Longtime Redding conservative local political activist Gary Cadd announced he’ll make a second bid this fall for one of three open City Council seats.

Media Blackout of Supreme Court “Battle” MRC Analysis: ABC, CBS and NBC Virtually Ignore Kagan Controversies; No Soundbites from Conservative Groups By: Rich Noyes | View PDF Version June 24, 2010 09:46 ET When President Obama picked Elena Kagan to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, the broadc

That's what Los Angeles journalist Jill Stewart sees developing after the primaries: California is about to see what happens when a not particularly rock-ribbed conservative Republican meets a not very hardcore liberal Democrat....

... aren't conservatives like the eloquent Katy Grimes taking things a bit far when they complain about the "nanny state" invading the public schools? I mean, perhaps the pending gatorade ban in schools goes a bit far -- but...

His crack yesterday about George W. Bush ("It's great to have a president who knows what a library is") was both classless and clueless. Now I'm no fan of Dubya, a phony conservative who put the country on the road...

Rick Keene and Doug LaMalfa bill themselves as being more fiscally conservative than the other, but there’s very little difference in how they handled taxpayers’ money while in office.

Interesting read from LA Weekly about the race for lieutenant governor, focusing naturally on hometown candidate Janice Hahn. Then I got to the bit describing the north state's champion: Maldonado now faces conservative antitax GOP firebrand state Sen. Sam Aanestad...

Apparently I'm out of touch. The first I heard of this important story is from a letter to the editor that just showed up: Again our wonderful Record Searchlight has let us down. Why hasn't the Record Searchlight printed the...

From the Huffington Post: Superior Court Judge James R. Gray - a conservative judge from conservative Orange County, a former staff judge advocate for the U.S. Navy, and a father of three; a man who does not condone marijuana use,...

That's what Jon Coupal, voice of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association, calls Meg Whitman, in an introduction to a release about a new ad. Really? All due to respect to Whitman, who seems like a very capable but person, but...

The lineup at next Monday's Redding Tea Party? Conservative favorite Senate candidate Chuck DeVore, an assemblyman from SoCal, along with the north state's own Jim Nielsen. Would that be the Nielsen who just announced his support for DeVore's rival Carly...

Good piece in the Bee this morning about the Republican primary for lieutenant governor between the north state's own Sen. Sam Aanestad and Sen. Abel Maldonado. Will the true-blue (or is that true-red?) conservative Aanestad take the prize? Or the...

Sen. Sam Aanestad diagnoses the real problem in Sacramento: The problem in our elected assemblies today is not the person of good will, be they conservative, or liberal, Republican or Democrat, who passionately argues for their principles in free and...

Boy, did you miss the point in your editorial of March 27, "Herger a liberal? Only in the GOP primary season." Nowhere have I ever said Herger is a liberal. In fact, far from it. What I've said is that he has clearly strayed away from his conservative values a time or two and hasn't provided the strong conservative leadersh

My hope is that some right-leaning independents will read this and begin to question their beliefs and political leaning. I know that none of this matters to hard core conservatives, who are perfectly content to believe that

That union address was that sucker l-o-n-g. If I were to dissect every bit of deceptive rhetoric in it, this column would be even longer. That’s not going to happen. But there was one section that I found particularly outrageous. Before I get to it, however, I want to mention the folks who were sitting behind our Dis

Political races are heating up across our country and citizens are finding a renewed interest in their elected officials. To give the public an opportunity to meet and evaluate our candidates, the Bostonian Tea Party will host a series of debates during the months of April and May featuring conservative candidates in local

I’m hearing from more and more people that last night was a truly great night for conservatives in Utah as Bob Bennett’s supporters were largely denied delegate spots to the State Convention. Across Utah, in most major areas, Bob Bennett’s supporters were shut out. In Provo, Bennett was able to come in first, but bare

Today, tomorrow and Sunday should be the final days of the push for health care reform in the US House of Representative, and know it or not you want to support H.R. 4872, the Reconciliation Act of 2010. Unless you are a hard-core conservative (more interested in handing a defeat to President Obama than in saving the liv

Members of the Shasta Cascade Progressive Democrats were outnumbered at their own Redding rally Wednesday by members of the conservative Redding Tea Party Patriots.

Members of the Shasta Cascade Progressive Democrats were vastly outnumbered at their own Redding rally today by members of the conservative Redding Tea Party Patriots.

Dear reader, As a liberal/progressive, I am deeply disappointed in the Health Care Reform Legislation currently in front of the US House of Representatives—but I still strongly support the bill. As much as I wish the reform legislation had not been watered down in an attempt to garner conservative support, I

Could it possibly be that a common-sense solution to California's burgeoning pension problem is simply illegal?

The search for an effective weapon against armies of destructive bark beetles chewing through forests across the West has taken an unusual turn through rock music and into, of all places, the voice box of conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.

In a very crowded room full of mostly business, government and Tea Party types seeing the talk by conservative pundit Steve Greenhut this morning, local union leaders Steve Allen and Chris Darker sat quietly in the back -- too quietly...

