Perhaps you once again hear George W. Bush’s familiar Texan dialect ringing in your head with all the post 9/11 talk of the Middle East lately. In the past few days, we’ve been on edge wondering how involved the United… Continue Reading
It’s been a while. The last time I wrote to all of you, we were staring down the barrel of an uncertain political future, and my misplaced optimism left me wanting to reassure the reading public that things would be… Continue Reading
The beauty of being an anonymous fake-journalist living among the fake “citizen journalists,” the self-appointed “experts,” the politicians, the public officials, and regular folk with interesting observations? People talk to me much more freely. Out of respect for the people… Continue Reading
8 p.m. Monday Editor’s note: Late this afternoon District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye suddenly canceled the improtu unofficial meeting he organized to take place 9:30 a.m. tomorrow on the Shasta County Administration Center steps. In posts created by Silence DoGood… Continue Reading
As I write, we have 31 days left until the general election—November 5, 2024. Fun ride so far, huh? If you haven’t wanted to pay attention to the news, it manages to find its way to you anyway through advertising,… Continue Reading
Today was another regular meeting of the local Board of Supervisors. Kevin Crye reiterated last week’s ultra-popular reduction of speaker time from three minutes to two minutes, and the distaste for that was evident in comments from speakers who tend… Continue Reading
It’s August 13, 2024. To say there’s been a lot going on within Shasta County government is an absurd understatement. The third attempt by the two *actual* Republican supervisors (not the three who have used their 3-2 majority to turn… Continue Reading
Please forgive the ShastaAnon-style headline: I decided to borrow from the worst. And honestly, that is much better than shameful Shasta County Board of Supervisors District 4 Supervisor Patrick Henry Jones deserves. Let’s dive in. Continue Reading
Those of you who took my advice and tuned in to the Board of Supervisors meeting (video pending) as they made a show of trying to act like they don’t have an agenda in their pending Registrar of Voters/County Clerk… 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
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