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California election officials cope with ballot glitches and vote count challenges as election draws to a close
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California election officials cope with ballot glitches and vote count challenges as election draws to a close

LA Times  

Volunteer Sheila Cooper waves a sign to voters walking in for early voting at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk building in Norwalk on Monday. “It’s kind of silly,” said Yolo County Registrar Jesse Salinas, commenting on efforts to convince some county boards to interfere with the acceptance of voting results. The advisory panel now seeks to audit the March …

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California property manager who bragged about voting for Trump six times is investigated for election fraud
1 month, 3 weeks ago

California property manager who bragged about voting for Trump six times is investigated for election fraud

Daily Mail  

A California property manager is under investigation after he claimed to vote for Donald Trump six times using ballots mailed to his tenants have had previously moved. A California man is under investigation after he claimed on a Reddit thread to vote for Donald Trump six times The property manager said he received four ballots mailed to tenants that hadn't …

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This red California county roiled by a far-right insurgency braces for more trouble as election nears
1 month, 3 weeks ago

This red California county roiled by a far-right insurgency braces for more trouble as election nears

LA Times  

Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, right, talks with Jason Miller, owner of Lucky Miller’s Deli and a Crye supporter, in Redding, Calif. Crye is one of the board members who voted to get rid of the county’s ballot-counting machines in favor of counting ballots by hand. Her challenger is a local business owner, Corkey Harmon, who said on …

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After deputies took her pet goat to be butchered, girl wins $300,000 from Shasta County
1 month, 3 weeks ago

After deputies took her pet goat to be butchered, girl wins $300,000 from Shasta County

LA Times  

Jessica Long filed a lawsuit against the Shasta County Fair District and county officials after deputies used a search warrant to confiscate Cedar, her daughter’s goat. Two years after the scandal erupted, Shasta County has agreed to pay $300,000 to the girl’s family to settle the legal dispute over the floppy-eared brown-and-white goat named Cedar. “But the $300,000 settlement with …

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NorCal parents arrested on suspicion of killing, burying their toddler in the wilderness
1 month, 3 weeks ago

NorCal parents arrested on suspicion of killing, burying their toddler in the wilderness

LA Times  

Two Redding parents were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of killing their 2-year-old and burying her body near the Whiskeytown Recreation Area, according to the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. Riley Royal, 28, and Amanda Royal, 24, were accused of murder with special allegations and of child abuse resulting in death, according to a news release from the Shasta County Sheriff’s Office. …

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‘We are in the third grade’: How election fights have torn a California community apart
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘We are in the third grade’: How election fights have torn a California community apart

Raw Story  

Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat’s free national newsletter here. “We are in the third grade,” whispered Joanna Francescut, Darling Allen’s deputy, who began to lead the department in her absence. “The thing with Patrick, I think,” said District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, who supports Jones …

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California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River restoration
6 months ago

California will help return tribal lands as part of the historic Klamath River restoration

LA Times  

More than a century has passed since members of the Shasta Indian Nation saw the last piece of their ancestral home — a landscape along the Klamath River where villages once stood — flooded by a massive hydroelectric project. The reappearance of the stolen land resurfaces a haunting chapter in the Shasta people’s history, said Sami Jo Difuntorum, the tribe’s …

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Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California history
6 months ago

Shasta Indian Nation to get homeland back in largest land return in California history

LA Times  

The Iron Gate Dam in Hornbrook, Calif., is among Klamath River dams being removed. Gavin Newsom has set in motion the largest land return in California history, declaring his support for the return of ancestral lands to the Shasta Indian Nation that were seized a century ago and submerged. Fish and Wildlife, along with the California Natural Resources Agency, will …

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In striking before-and-after photos, a parched Lake Shasta is transformed
7 months ago

In striking before-and-after photos, a parched Lake Shasta is transformed

LA Times  

Pit River Bridge, which spans Lake Shasta, and the adjacent marina are shown May 9. Lake Shasta, the state’s largest reservoir, is full again after reaching perilously low levels in the drought-stricken years from 2019 through 2022. On that day, the lake’s bathtub ring was gone, with water covering the supports on the Pit River Bridge as well as previously …

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Northern California man collapses and dies while hiking Mount Shasta
7 months ago

Northern California man collapses and dies while hiking Mount Shasta

LA Times  

Shasta, right, and its geologic sibling Shastina on the left. On May 17, David Lopez of Campbell collapsed while approaching Helen Lake — a broad, flat, snow-covered plateau with a view of the steep incline that begins just above it — with his climbing partner, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. Rescuers carried his body down the mountain to …

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California supervisor who tried to get rid of Shasta County vote-counting machines survives recall
8 months, 3 weeks ago

California supervisor who tried to get rid of Shasta County vote-counting machines survives recall

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A local official in a rural Northern California survived a recall attempt spurred in part by his effort to get rid of the county’s vote-counting machines following unfounded accusations of fraud amplified by former President Donald Trump. He and two other supervisors then voted to get rid of the county’s vote-counting machines, directing local officials to hand …

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Letters to the Editor: Why can’t a girl get answers from Shasta officials on her pet goat?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: Why can’t a girl get answers from Shasta officials on her pet goat?

