Saying federal agencies aren’t doing enough to stop Mexican drug cartels from growing marijuana illegally on public lands, U.S. Rep. Wally Herger has drafted a resolution urging Congress to create a long-term solution to permanently dismantle the traffickers’ operations.

Jim Reed, the Democrat challenging Rep. Wally Herger in the November election, is challenging the congressman to a series of debates: Reed is calling for three debates during Congressional Recess: One on Saturday, August 14th at the Veterans Memorial in...

I wonder how much RoundupReady alfalfa is out there waiting to be planted. Apparently enough to get the attention of 75 members of Congress, including Rep. Wally Herger. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has received a letter signed by 75 Members...

Hey, you can watch Congressman Herger, introducing his resolution calling for a better strategy to fight backwoods marijuana growing, on WallyVision. Interesting that he says federal agencies need to cooperate and coordinate their efforts. Are they not, at this point?...

It won’t make a noticeable dent in the trillion-dollar federal deficit or improve the mood of off-roaders who feel new policies are shutting them out of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, but a bill sponsored by Rep. Wally Herger that last week landed on President Obama’s desk is a small step forward for eff

Jim Reed's campaign fires what appears to be its first shot across Rep. Wally Herger's bow: Jim Reed: Wally Herger Either Misunderstands or is Deliberately Distorting Financial Reform Legislation. Redding, California, July 15, 2010 - Banking bailouts have infuriated Democrats...

Hey, this won't make a noticeable dent in the trillion-dollar deficit, but Rep. Wally Herger alerts the world that his HR 689 has passed both houses of Congress -- and will bring new efficiencies to one small corner of the...

Wally's getting some far-flung ink for his ambitious proposal to scrap President Obama's health care law. This McClatchy News dispatch was reprinted on the Miami Herald's web site. Excerpt: WASHINGTON - Rep. Wally Herger wants to junk the new federal...

Rep. Wally Herger's critics from the right -- the folks who backed Pete Stiglich in this year's primary -- said the congressman had just spent too long in Washington and become part of the system. No kidding. Check out this...

Rep. Wally Herger's critics from the right -- the folks who backed Pete Stiglich in this year's primary -- said the congressman had just spent too long in Washington and become part of the system. In brief, he'd changed. No...

For those of you who haven't been following the ongoing debate about the health-care bill, our very own Rep. Wally Herger has been pursuing an effort to repeal it and replace it with a much more modest Republican bill. This...

Excerpts from a story on the Mormon Times web site headlined "More LDS politicians win primaries, face challengers:" At least four more Mormons have cleared primaries for statewide or U.S. congressional offices while an Idaho congressional candidate leads in polls...

Jim Reed, the Democrat who is running for Congress against Rep. Wally Herger (and whom Shasta County residents might remember from his two recent attempts to run for judge), launched his general-election campaign yesterday with a press conference in downtown...

Rep. Wally Herger, R-Chico, was leading challenger Col. Pete Stiglich in early returns Tuesday night in the Republican primary for the 2nd District Congressional seat.

The early returns of mail votes are by no means official, but it's striking to see how well "Col. Pete" Stiglich -- with no money and no organization to speak of -- did against Herger, at least in Shasta County....

A columnist in the Heartland is asking Herger and the GOP to stop bellyaching about a glossy Medicare brochure being mailed by the Obama administration to millions of seniors. Opines Jonathan Riskind: Let's flash back to 2004, shortly after the...

But apparently Rep. Wally Herger is the chairman of it. He shares a byline with tax fighter Grover Norquist in Investors' Business Daily: As the chairman of the House "Anti-VAT Caucus" and president of a taxpayer group, respectively, we are...

Sean Jacobs, son of Robert and Jacquelyn Jacobs of Redding, graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. on May 22, 2010. He was personally congratulated by President Barack Obama upon receiving his diploma and commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Sean graduated from Foothill High S

That's the Woodland Daily Democrat, saying Rep. Wally Herger's time has passed: In the 2nd Congressional District, we support Stiglich, 56, a resident of Cottonwood, who is a retired colonel of the U.S. Air Force, serving from 1980 to 2006....

I'm not sure I follow Rep. Wally Herger's line of thinking here, as reported by the Valley Post: Declaring himself to be too much of an old-school Republican loyalist, Herger said he is campaigning strictly on his own record and...

In the race for state Senate, Doug LaMalfa picked up a rare endorsement Monday from U.S. Rep. Wally Herger.

