Not the weightiest issue facing the city, but it looks like our vice mayor will get her wish - to move the annual "State of the City" luncheon from January 2011 (the first month of her term as mayor) to...

Excerpt of an op-ed at FlashPoint: As (Oakland) mayor, Brown oversaw a bloated Oakland bureaucracy in which more than 1,100 employees, were paid more than $100,000 a year. Even more startling: the number of people on the Oakland payroll earning...

Mayor Patrick Jones told me just now he "wouldn't be surprised" if the McConnell Foundation made an offer to buy the Convention Center and the Rodeo Grounds from the financially strapped city of Redding. "You know something's brewing...they have a...

Dozens of letters from fellow physicians, church members and community leaders — including his ex-wife, Redding Vice Mayor Missy McArthur, and Shasta County District Attorney-elect Steve Carlton — may have helped keep a former Redding doctor and businessman out of prison after he was charged with bilking the federal go

Dozens of letters from fellow physicians, church members, community leaders — including his ex-wife, Redding vice Mayor Missy McArthur, and Shasta County District Attorney-elect Steve Carlton — might have helped keep a former Redding doctor and businessman out of prison after he was charged with bilking the federal gov

The mayor of Shasta Lake City, Greg Watkins, and Councilwoman Delores Lucero addressed the membership of the Shasta Association of Realtors on June 30 to let us know of their vision for the future o

Despite their recent calls for a Shasta Lake City Council member’s ouster, the former mayor says she and her husband are not trying to launch a recall effort to remove Dolores Lucero.

DUNSMUIR A group trying to recall the mayor and vice mayor has gathered enough signatures to put the issue on the November ballot.

Patrick Jones rang me to say he's penning an opinion piece for the paper, to counter what he says is misinformation from public employee unions on pension matters. "People need to hear from the mayor," he said. Then, sounding a...

I can understand your beef about millions of tax dollars being used to build the Sundial Bridge (and its ongoing $100K-plus annual maintenance costs, borne by the City of Redding) but aren't you at least a bit moved by the...

On the radio this morning Redding Mayor Patrick Jones embraced the idea of term limits for city council members (two terms and out, "eight years is plenty"), continued to diss the Sundial Bridge ("it was all right," he said of...

From: Starman, Kurt [mailto:kstarman@ci.redding.ca.us] Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:51 AM To: patrickhenry; Victoria McArthur; dickerson; Mary Stegall; Rick Bosetti Cc: Revheim, Kari; Tippin, Barry; Hansen, Peter Subject: CONFIDENTIAL UPDATE Honorable Mayor and Council Members: We plan to postpone the...

Redding Mayor Patrick Jones this evening will walk across the Sundial Bridge for the first time ever as part of a Northern California Veterans Museum and Heritage Center fundraiser.

Dear Mayor Jones, The Redding Planning Commission members seriously overreached their role and also breached the General Plan in approving Sierra Pacific Industries’ massive, 440-home Salt Creek Heights subdivision as currently proposed. Ignoring greenway policies in place since the 1970s was…

Ran into Hizzoner this morning at KCNR. Thought he was in the studio to respond to Leonard Moty's piece in the paper this morning. Nope, he hadn't seen it. Instead, he was there to promote his Flag Day walk across...

Earlier this year, Redding Mayor Patrick Jones moved the release of the City Council's meeting agendas from Friday afternoon to Thursday afternoon -- a small but worthy change the gives both the affected public and the councilors themselves more time...

Dunsmuir — The planning commission Wednesday night unanimously rejected a proposal by the city’s mayor to build three marijuana greenhouses in the downtown historical district.

Dunsmuir’s planning commission Wednesday night unanimously rejected a proposal by the city’s mayor to build three marijuana greenhouses in the downtown historic district.

I don't imagine Redding Mayor Patrick Jones and Oakland City Council President Ignacio de la Fuente have much in common politically, but when it comes to police pensions, they're singing the same song all over the state. Here's de la...

From the Victorville paper: HESPERIA • Barely two months after former Hesperia mayor Jim Lindley was fired by San Bernardino County, Lindley has accepted the city manager job over a small town in Northern California. Last week the City Council...

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Kent Dagg dissing our former mayor in his weekly "Executive View" column on the Shasta Builders' Exchange web site: It's hard for me to pass on a meal, and it shows, but at least I'm honest about it. I know...

The Mt. Shasta News reports here. Excerpt: "(Vice Mayor) Mario (Rubino) is volatile, he speaks out of context, and he is not a good representative of the people," Mitchell stated. Hmmm. How many Redding city councilmembers over the years were...

Our local landmark makes Popular Mechanics magazine's list of the world's "strangest" bridges. Here's the link. Even our anti-Sundial mayor might agree with that. More on Patrick Jones and his aversion to Calatrava's span in my column tomorrow....

