Alert reader K.S. points out that Andrew Pugno ("a super-smart kid") is a local boy who graduated from West Valley High in the early '90s. His 1996 wedding announcement in the R-S said he worked for Pete Knight, who sponsored...

That's what Andrew Pugno calls the anti-gay-marriage initiative on the ballot in November. Pugno is the lawyer for sponsors of the constitutional amendment, which would overturn Thursday's ruling. He tells the L.A. Times: "This decision draws a line in the...

My esteemed co-bloggers Marc Beauchamp and Dylan Darling note with pleasure that the governor's budget would spare a couple of state parks that an earlier proposal had threatened to close. I like parks. I live in Redding because it's so...

Gay marriage is by any measurement a fundamental change in one of our core social structures -- a redefinition of the word "marriage," really. Given that a majority of the people of California said just eight years ago that they...

"I started off as a far right-wing Goldwater supporter and I may leave this world a socialist. It is the god damnedest thing I've ever seen. This is hard, ... we don't want regulations, but perhaps we need them." From...

Wired's Brandon Keim is stumped: Why are less-educated Republicans more likely to agree with the global scientific community than their more-educated political counterparts, and vice versa among Democrats? Oddly enough, the majority of Republicans might not believe in global warming,...

Just in time for our burst of 100-degree weather, Lassen Volcanic National Park says it expects to have the road through the park fully plowed and open by Friday. I don't know where I'll be this weekend, but I'm pretty...

I'm not sure whether to blame the Schwarzenegger administration or the Chronicle writer, but this story really seems to twist the meaning of the English beyond recognition, starting with the first sentence. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will unveil a spending proposal...

Going to sleep last night, I was kept awake for awhile by the noise of progress over on the Highway 44 bridge -- and I live about eight blocks away on the far side of the Garden Tract. Much has...

The Redding planning commissioners, after OKing a modest (too modest, a few said) city plan to promote historic preservation, heard a brief pitch this afternoon about Shasta Forward, a yearlong planning party that is surveying county residents about what they...