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More than 7 out of 10 think children will be worse off than their parents and favor spending on tax credits, child care and job training Californians want action on fading prospects
November 21, 2023 0
By Mark Kreidler This story is produced by the award-winning journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, and co-published here with permission. The bureaucratic inertia in Sacramento is often a byproduct of conflicting values or political chess—or, sometimes, legitimate questions over what residents of [...]
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Checking in on two Camp Fire families five years after the blaze To stay or to go?
November 2, 2023 0
When Shelley Price left for Chico for work at 7:20 a.m. on Nov. 8, she saw the smoke rising from the Feather River Canyon—on the side of Paradise where her parents lived. “I called them immediately,” she said. “There was [...]
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A Camp Fire essay The fire next time
November 2, 2023 1
Editor’s note: This essay was written by Kevin Jeys, a one-time CN&R editorial staffer and longtime infrequent contributor to the paper. After surviving the Camp Fire, Jeys stayed home. He’s been in Paradise for the five years since, tending to [...]
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Guest Comment: Stars of the Camp Fire
November 2, 2023 0
It’s been five years since the disastrous Camp Fire. Hard to believe, and hard to believe that it happened. The word “disaster” comes from the Latin for being out of alignment with the stars (dis = away from, astro = [...]
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Guest Comment: Gathering
November 2, 2023 0
If the 2018 Camp Fire taught one lesson it is this big one: Life is with people. If that seems too obvious, it isn’t. The U.S. Surgeon General tells us half the country now suffers from an epidemic of loneliness [...]
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Editor’s Note: Green Forest Lane
November 2, 2023 0
This old road, it’s a long, long lonely way/This old road is bound to get me some day/ But I know I’m goin’ home, and I know there ain’t no other way/But this old road—“This Old Road,” by Garr1son I [...]
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Grieving the state of local journalism on the Camp Fire’s fifth anniversary Second & Flume: Untold stories
November 2, 2023 0
When I think about the Camp Fire’s fifth anniversary, I think about the CN&R. For me, the two are inextricably intertwined. After the blaze, the paper’s small staff wrote week in and week out about the aftereffects. But we wanted [...]

Chico Housing Action Team celebrates 10 years of finding solutions for the community More than just a roof
November 2, 2023 0
Kerry Chancholo is grateful for his job, his sobriety, a safe place to call home and—most of all, he professes—people he can trust. While most people might take these things for granted, they were basic [...]
New spot is cooking, and baking, something fresh for the downtown scene. Burger surprise
November 1, 2023 0
There is an interesting phenomena known as “multiple discovery,” which describes how different peoples—though separated by oceans, continents and thousands of miles—tend to stumble upon the same, groundbreaking advancements independently of one another: things like [...]
Arts DEVO: Show people
November 1, 2023 0
She is a showgirl Over the past few years, Lola Yang has quietly become one of the busier artists in Chico. She’s had two solo exhibits of paintings on the walls of the Naked Lounge, [...]
CN&R film critic streams short films Bite-size cinema
November 1, 2023 0
With all due respect to major films with marathon running times—e.g. Oppenheimer (180 minutes), or Killers of the Flower Moon (206 minutes), quite a lot of recent viewing pleasure at the Stream & Dream Lounge [...]
Built to Spill touring with ‘most high-energy version of the band’ ever ‘As rocking as possible’
November 1, 2023 0
By David James Youngdavidjamesyoung.com This article was originally published by Scenestr magazine at scenestr.com.au. When Doug Martsch put together a new line-up of Built To Spill toward the end of 2019, he certainly couldn’t have [...]
Streetalk: Who’s your hero?
November 1, 2023 0
Asked in downtown Chico. Ryan Hartstudent Ooh, that’s hard. I’m going to say Guy Fieri, mostly because he’s a fun dude and he does a lot of charity work. Shirley McCoyKZFR office assistant I’d say, [...]
Letters to the Editor: Nov. 2, 2023
November 1, 2023 1
Food sovereignty is the answer Re: Letters to the Editor: “Food Insecurity U” (Oct. 5, 2023) In response to the letter by Wang Thao focusing on student food security, their sad story is only too [...]