I don't have the database of GOP politics to know just how rare this is, but it's interesting: Chico, CA -- United States Congressman Wally Herger has issued a rare primary endorsement in the local campaign for State Senate, endorsing...

Wildfire protection plans under the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Pilot Project will continue to be updated and monitored despite the collapse of the project’s joint powers agreement.

Strong letterfrom northeastern California's representatives to the undersecretary of agriculture who oversees the Forest Service about OHV use on Forest Service roads. It's really hard to argue with this bit: While the Region continues to defend this policy by invoking...

Rep. Wally Herger tars the Democratic majority in the House for neglecting to fix a glitch in Medicare payments that would drastically cut fees to doctors -- and leave many to simply stop taking Medicare payments. Now, first of all,...

Congressional candidate Pete Stiglich's latest campaign newsletter quotes an R-S story from August and finds fault with the incumbent, Rep. Wally Herger: Asked about Sarah Palin's controversial remarks that Obama's health plan is "evil" and will lead to government "death...

Tim Haley, who had a letter published in Monday's paper knocking Wally Herger for being unresponsive about a question, follows up with an apology this morning: I just wrote and sent an apology to my Congressman, Wally Herger. I need...

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

Regarding your Saturday editorial "Herger a liberal?": Considering your editorial from March 21, 2009, about Herger's votes on TARP and the 90 percent CEO tax, this commentary is interesting.

In response to Saturday's editorial, a letter writer reminds us of a piece we published this time last year about Herger's support for the "confiscatory" tax on "bailout bonuses." Here are the first two paragraphs: It's not oversimplifying much to...

Memo to Rep. Wally Herger's political opponents: If you think you've caught him casting a liberal vote, it's probably a mistake.

"Col. Pete" Stiglich, the Republican who's running a longshot primary campaign against Rep. Wally Herger, is gamely trying to run to the right of the congressman. That's what every candidate does in Republican primaries these days, but it's kind of...

Thanks no doubt to the Democratic Party, my in-box in deluged with letters this morning variously praising and knocking Northern California's members of Congress for their votes on health care reform. Wally Herger and Tom McClintock take the predictable lumps....

Our congressman, looking a little peaked in this video, says the Republicans have just begun to fight....

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

Rep. Wally Herger says the Democrats' health plan "would, for the first time, force taxpayers to subsidize health plans that cover abortion." Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post writes that there is little difference between House and Senate versions and...

Let's talk weather first, since that's a common question we get as real estate agents: Climate Winter (October-April) provides the most precipitation of any season in Redding-the weather tends to be either rainy or foggy and snow does occur at times. Summers are hot and dry, but rain is possible, usually a

Wally Herger's pretty ticked about the Interior Department even thinking about new national monuments, to judge by a piece in the Colusa Sun-Herald. (Colusa Count includes some of the land where and Interior Department suggested a new national monument might...

Last Saturday's editorial criticized me for offering "simplistic, knee-jerk opposition to all things stimulus - a position that shifts depending on who's in the White House."

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

MONEY TALKS: His staff wrote the letters requesting stimulus money for Shasta Crystals in Anderson. His hands are clean. Herger can still claim that he was against the stimulus plan before he was against it.

Republican politicians, including the north state's Rep. Wally Herger, have staked immense political energy on attacking last year's federal stimulus program, one of President Barack Obama's signature early initiatives. When they turn around and help constituents bring home a share of it, the hypocrisy is too palpable to ig

At least, he doesn't want the Obama administration to follow Bill Clinton's lead and designate national monuments without Congress' say-so. He's introduce a bill that would bar the practice. No text yet, but the title says it all: Title: To...

Last month, Republican congressional candidate Pete Stiglich had touted his grassroots support from the Shasta chapter of the California Republican Assembly, which voted to back him over Rep. Wally Herger, as a January editorial noted. Alas, the CRA's district endorsement...

Jim Reed, a Democratic challenger running against longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Wally Herger, has sent out 2,500 mailers that when opened, play audio recordings of Herger lauding a man who called himself “proud right-wing terrorist.”

The congressman voted for the Troubled Asset Relief Program back in 2008, much to the dismay of many constituents, but now he and some other Republicans say it's time to wrap up the bank bailout. With Democrats poised to vote...

The recent upset election in Massachusetts has Republicans giddy at the prospect that 2010 will see an anti-establishment wave sweep incumbents out of office. And with the GOP a struggling political minority in both Washington and Sacramento, they've got the most to gain.

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...