If you follow Redding Mayor Patrick Jones’ arguments to their logical conclusion, you come to this: Beauty is a waste of time and money. Only function matters.

I gather Mayor Patrick Jones got chewed out around City Hall for mentioning, in a conversation with me back in the winter, that the city's budget crunch could lead to consolidation of city departments and the closure of a fire...

That's what Redding resident Jenny Abbe Moyer said of Mayor Patrick Jones' declaration that he never has and never will set foot on the Sundial Bridge. She spoke at Tuesday night's council meeting (scroll to 1:30) in favor Turtle Bay's...

Phil Fountain is a cartoonist, writer and occasional bed-wetter based in the far reaches of Northern Californey. This week, he was inspired to dig out his crayons at the

An update to an earlier blog here....

It was a beautiful evening for a protest. Mayor Patrick Henry Jones crossing the Sacramento River, patriots on the bridge, candidate Russell Hunt trolling for votes, etc....

Redding's mayor, Pat Jones, has nominated Bert Meyer for a new term on the Planning Commission. It's a fine choice, as far as I'm concerned. Meyer's a famously detail-oriented guy -- in a job where the details count -- and...

(He's scheduled to embark, in Revolutionary War regalia, at 5 p.m. near the Sundial Bridge as part of the Tea Party protest.) I thought it was to recreate the patriotic motif of George Washington crossing the Delaware. Nope. For Jones,...

Its former mayor, businessman/investor Dick Riordan, thinks so. But would even that help? From an LA Times opinion piece: In a conversation with The Times over the weekend, Riordan argued that bankruptcy may be the only way to attack the...

High-powered classic hot rods will rumble around Redding’s hotel row Friday evening with the blessing of police and many east side merchants.

Unfortunately, a prior commitment kept me from going to see gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner talk. Apparently Pat Jones was impressed, though. Poizner's campaign e-mails: Steve Poizner for Governor announced today an endorsement from Patrick Jones, Mayor of Redding. The endorsement...

Dunsmuir’s mayor and a medicinal marijuana collective owner want to plant a marijuana garden smack-dab in the middle of the city’s historical business district.

Kent Dagg, in looking back on the long-ago origin of Stillwater Business Park, includes some wise words from a former Redding city councilor: The Mayor at that time, Bob Anderson, reluctantly agreed but wisely warned Pat with these now famous...

Craig Kraffert, owner of Cascade Square at Placer and California, said no one at city hall informed or consulted with him. He e-mails a message he sent to the mayor, city council and city officials: April 6, 2010 RE: Opposition...

Redding Mayor Patrick Jones on Tuesday afternoon got state Fair Political Practices Commission clearance to vote on an interchange project for which he had lobbied on a developer’s dime, but promptly reimbursed the sum.

There was some speculation on Scott Mobley's story the other day that Redding City Manager Kurt Starman and/or City Attorney Rick Duvernay knew in advance that Levenson Development was paying for Mayor Patrick Jones' trip to Washington, but didn't say...

Redding Mayor Patrick Jones this afternoon got state Fair Political Practices Commission clearance to vote on an interchange project for which he had lobbied on a developer's dime, but promptly reimbursed the sum.

Agree with his votes or not, Redding Mayor Patrick Jones is as honest as politicians come. But it turns out a sense of integrity can be so large that it leaves a blind spot. Jones still can’t see why anyone would have a problem with his taking a developer-funded trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby, as mayor, for improveme

Mayor Patrick Jones goes to D.C. to lobby for Oasis Road's big box store developer... For background on this cartoon, read the City Council meeting's agenda item on the mayor's "potential violation of Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) regulations relative to no gifts."

That would be controversial West Linn Mayor Patti Galle. The Oregonian reports here. Looks like a degree mill to me. A bachelors degree for $395? A Ph.D for $475? From the web site it's hard to tell who's behind it...

Redding Mayor Patrick Jones believes he's rubbed out the stain of a developer-funded trip to Washington, D.C., to lobby for an interchange.

Some local officials in California are pushing back against their GOP representatives in Congress for their anti-earmark pledge. From the Bee: When Elk Grove Mayor Sophia Scherman got wind of the vote by the GOP caucus, she canceled the city's...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom says there are 441,541 parking spaces in the city, which sounds like a lot, but none of them will ever be anywhere near the restaurant you're trying to visit or the deYoung Museum. But the...

"Unfortunately, I made a mistake," Jones said this morning on KCNR1460. "I wanted the public to know that I corrected that mistake," reimbursing developer Don Levenson $2,805. "It didn't cost taxpayers any money - just one taxpayer, me." The recent...