LA Times  

To the editor: My heart went out to Jessica Long’s daughter, whose pet goat was slaughtered. To the editor: Of course Shasta District Fair officials don’t want anyone to know who killed Cedar, the pet goat. To the editor: Those Shasta fair officials really showed that girl who raised and loved her beautiful goat, Cedar, who’s boss didn’t they? And …

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A little girl’s family wants to know who slaughtered her pet goat. Shasta District Fair officials won’t say
9 months ago

A little girl’s family wants to know who slaughtered her pet goat. Shasta District Fair officials won’t say

LA Times  

Jessica Long’s daughter holds a photo of her goat Cedar last year in Redding before the family pet was seized by sheriff’s officials and taken to slaughter. Nearly two years after a 9-year-old sobbed and pleaded that her pet goat, Cedar, not be sold and slaughtered for meat, Shasta District Fair officials still refuse to answer the question: Who killed …

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One far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics?
9 months, 1 week ago

One far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics?

LA Times  

Shasta County voters have booted from office a key figure in the county’s hard-right shift, even as the fate of a second far-right crusader on the powerful Board of Supervisors still hangs in the balance. On the campaign trail, Long said, many voters shared his horror at what they heard coming out of supervisors’ meetings and felt “a desperation for …

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A California county ditched its vote counting machines. Now a supporter faces a recall election
9 months, 3 weeks ago

A California county ditched its vote counting machines. Now a supporter faces a recall election

Associated Press  

REDDING, Calif. — Voters in Northern California’s rural Shasta County have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while electing staunch conservatives to the local county board. Ann Brassfield, a retired border agent, said she has helped out in the county elections office before and “can’t really say that I saw anything illegal going on.” Now Brassfield, who said …

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Defying California law, Shasta County supervisors vote to allow concealed weapons in local government buildings
11 months ago

Defying California law, Shasta County supervisors vote to allow concealed weapons in local government buildings

LA Times  

Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones helps a customer at his family’s Redding gun store in 2021. In defiance of California law, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors this week voted to allow concealed weapons in local government buildings. The resolution, passed Tuesday in a 3-2 vote, seeks to defy Senate Bill 2, a new state gun law — currently tied …

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Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.
1 year ago

Who Gets the Water in California? Whoever Gets There First.

New York Times  

UNCHARTED WATERS Who Gets the Water in California? Redding SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento CALIFORNIA DELTA San Francisco Stockton CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego Redding SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento CALIFORNIA DELTA San Francisco Stockton CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego Redding SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento CALIFORNIA DELTA San Francisco Stockton CALIFORNIA Bakersfield Los Angeles San Diego SURFACE WATER CLAIMS Sacramento …

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Mom sued fair that tracked down daughter’s goat for slaughter. Now state agency is suing mom
1 year, 1 month ago

Mom sued fair that tracked down daughter’s goat for slaughter. Now state agency is suing mom

LA Times  

The Redding girl whose family is being sued by the state holds up a photo of Cedar, the goat at the center of the legal battle. The legal battle over a 9-year-old’s pet goat that was slaughtered after her family backed out of the Shasta District Fair continued this week after the California Department of Food and Agriculture counter-sued the …

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Despite fears, election day in Shasta County comes off with little conflict
1 year, 1 month ago

Despite fears, election day in Shasta County comes off with little conflict

LA Times  

Shasta County resident Teresa Romero shows her husband, Charles, how the number increased by one on a Dominion voting machine to indicate that his ballot was successfully scanned in November 2022. The registrar-recorder, Cathy Darling Allen, had vowed to follow state law and use voting machines, in opposition to people in this northern county who have been caught up in …

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Shasta County ditched its Dominion voting machines. Now, residents are braced for turmoil on Nov. 7
1 year, 1 month ago

Shasta County ditched its Dominion voting machines. Now, residents are braced for turmoil on Nov. 7

LA Times  

Shasta County’s longtime registrar-recorder, Cathy Darling Allen, shown in 2022, says she plans to follow state law and count votes by machine in a local election next week. In response, Patrick Jones, chair of the Board of Supervisors, said he favored such a count anyway, declaring in the local newspaper: “I believe does not affect Shasta County.” But the county’s …

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Shasta County appoints public health officer who fought COVID-19 vaccine mandates
1 year, 2 months ago

Shasta County appoints public health officer who fought COVID-19 vaccine mandates

LA Times  

Shasta County supervisors attend a meeting in 2022. The Shasta County Board of Supervisors has appointed an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccine mandates to be the county’s new public health officer. Dr. James Mu speaks to the Shasta County Board of Supervisors after his appointment as public health officer. I object to being terminated.” Donnell Ewert, the retired director of …

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‘Flying syringes’ and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board
1 year, 2 months ago

‘Flying syringes’ and conspiracies: The far-right battle for a mosquito control board

LA Times  

As soon as Jon Knight applied for a seat on the Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control District board, the conspiracy theories started flying. And he warned about “flying syringes that will mass vaccinate the population.” Knight was considered along with Donnell Ewert, a retired epidemiologist who once was the Northern California county’s public health director. The appointment of Knight to …

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The ‘Johnny Appleseed of election fraud’ wants to upend voting in America. Why he’s focused on California
1 year, 4 months ago

The ‘Johnny Appleseed of election fraud’ wants to upend voting in America. Why he’s focused on California

LA Times  

Douglas Frank grinned as a high-pitched whine filled the sanctuary of a small Hemet church. “And it’s getting louder, county by county, state by state around the country.” Frank’s demonstration followed a frenetic speech filled with baseless claims about suspicious voting trends and secret algorithms used to steal elections. Life on the road gave rise to a new nickname, Frank …

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The U.S. climate movement may be in trouble. Here’s why
1 year, 4 months ago

The U.S. climate movement may be in trouble. Here’s why

LA Times  

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a newsletter about climate change and the environment. Sure, last year’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act — which included $370 billion in clean energy and climate investments — was the first time Congress had taken major action on global warming. It’s a theory of progress that’s hotly contested by much of …

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