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July 2nd, 2009

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On today's editorial, reader Camperhead offers the following comment: You need to do your homework. The initiatives that created the transit funding account which was raided also created the revenue sources that are supposed to flow into that account. That's...
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A reader writes: There is a lot of government talk about a trillion dollars here and a trillion dollars there. Know how big a trillion is? If you saved a dollar a second it would take 31,709 YEARS to accumulate...
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Now it's for "wellness." Check out this ad in the paper today. Who says pot is illegal?...
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Now it's for "wellness." Check out this ad in the paper today. Who says pot is illegal?...
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Two of the largest banks in California will accept IOUs, the state announced today.
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No, it wasn't named for a run through the oak trees. It was named for the many black oak and white oak trees lining its bank. It was first known as the Dry Creek Mining Area. The first settlers were...
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OK, I don't like breathing smoke any more than the next north state resident, but fires like those extinguished last night sure lend weight to those who say we should let more natural fires burn. Three fires, estimated at one-tenth...
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lek Old timers will recall this building as it was for years the Top Rail Club. Back in the day, this club fought it out for customers with the more risque Lake Club just down the road, in the more rough and tumble times when rules and regulations in the Buckeye area were less inhi
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Got a firecracker of a weekend coming up, topped off by the annual Freedom Festival fireworks show in Redding on Saturday night. The fireworks were delayed three months last year because of fire danger and the thick smoke that choked the North State, but everything’s on schedule for this year. City offici
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1. Anderson Explodes! Friday at the Shasta District Fair grounds. Event includes auto racing, face painting, children's games, food booths, the 4-H Barbecue, live music, a raffle, and fireworks at 10 p.m. with a simulcast on Q97. No ice chests or coolers. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Call 365.8095. Visit www.AndersonCham
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MOUNTAIN GATE — Shasta County Sheriff’s detectives are looking today for witnesses of a Wednesday assault that has left a transient in critical condition.
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Alicia Mills works from photographs to create custom oil pastel portraits. She is able to take a client's favorite snapshot and turn it into something timeless. In addition to portraiture, Alicia is a muralist and is currently working on an underwater mural.
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The bars in Redding are starting to cover all the niches. There are places for live music, DJ music, neighborhood bars, dive bars, wine bars and a host of others. And sometimes choosing a place to spend the night comes down to the little things, like live music or serving popcorn and chips. It can be further broken down to
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Its restored 1916 “Pullman green” dining cars attract train fanatics from as far away as Europe and Australia, but you don’t need to be a railroad buff to love the Shasta Sunset Dinner Train. Whether you fancy nostalgia or a bit of romance, the dinner train can be just the ticket for that special birthday, anniversary
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Shasta College instructor Robert Soffian enjoys stretching the envelope a bit and letting his students explore theater’s creative fringes, and he’s at it again with a stage populated with an enormous peach and oversized, talking insects.
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I find this music video a tad outside the gates of the super-ego kingdom....
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Two Redding men were arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession Wednesday evening after a traffic stop.
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Far northern Sacramento Valley weather will stay stuck in its groove of mild, nearly calm mornings and borderline hot, barely breezy afternoons. Over the mountains, thunderheads will swell by late morning and blossom through the afternoon, dumping isolated showers and generating dangerous lightning. Expec
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OneWord is a writing propmt that calls for brevity - and clarity. You get 60 seconds to write about the word given. The word? Ticket:She clutched the slick rectangle to her chest, like a terrified bride who presses a bouquet to hers. Hot tears leak from tired eyes, breaths come in hiccups. There’s no time. Not
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Phil: I know you’re not much of a baseball fan (heretic! commie pinko rat!) but my favorite dreadlocked right-handed hitter is working himself back into playing shape from a 50-game suspension f
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We must fight the cartelsWe the people of the USA have been invaded by the Mexican drug cartels. Our citizens cannot use public land for fear of armed pot growers. It's time that wimpy editors and our political airheads know we are not ready to give up our country. Let's help out our law enforcement, call in the National Gu
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In Sacramento, they can hear the chimes at midnight. State legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have been told by state Controller John Chiang that he will be compelled to pay the state's bills with IOUs starting today unless they come up with a way to close California's mammoth $24 billion deficit.
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If you thought the state Legislature's paralysis in the face of ever-increasing deficits was bad, just wait until the courts get involved.
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Today is Thursday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2009. There are 182 days left in the year.On this day in:1909
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As much as we love our pets, you'd never think we'd do anything to hurt them. Though it may not be intentional, most of the food choices we make for pets are far from what your pet would have eaten naturally.
