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‘A madness has taken hold’ ahead of US midterms: local election officials fear for safety

In two rural California counties, voters are showing increasing hostility and aggression toward election workers

The Guardian - US · Oct 27, 2022

A California girl wanted to keep her baby goat alive. Her county fair killed it anyway

Last April, Jessica Long’s family bought a 4-month-old goat and took it to their Shasta County, California, home, where Long’s young daughter named it Cedar, feeding and caring for it and bonding with it as she “would have bonded with a puppy.”

Tribune News Service · Sep 7, 2022

Inside the remote California county where the far right took over: ‘Civility went out the window’

In Shasta county the pandemic intensified political divisions, and many officials quit or were pushed out amid bitter tensions

The Guardian - US · Jul 23, 2022