For half a decade, conservative Rep. Wally Herger and liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer have been haggling - along with Shasta and Tehama counties, tourism promoters, property developers, environmentalists and neighboring landowners - over just how to manage the Sacramento River Bend, an 18,000-acre patch of public land north of R

So says Joe Matthews about the two Republican candidates for governor, who are both spending millions trying to persuade the voters of their conservative bona-fides. Right now, Meg Whitman is spending millions to convince Republican primary voters that she's the...

Conservative crime-fighting SoCal Sen. George Runner has a new bill: @ SEX OFFENDERS: RUNNER LEGISLATION WILL REMOVE YOU FROM SOCIAL WEBSITES SACRAMENTO - Sen. George Runner (R-Antelope Valley) today introduced legislation that will stop convicted sexual predators on parole from...

By the standards of California, Redding City Councilwoman Mary Stegall is pretty middle-of-the-road. But in Redding, she's found herself a perpetually besieged liberal standard-bearer --- a prime target of conservatives who tried to unseat her in 2004 and '06, and...

Here’s a Freddie Mac asset out in Cottonwood out off Bowman Road. According to records, it’s on 1.23 acre. The last record of sale we could find was 2000,

For good or ill, one of the most dramatic changes in California's cities in the past year is the spread of storefront dispensaries selling medical marijuana, a trend that's made parts of conservative Redding feel like Amsterdam.

I promised myself I would not add to the publicity surrounding Sarah Palin. She spoke in Redding yesterday as part of the logging conference and she has brought out her faithful. Doni Greenberg wrote about the speech at ANewsCafe, and the comments following her story are mystifying. Palin supporters use w

For a year, the Democratic-led U.S. Congress has debated health care reform. And for a year, conservatives have denounced the plans as a socialist government takeover of American health care.

On Thursday, January 21st the five conservative jesters on the Supreme Court (the same five who decided that counting votes is irrelevant to elections) ignored the courts usual reluctance to overturn several established precedents and voted to give corporations all of the free speech rights of individuals.

It goes without saying (so why am I saying it?) that no one on the right liked the content of President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union speech, and many on the left were less than impressed by what they considered a conservative turn in many of his proposals. Many liberal/progressive commentators (e.g. Rachel Maddo

I asked Wally Herger's office what he thought of the local CRA chapter's backing his opponent. A reply from the campaign: "Congressman Herger is honored to represent the people of the 2nd district and proud of the conservative record he...

Funny, I remember when conservatives disliked the Supreme Court. Now I have a letter complaining about how Obama talked disrespectfully to the justices....

The state of the union: we are all fucked. The American people are the fuckees and the conservative-oligarchs are the fuckors. Obama will doubtless put it somewhat better.

The Obama administration was embarrassed by a series of revelations about its most radical actions, assumptions, and associations in 2009. While Fox News and the conservatives on talk radio and the Internet broke and developed these stories, Americans following only the "mainstream" media would never have heard these report

The activist conservative majority on the Supreme Court overturned two precedents and, clinging to the intent of our founding fathers who loved corporations, affirmed that corporations have the same rights to freedom of speech as individuals. Can corporate marches on Washington demand corporate voting rights be far behind?

Best as I can tell, Rick Keene and Doug LaMalfa -- the two candidates facing off for the 4th District Senate nomination on the Republican side -- agree about just about all the issues. Makes debates tough, but they tried...

Thankfully, 2009 is in the history books! It was a trying year for many in the housing industry. Real estate offices closed, escrow companies pared their staffs to the bones, lenders struggled with ever-tightening underwriting rules and appraisers are valuing properties conservatively after being blamed for overvaluing

The ultra-liberal Brown is sounding like a fiscally conservative Chamber guy. From his column in yesterday's Chron: If we as a state want to make a New Year's resolution, I suggest taking a good look at the California we have...

U.S. Representative Parker Griffith switched parties on Tuesday and became a Republican, a move that underscored challenges his former Democratic colleagues face in next year's election. "I can no

Tim Pappas, mentioned in passing in today's editorial, e-mails wondering just what the "of all people" meant. Just to be clear, as I wrote a few weeks I was struck by the fact that the conservative tea-party had recruited a...

To hear some tell it, we've taken so many steps toward socialism in America that the Soviets, despite all appearances, are the ones who actually won the Cold War. For instance, here's Nolan Frizzelle, president of the conservative California Republican...

Probably the biggest blunder the Democrats made when introducing the legislation currently called Health Care Reform, was in labeling it “Health Care Reform.” Once single payer proposals (which would have had a broad and beneficial impact on health care) were abandoned at the start of the process, this packag

Not entirely surprising, but Sam Aanestad's office sends out an e-mail boasting that Capitol Weekly has named him the state Senate's "top conservative." (Actually, though, he tied with George Runner.) I'm proud of the acknowledgements that I've stood up and...

Yep, it's that time of year, when we get an earful from talking-heads like Bill O'Reilly, who remind us of the annual threat. Here's a piece from Time's Amy Sullivan about a new battle being waged. An excerpt: A moveme

Three months after losing their weekday talk show on KQMS 1400, the husband-and-wife team of Carl and Linda Bott are primed to give Redding's iconic AM radio station a ratings run.