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Anderson man died of natural causesA 77-year-old Anderson man who was found dead Monday afternoon died of undetermined natural causes, the Shasta County Coroner's Office said Wednesday.
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The arrest of a Redding man in late May on fraud and theft-related charges has opened the floodgates to a host of new criminal counts being filed against him.
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ANDERSON - Faced with a continued shortfall in state funding, the Anderson Union High School District is examining negotiating pay cuts with its nonteaching employees.
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<B>J</B>enelle Wroge was studying to be an engineer, but she felt a greater calling - golf. The 26-year-old is now a member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association and an assistant golf professional at Sevillano Links in Corning.
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Three Turtle Bay bald eaglets - who already have put up with banging and clanging from nearby construction for the first months of their lives - soon will have a front-branch seat for Redding's annual fireworks show.
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Lightning starts 7 north state firesLightning from thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon caused at least seven fires in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which firefighters, smoke jumpers and rappellers managed to contain.
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On the 10-year anniversary of one of the north state's most infamous hate crimes, Jason York says the homophobia that led to the killings of gay couple Gary Matson and Winfield Mowder is still alive and well.
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Independence Day closuresHere's a list of what's open and closed Friday and Saturday in observance of Independence Day, which is Saturday.
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WHISKEYTOWN NATIONAL RECREATIONAL AREA - A canopy of scrub oak and gray pine stretched overhead and cast welcome shade on most of the Sheep Camp Trail and the high-schoolers working on it.
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Middle infielders Shane Battles and Kurt Lee drove in a run apiece in the seventh inning to provide the difference in the Redding Colt .45s' 6-4 victory over the visiting Atwater Aviators at Tiger Field on Wednesday.
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The largest shareholder in a pair of proposed 600-mile-long high-voltage power lines withdrew from the project Wednesday.The Sacramento Municipal Utility District's decision to pull out puts the power lines' future in doubt - at least for the time being.
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The Chico Suns-Red American Legion baseball team wasted no time smacking around the Redding Sidewinders on Wednesday at the ninth annual Shasta Lake Bass Fourth of July Classic.
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Today looks like a near carbon copy of Wednesday, complete with triple-digit afternoon heat in the valley and a threat of isolated mountain thunderstorms. Temperatures today should top out around 102 degrees, still above normal for early July. Mountain storms could again produce brief heavy rain and dangerous lightning.
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Safety, bonding classes in ReddingThree safety and bonding training courses for contractors will take place July 13-14 at the <B>Shasta College Health Science and University Center</B> in downtown Redding.
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This bit from a Bee editorial advocating a vehicle license fee surcharge is genuinely surprising: If Republicans who signed a "no new taxes" pledge could not stomach a mandatory fee, make it a voluntary check-off every time motorists register a...
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July 1st, 2009

Lightning from thunderstorms this afternoon caused at least seven fires on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which firefighters, smokejumpers and rappellers managed to contain.
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I happen to know a fair number of engineers who work for CH2M Hill (is riding a mountain bike a job requirement?) and Clair Hill worked out of Redding -- my next-door neighbor used to work for him -- so...
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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the largest participant in a proposed 600-mile long high voltage power line, has said it intends to withdraw from the project.
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As a Californian, it's hard for me to mock other states' choice of politicians, but Sen. Al Franken? Really? Still, cartoonist Jack Ohman puts things in perspective with this panel....
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Bill Lockyer, the state treasurer, suggests in an L.A. Times interview that an outside mediator needs to come in to broker a deal on the state budget. The Times -- or maybe Lockyer, it's unclear -- suggests former Secretary of...
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My house was built in 1927 and has been painted an astonishing number of times, as I discovered when I painted it myself 12 years ago. I had to take the old paint off, and there were a lot of layers, varying colors, grey to white to brown to grey to white and who knows what inbetween. We're having it done this time by someo
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This recipe is a nice way to introduce Kathy Barker of Redding as an upcoming new blogger on anewscafe.com. On her blog, tea4kate, she writes about her love of tea, travel, photography, fa
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The brand new Alps Repertory Theatre makes its grand debut in Weaverville this Independence Day weekend. ART is presenting its first season in assoc
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If our Lady of Justice could produce a real smile, she would be smiling from ear to ear now. It's been confirmed that over $7,000 was made at her fundraiser in the old county jail. This means enough money was...
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From time to time there are complaints about the McConnell Foundation in Redding. Generally the complaints are from those who don't like how the Foundation spends its money. I've never understood how anyone can complain about how a private entity...
