News Now is a co-production of KFUG Community Radio, Wild Rivers Outpost, & Redwood Voice. You can listen live to News Now live every other Wednesday at 5pm on 101.1 FM or kfugradio.org. On tonight’s stories, we’re bringing you through a wide array of topics, including:

• 00:00 – Start of Newscast

• 02:03 – The COVID-19 Update.

• 03:00 – Wildfire Updates, including an update on Highway 199.

• 06:42 – Tensions rising in DNUSD as staff feel leadership has not prepared them properly for introducing students back into campuses, to the point that the possibility of striking has been put on the table.

• 15:07 – 200 6th Graders have received chromebooks, but because of a shortage, the digital gap may not yet be filled.

• 20:19 – A Preview on Persephone’s recent report, “The Saga of the CalEndow Billboard – How We Got Here.”

• 22:38 – National forests are closed due to wildfires, despite hunting season being upon us.

• 23:52 – Solid Waste Authority and Recology are seeking a consultant to decide new garbage rates.

• 27:05 – One shot after roommate dispute in Klamath.

Listen for yourself right here!

In case you missed the story surrounding the vandalized California Endowment billboard for proclaiming that Black Lives Matter, you’re in luck, as your very own Redwood Voice Director Persephone Corvid Rose has created a report on the matter.

This report goes through all the gritty details of the timeline, because now that the events have transpired, it is interesting to see exactly how these things began. In this video, I explore Del Norte’s 1st District Supervisor Roger Gitlin (but nowhere near as much as I do in the recent Accountability Corner that was specifically about him) and his initial spouting of hate speech that has cumulated into a borderline obsession, alongside his festering denial of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its dangers. Exploring this, we talk about the cycle he perpetuates and how it plays into his vehement attitude towards the billboard set by the California Endowment, his hatred, his supporters, and how the accumulation of his own created tensions inspired someone to vandalize billboard. Then, the community response, the rally that took place to ensure that everyone knew Del Norte would not stand for such racist nonsense in our community.

All of that and more in this report! Basically: Here’s How We Got Here.