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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
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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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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
16 hours 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
17 hours 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
17 hours 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
1 day 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.
3 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
4 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
4 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
4 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
4 days ago4 min read
CV Youth Falcons Fall Craft and Car Show Benefits Area Middle School Students
Updated 10/6/2026 Shasta Lake City’s Clair Engle Park was the place to be on Friday, October 2, 2026, as the CV Youth Falcons organization hosted a fundraiser to support sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students participating on football and cheer teams. In addition to the dozens of vendors, there were balloon animals, music, food trucks, face painting, raffles, cotton candy, car show awards, flavored lemonade, Red Bulls served by cheerleaders, a beer booth for adults, and
Jerry Sanchez, Sr.
6 days ago2 min read
Suspect in Palo Cedro hit-and-run is in Shasta County Jail on attempted-murder allegation
Dustin Alan Mingarelli, 47, was booked Thursday after an overnight manhunt ended with his arrest in Napa. Carlos Zapata remains hospitalized. PALO CEDRO — The man accused of intentionally running down a Palo Cedro Rodeo Association member with a pickup is in the Shasta County Jail. Dustin Alan Mingarelli, 47, in a Shasta County Jail booking photo released to local media. Credit: Shasta County Sheriff’s Office Dustin Alan Mingarelli, 47, identified in local coverage as a Reddi
rex ballard
6 days ago3 min read
Shred Date Moved Up to Saturday as County Orders Destruction of Records Still Under a Public Records Act Request
Political Cartoon Shasta County is Involved in a Possible Unlawful Destruction of Public Records Redding, CA October 2, 2026 On the morning of September 30, while a shredding company employee stood ready to wheel ballots to the shredding truck parked behind the Elections Office, Shasta County Registrar of Voters opened sealed ballot boxes for the November 2024 election and found log sheets in the boxes. Those log sheets should not have been commingled with the ballots and
Elisa Ballard
Oct 25 min read
45th Honey Bee Festival draws thousands, keeps Palo Cedro Park’s gates open
PALO CEDRO — Traffic backed up through town last weekend as the 45th annual Honey Bee Festival filled the Bishop Quinn Community Center grounds on Sept. 26 and 27, drawing thousands for crafts, food, live music, and a live bee-beard demonstration while raising money for Palo Cedro Community Park. The two-day event, held at 21893 Old 44 Drive just north of Highway 44, opened both mornings with a pancake breakfast and an opening ceremony. The schedule also included the NorCal A
Kari Chilson
Oct 12 min read
$70 Million Cancer Center Is Open
The doctors it was built for are not all here yet. The building is open. The roster is not. Dignity Health’s new Sierra Pacific Regional Cancer Center in Redding began seeing patients at the end of August, but Mercy’s own leaders say the $70 million campus is still short of the oncologists it was built for — and the help-wanted ads are still up, even with a five-year guarantee of $770,000 a year. REDDING — Dignity Health spent years, a riverfront site, and $70 million to put
Rex Ballard
Oct 15 min read
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