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At last report Redding native Jeff Gore was holding strong Tuesday in the World Series of Poker. Last night we learned via anewscafe.com blogger Darcie Gore that son Jeff was bumped from the game, but he’s still
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A hand grenade reported today lying beside a residential street in Shasta Lake turned out to be decades old, non-explosive and made for practice, a bomb specialist from the Shasta County Sheriff's Office said.
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A big rig with a brake fire pulled over into the right hand side of a north-bound lane on Interstate 5 just north of the Pit River Bridge, according to a California Highway Patrol report.
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A 77-year-old Anderson man who was found dead Monday afternoon died of unknown natural causes, according to the Shasta County Coroner's office.
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I am thankful for each day’s fresh perceptions. They mingle with my ever growing catalog of concepts. Still, for an impatient Aries, moving through time often feels like swimming through thick veggie stew. It’s a slow medium to navigate but warm and full of nutrients. I am absorbing good things. Witness the Mari
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CORNING -- A Eureka man told Tehama County Sheriffs deputies that someone broke into his 1996 Toyota pickup Tuesday afternoon and took nearly $500 worth of clothing, camera equipment and cigarettes.
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Anderson is named for Elias Anderson (see photo), its founding father. He was a rancher, a farmer, a hotelman, and the first postmaster in town. He arrived in 1856 and purchased the American Ranch. His ranch was located southeast...
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Next week's meeting about the TANC Transmission Project in Redding is expected to be so crowded the city booked the Cascade Theatre, but in the meantime the TANC people are making the rounds, and they apparently made a presenation to...
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This would be funny if it wasn't destroying California. Every time we reach this point in state budget discussions, the stories out of Sacramento report that the Democrats and Republicans "aren't even close yet" to an agreement? YET? Really? And just when do we think they might get cozy? If I wait another week, w
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(Important update: Regular readers will recall a post from June 22 titled RANCHETTE ON ACID. That one was apparently pulled from the original listing agent and given to Re/Max 5 Star. Same price. This was a hot property and got
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COTTONWOOD -- A 35-year-old man reported a 2002 Honda EX300 four-wheeler dirt bike and a go-kart stolen from a Bowman Road carport.
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What: Free Patio Boat Tours at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. When: July 18-19. Contact: Jim Milestone, park superintendent. Reservations (530-242-3462). Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, in partnership with Forever Resorts, offers free patio boat tours of Whiskeytown Lake as part
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Dear Lynne: I just picked up a bay tree in a pot at my farmers market. The leaves are beautiful and intensely fragrant — nothing like the dried ones I’ve purchased in the past. Can you give me an idea of what to do with them? — Oliver in Chicago Dear Oliver: Take a leaf, break it in half and inh
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TANC has proposed putting in a new high voltage line through Shasta County, and on east and south. If you live underneath, or nearby the proposed routes of the wires, you are probably very unhappy. For good reason. We are familiar with living near high tension powerlines in the Redding area. Although the actual final route
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Yes, it’s a little house on (the) Prairie, having previously been vacated, presumably by Laura Ingalls Wilder and family, who probably moved to Manhattan with book and TV royalties. Now just another unwanted bank asset, it can be your Little House on (the) Prairie for under $100K. A
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In many cases, no. Or so say federal authorities in a letter to the state, noting that strings attached to money from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund -- a major source of park money -- and in several...
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UPDATE Radar indicates light to moderate thunderstorms in the mountains around the far northern Sacramento Valley. An isolated heavy cell pounded far southern Modoc County. Authorities have reported at least one lightning strike on China Mountain in Siskiyou County. These storms will likely contin
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I wrote a blog about the “things my children won’t remember.” One of the products I mentioned was Bosco Chocolate syrup. To my great surprise there was a comment on the blog from Sc
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The words over at Three Word Wednesday at collapse, sweet and yearn.RitualIn the woods near my home, I discover a trail, a slit of brown in an otherwise overgrown green of spring grasses. I am compelled to follow it.At this time of day, the path is neither tacky with dewy mud or dusty with fine dust,
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When Jason and Jeramie stepped outside their home early Saturday morning, they had difficulty comprehending the messages scratched onto the car they’d recently had beautifully painted and detailed: Words like “fags” and “homos” and “bitches move” - had been etched 
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Troy Hawkins (with daughter Corina), Adam Mankoski and Kelly Brewer (in red) announce the new partnership between HawkMan Studios and Food for Thought: A News Cafe.   Dozens of artists and businesspeo
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Shasta County Citizens Against Racism (SCCAR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the elimination of racism, prejudice and social injustice through education, cultural exchanges, and public advocacy. Its early years often found SCCAR seeking application of hate crime law (CA Penal Code 422.6) to local cases
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WHO'S PAYING? With our state being $23 billion-plus short in the budget, where are they going to get the money to pay up to $4,000 for people to turn in their old higher-polution vehicles? I think some nuts are running the nuthouse.
