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Gospel Moment: The Books They Cannot Shred
A shred truck waited behind the Elections Office on Market Street. On September 30, Registrar Clint Curtis opened ten November 2024 boxes and found log sheets in seven of them — sheets that should never have been sealed in with the ballots. Those sheets are part of what Kari Chilson requested on September 4 under Public Records Act request #26-1766: the December 3 canvass file, including batch sheets, tabulator tapes, observer sign-ins, and chain-of-custody logs. The truck le
PET OF THE WEEK: Bonded Pair – Winston & Willow!
Say hello to these adorable siblings, Winston and Willow! They're a super-cute mix: half French Bulldog and half Basset Hound. Expect the best of both worlds—those classic Frenchie smushy faces, playful energy, and those long, floppy Basset ears that will melt your heart!
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Redding City Council Candidate Forum - Sequoia Middle School
Recently all but one of the candidates for Redding City Council participated in a Candidate forum.
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Clint Curtis Shasta County ROV - 2024 Ballots going to the Shredder
Video of 2024 Shasta County Ballots Going to the Shredder
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Is Shasta County Attempting to Bury or Destroy Evidence?
Excerpts from Shasta Counth Board of Supervisors meeting 15 September 2026.
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NCS Shasta County Town Hall Set for October 17 in Redding
New California State (NCS) will host a Shasta County Town Hall on Saturday, October 17, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Red Lion Hotel Redding, 1830 Hilltop Drive. Organizers say the meeting will cover the past, present, and future of the New California State movement and provide the latest updates on activity in Shasta County. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions. According to the group’s website, New California State is a movement seeking to form a
Kari Chilson
36 minutes ago1 min read
Letter to the Editor: Reverse the Police and Fire Cuts on October 20th
I am writing to urge you to reconsider the decision to cut police and fire services and to vote to reverse those cuts when the budget returns to the Council on October 20.
I understand the City faces a serious budget deficit of about $7 to $8 million. No one is suggesting that the problem can be ignored. Difficult decisions must be made. However, cutting public safety should not be the first solution considered. It should be the last. According to Council Member Tenessa Audet
Bruce Russell
2 hours ago3 min read
Redding City Clerk Race Left Off Ballot, Echoing 2022 Shasta Lake Omission Under Prior Registrar
SHASTA COUNTY, CA — Shasta County voters opening their November 3 general election ballots have discovered that the uncontested race for Redding City Clerk is missing, despite state law requiring it to appear. The omission, which Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has attributed to a misunderstanding of election code, is prompting city officials to prepare for a special election that could cost taxpayers $200,000 to $300,000. Incumbent Sharlene Tipton, who was appointed to the
Elisa Ballard
3 hours ago5 min read
Vendors Wanted for Fall Harvest Market at Arise Academy in Anderson, CA
Friday and Saturday, October 23 and 24, 2026, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Contact Arise Academy for vendor space at 530-351-4041 or AriseAcademy1776@gmail.com
Elisa Ballard
5 hours ago1 min read
Shasta Unfiltered Turns One Year Old
Free to Read and Paid for by the People Who Read It REDDING — A year ago, five people decided the North State deserved a paper that would publish news worth reading without charging people for the privilege of reading it. Gary Peyrot, Kari Chilson, Elisa Ballard, Margaret Cantrell, and Jerry Sanchez started Shasta Unfiltered in September 2025. No corporate newsroom. No grant from a liberal NGO with a preferred viewpoint stapled to the check. A small crew of patriots, a websi
Shasta Unfiltered
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New York Amish Face $118,000 in Fines and Possible Exodus Over Vaccine Mandate as Case Returns to Supreme Court
California Families Already Live Under a Parallel Mandate with Only Medical Exemptions That Are Rarely Given New York’s 2019 elimination of religious exemptions for school vaccinations has put Old Order Amish communities in direct conflict with the state. Three private, community-funded Amish schools have been fined a combined $118,000, and their legal challenge—Miller v. McDonald—is now back before the U.S. Supreme Court after lower courts sided with the state. The situation
rex ballard
1 day ago5 min read
China’s Media Machine Is Selling Americans on Killing Their Own Data Centers. Trump Is Not Buying It.
