Given the high salaries of senior staff and elected officials, the tax-paying public is asking for increased action and better performance in meeting Board Objectives. A 40% chunk of the annual budget outlaid as payroll expense is unsustainable, especially in light of the impending downturn in state funding.

“Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has created and maintained an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination over Palestinians.”

On December 14, 2023, the Nevada County Board of Supervisors unanimously opined that Rise Gold does not have a vested right in the Idaho-Maryland Mine. Following one entire day of public comment as well as the two hours of discussion prior to the vote, each supervisor voted to deny Rise Gold’s Vested Rights Petition filed with the County on September 2, 2023, setting up a likely court battle.

Two members of Braver Angels visited Nevada County to participate in the event "Depolarizing Political Conversations"

Hundreds of people gathered in Auburn for Nativity and Noel, a Christmas event to start the season.

Melissa Hunt is a candidate for Assembly District 1.

Allan Winkler’s book provides a very broad perspective of World War II from the point of view of a multitude of social and economic groups. While giving a nod to the politics of the situation, Winkler successfully tells the mobilization story of America during World War II from the perspective of a multitude of social and economic groups providing a pleasant tapestry of the mobilization.

The tide is turning. Socialism always fails and the people have had enough.

When educated people respond to an act of savagery not with a defense of civilization, but with a defense of barbarism, it is an early warning system that society itself is breaking down.

Just saw Governor Newsom…

Yikes!

Barry Pruett interviewed Mike Bratton about the upcoming Michael Edward Bratton II Turkey Trot.

Now that the Legislature has prevented all counties from hand counting ballots with the passage of AB 969, let's have a look at who supported this law.

“The sick thrill of antisemitism has a price: the surrender of reason, and, with it, of conscience.” - David Mamet

The United States has become the world’s ATM.

The immediate change in the organization of labor from slave to free after the Civil War rippled through every facet of American economic, political, and social life from North to South and from East to West. It is this very scope and period of reorganization of American institutions about which Eric Foner writes in his book, Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18. Foner explores the period of Reconstruction from almost every angle and provides the reader with a fundamental understanding of the successes and failures of Reconstruction.

The final form of the revisions to the Articles, which resulted in an entirely new Constitution, was a surprise to the states and the populous of the nation. The reason that the new Constitution was a revelation is because the delegates made certain that their deliberations would remain secret.

Barry Pruett interviews Jennifer Singer about Bright Futures for Youth

On Thursday Night, candidates for Assembly District 1 (AD-01) and Senate District 1 (SD-01) gathered at the McLaughlin Auditorium in Redding, California for a candidate forum to discuss issues and policies relating to their candidacies.