News
High Noon at The Triangle
Despite the fact that no new local shelter options have manifested, Chico Police and city staff mobilized en masse yesterday (Feb. 4) to once again break up one of the city’s homeless encampments, this time […]
Year: 2021
Opinions
Guest comment: Universal health care for California
California is primed to lead the way for the country by bringing universal health care to the Golden State. With 70 percent citizen support for Medicare for All (MFA); a governor who as mayor had […]
Opinions
Guest comment: ‘Imaginary conversations’
For all of my life, I’ve been what folks back home in Georgia called a “yellow dog Democrat.” That is, I would vote for a yellow dog so long as it was a Democrat. Now […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Live music tonight & big losses for the arts scene
Tonight, go Back to the Grotto Chico’s favorite sons are turning 30 this year. The Mother Hips, naturally, had wanted to celebrate in the way that they do best—with epic live shows throughout 2021—but those […]
News
Police shooting ‘justified’
Nearly three months to the day after Stephen Vest was shot dead outside of the Chico Petco store, Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey announced his decision that two Chico Police Department (CPD) officers were […]
News
‘Second chance’
Thursday and Friday mornings, like clockwork, Randy Cook heads to Five Mile Recreation Area in Bidwell Park to connect with fellow veterans. Cook served in the U.S. Marine Corps Special Forces during the Vietnam War, […]
Opinions
Guest comment: Public health and human rights
The recent eviction of homeless people from Lower Bidwell Park is not reflective of a compassionate community. What happened there amounts to an inhumane disregard of human rights. Let me be clear and address those […]
Opinions
Letters: Readers weigh in on LaMalfa and more
Constituents unload on LaMalfa Doug LaMalfa is not only not “one of us”, he has shamed all of us. His failure to support the democratic republic we live in, and his arrogant exposure of others […]
Food
Treats for trying times
As a child growing up in Southern California, Adrianna Wiley was always curious, especially in the kitchen. At a young age, she started learning from an aunt who transmitted a love for cooking and baking […]
Art
Exhibiting resilience
The Museum of Northern California Art is one of the main hubs for art in Butte County, and one of the traits that has made it so central is how committed its board and volunteers […]
Arts & Culture
Delivered by cinema
This past year of “streaming in place” provided at least some much-needed respite from the multiple miseries, large and small, of the times in which we find ourselves. There was, however, little that was “normal” […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: Sad and angry
One of my worst fears about the pandemic was realized six days before Christmas. That’s when I lost my beloved grandfather, Albert Baleme Jr., the patriarch of my mother’s family. He was my last living […]
Opinions
Profiles in cowardice
Congressman Doug LaMalfa has always been a dull, propaganda-spewing opportunist. He’s the same guy who has lined his own pockets with literally millions of dollars in farm welfare while simultaneously voting to cut food stamps […]
Opinions
The Christian civil war
There is a civil war in American Christianity: The Christian Right declaring Trump the Lord’s anointed versus progressive Christians denouncing him. Did Republicans buy the evangelicals or the evangelicals take over the Republican Party? Each […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: In memoriam
It’s been nearly a month since Arts DEVO has written this column. That’s the longest break I’ve taken from it since the debut in August of 2006. The bulk of the break was spent on […]