Beijing’s English-language outlets and China-linked accounts are pushing one story to U.S. audiences: AI data centers are driving up power bills, straining the grid, and enriching tech companies at ordinary people’s expense. At home, the Chinese state subsidizes power for its own AI data centers and races to build more. That split is the tell. A large U.S. data center complex. Facilities like these have become the focus of both local opposition and Chinese state media coverag
rex ballard
2 days ago5 min read
Intentional Election Interference or Incompetence?
County IT and HR Departments are Slow to Respond to Requests REDDING — Remaining staff in the Shasta County Elections Office are working under heightened pressure to prepare for the November 3 election while short-handed, according to confidential sources inside the office. Five employees are out on sick or medical leave, and two more have recently left their positions. Two of those on leave abruptly took sick leave after security video showed them involved in entry into the
Elisa Ballard
2 days ago4 min read
Health and Human Services Agency Opens First Clinic to Study Vaccine Injuries
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services opened a new National Institutes of Health clinic this week to evaluate and study patients who report health problems after vaccination, the centerpiece of a broader push by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to document, investigate, and treat what the department calls potential vaccine-related injuries. The clinic opened Oct. 5 on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. HHS and NIH leaders marked the opening with a ribbon-
Elisa Ballard
2 days ago3 min read
Fire Station 3 Cut by Redding City Council to Close Huge Budget Gap
Redding City Council Meeting Ends After Midnight REDDING — After a meeting that ran more than seven hours on Tuesday, the Redding City Council cut 13.5 vacant police positions, voted to close Fire Station 3, and reset the city’s general-fund plan around flatter sales-tax growth and a goal of restoring a 10 percent reserve by fiscal year 2029. The same night, the council adopted a state-mandated turf-watering ordinance and heard that Redding Electric Utility’s cash position is
Elisa Ballard
3 days ago12 min read
Cottonwood Certified Farmers Market Draws Shasta County-ians To Cottonwood Community Center & Park
The Cottonwood Community Center and the Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce joined forces on Sunday, October 4, 2026, to bring Shasta County its…still another… Cottonwood Certified Farmers Market at the Cottonwood Community Center Park, located at 20595 Gas Point Road, Cottonwood (behind the ball fields). Close to two dozen vendors were open—and ready to show-when people began arriving at nine o’clock Sunday morning, October 4, 2026, to partake (mentally & physically) of farm-fres
Jerry Sanchez, Sr.
4 days ago1 min read
Citizens Rally Outside Shasta County Board Chambers to Protest Election Materials Destruction
REDDING — A group of concerned Shasta County residents gathered Monday afternoon outside the Board of Supervisors chambers at 1450 Court Street to protest what they called the illegal destruction of election materials at the Registrar of Voters office on Saturday, October 3. The 3 p.m. demonstration marked the second protest this week. Participants carried signs, flags, and an Appeal to Heaven banner. They said their goal was to remind supervisors and County Counsel Joseph La
Kari Chilson
5 days ago3 min read
Governor's Race Tightening as Hilton Points to Beccera's Misleading Statement about His Parents and Hilton's Digital Ad Creates Controversy
Democrat Xavier Becerra has not agreed to another debate with Republican Steve Hilton after their only scheduled fall matchup, while a Hilton campaign poll taken immediately afterward shows the governor’s race tightening. The week has also brought a fight over Becerra’s family story and a backlash, much of it from Republicans, against a sexually suggestive Hilton ad aimed at liberal voters. The two nominees to succeed termed-out Gov. Gavin Newsom had debated for an hour on CN
Elisa Ballard
5 days ago4 min read
President Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Lowering Diesel Prices
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday that temporarily allows dyed, off-road diesel on the highway and defers the federal excise tax on that fuel through Dec. 31, a step the White House says is meant to cut costs for farmers, truckers, and other diesel users. The order, titled “Emergency Tax Relief on Diesel Fuel,” directs the Treasury secretary, in consultation with the secretary of war, to determine within five days whether relief is authorize
Elisa Ballard
5 days ago2 min read
No Department Gets a Blank Check
Public safety comes first. That does not make it untouchable. Opinion Piece Political Cartoon - Satire Mark Mezzano, candidate for City Council, has drawn a hard line. Public safety, he says, is off limits for budget cuts. At the Chamber of Commerce forum on September 16, he refused to put police and fire on the table and instead pointed to park promises and other spending. He is not the only candidate talking that way. The priority is right. The blank check is not. A city ha
Rex Ballard
6 days ago4 min read
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