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Against design of GodMonday's headline is one reason I no longer subscribe to the paper. Of all the things going on today in this world, the Record Searchlight sees fit to make its headline news on gay marches.
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Most political and media discussions of medical care have an air of unreality reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland. There is an abundance of catchphrases but remarkably few coherent arguments.
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Gay rights are the latest front in the culture wars, and there's no shortage of arguments on both sides of the political divide about same-sex marriage, gays in the military and what, if anything, schools should teach about homosexuality.
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<B>I</B>'ve got a secret. If you were to walk through my kitchen, nothing would seem out of the ordinary. My refrigerator is well stocked with food, as are my kitchen cabinets. It looks very much like I'd imagine your own kitchen looks.
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Today is Wednesday, July 1, the 182nd day of 2009. There are 183 days left in the year.On this day in:1909
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Dottie Arel's guest bedroom bed is covered with red, white and blue decorations. Her 7-year-old grandson, Rami, excitedly points to the garland, streamers and stars that will soon decorate her backyard.
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8 minor injuries reported in wreckWestbound Highway 299 through Whiskeytown National Recreation Area was temporarily closed Tuesday because of a traffic wreck that caused minor injuries.
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Charter adds new channels<B>Charter Communications</B> will introduce more than 20 new channels, high-speed Internet, and local and long-distance phone service to the Red Bluff area.
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A Redding man was sentenced Tuesday to more than 20 years in prison after he was convicted last month of raping a drugged and unconscious woman and later obsessively stalking her.
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No decision announced on Anderson fire chiefAnderson Fire Protection District board members have yet to publicly announce the disposition of the district's fire chief, Joe Piccinini, but they're keeping their attorney busy.
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The wettest June in nearly a quarter-century ended with a Saharan blast of heat.It was a veritable cafeteria of north state weather extremes.
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Fasten your seat belts. That's what Shasta County Superior Court Judge Bradley Boeckman told jurors Tuesday before attorneys launched into their opening statements in the trial of a federal probation officer accused of molesting three children.
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Casey Whittington has been reunited with his canoe.The man who said he found it in a runoff ditch near Lake Shasta returned it to 14-year-old Whittington and his mother on Saturday.
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Agencies in Shasta County so far have applied for more than $17 million in federal stimulus money, and several multi-million dollar projects already are under way.
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When Village Schoolhouse closed in January, it was a blow to downtown Redding and Market Square, the boutique center where the toy store had done business for two years.
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What is a registered warrant, or IOU?A registered warrant is a "promise to pay," or an IOU, issued by the state when there are not enough funds to pay all of its general fund obligations. Registered warrants bear interest and are redeemable by the state treasury only when the general fund has sufficient money. If
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State-issued IOUs could force suspension of some Shasta County services if they're around for more than just a few weeks.The IOUs, referred to by the state as registered warrants, will be issued starting at 10 a.m. Thursday to welfare recipients, county governments, low-income seniors and others who depend on or deliver sta
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Companies that support the state's firefighting efforts - providing such essentials as food, toilets and laundry - could be paid through IOUs this summer.
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Shasta County schools are not expecting to see state IOUs in the mail this summer. Education officials in the county and the state controller's office said Tuesday that education funding will continue despite the state's budget impasse.
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Hill Country Health and Wellness Center staff and patients — and residents  from Burney and the Intermountain area — traveled to the California State Capitol on Tuesday to protest health-care cuts to Medi-Cal benefits scheduled for today, July 1. Some 200 clinic professionals and patients gathered on
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The new bike racks being installed around town --- I like them. They just scream "Bicycles." That said, on a Wednesday night there can easily be a dozen bikes parked in front of Carnegie's. I dare say the rack is...
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North Star Craft Brewery Presents:Greensky BluegrassCatch Greensky Bluegrass at North Star Craft Brewerythis Wednesday evening the night before they playHigh Sierra Music Festival! Wednesday, July 1st, 20097:30
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Yaz just ran in clutching a mouse in his lips. I ran after him yelling "No! No! Take the mousie out! Mousie out! Mousie out!" And of course he set it down and the mousie ran like hell, first one way and then, surprisingly, across my foot. I shrieked and everyone - cat, mousie, me - ran sixteen different directions.
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Devon Kreyenhagen was unlucky to have thrown 8 2<0x2044>3 innings of one-run baseball Tuesday. Had he possessed just about an inch of luck, the Sonoma State product would have walked away from Tiger Field with a shutout under his belt.
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