Focusing on geographic boundaries, the Chico City Council has kept all 10 proposed maps—three from the city’s demographer, seven submitted by the public—in play for the next phase of the city’s redistricting process but directed […]
With California’s COVID-19 case rates falling and the state relaxing mandates, including most face-covering requirements, Butte County Public Health (BCPH) has announced changes to its pandemic policies and reporting. The county’s COVID-19 dashboard will now […]
Even before Russian forces invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the mainstream media set its 24/7 news cycle on covering the conflict. However, that cycle often focuses on only the biggest news stories shuffled on repeat, […]
It was a sight to behold: dozens of customers with their trucks and vans loading up all of the tools for making music—keyboards and large amplifiers, down to each drumstick and music-lesson book—to help their […]
Butte County is not in the green. As of last week, the color-coded system of determining COVID-19 risk from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has our county and most of those […]
Already bleeding from a gunshot wound, Tyler Rushing was shot by Scott Ruppel, a Chico police officer, who shot Tyler again as he was being held up by Butte County Sheriff’s Deputy Ian Dickerson and […]
Notes from my “stream-and-dream” ledger for the past month: When the home-made sex video of a schoolteacher (Katia Parscariu) gets exposed on the Internet, tabloid scandal and cultural controversy erupt. The scandal-mongering spills over into […]
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, the Chico City Council might want to stick to Zoom. Moments of discord, ranging from snide asides to outright hostility, punctuated the return to City Council Chambers Tuesday […]
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