of chaos, confined to a box we might call Schrödinger’s County. We’re not binary liberal/conservative, left/right, Democrat/Republican. We’re all over the place, hundreds of chaotic collisions. It’s complicated. Continue Reading
Most candidates coming off an unexpected 20-point shellacking by a political novice in a primary election might pause and reflect on what went wrong; what they might do differently next time. But not Shasta County District 4 Supervisor Patrick Jones.… Continue Reading
Today Kevin Crye gets a second chance to preside over the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting as the new board chair. Expectations of success are low since Crye flunked from the start of the last meeting, his first as… Continue Reading
Shasta County has a long, sad, sordid history of improper land use practices. These hurtful decisions date to over a century ago. Jurors deliberating effects of the “Smoke Wars 1896-1917” were paid by local mine owners. ”Experts” gave testimony that… Continue Reading
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