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Chico summer checklist
Sure you’re going to Sycamore Pool and the Friday Night Concert. Those are easy. But will you stake out the hidden treasures of neighborhood markets and assorted pop-ups? Will you finally make it out to […]
Month: May 2023
News
High-speed construction
By Ben Christopher, Alastair Bland, Julie Cart and Alejandro Lazo (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to make it easier for […]
Arts & Culture
‘Journey of release’
As a young girl, Chelsea Smith was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, and as she got older, she found it increasingly painful trying to navigate a world that did not understand her. She suffered from coprolalia, […]
Opinions
Streetalk: What’s on your summer bucket list?
Asked at Naked Lounge Hailegna BurozBarista I intend on going to Europe. I’m going to go to Portugal. Valerie RoseASL instructor I want to stay inside and play Tears of the Kingdom. B. ComfortUnit host […]
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Editor’s note: To challenge
The spark for this month’s “Summer checklist” cover feature was a series of social media posts by Chicoan Sharon DeMeyer: “Inspired by a young woman who tried 365 new things last year to help manage […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: New oldies
When I was in high school and started seeing bell-bottoms in fashion magazines, I realized some of my mom’s old clothes were actually cool. I would’ve cringed had she actually worn them, but of course […]
Arts & Culture
Works of women and private eye tales
The Super 8 Years: With her son David Ernaux-Briot as co-director, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist Annie Ernaux has fashioned an unflinching, remarkably fresh filmed memoir out of her family’s home movies from 1972-1981, the […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Noisy, but fun
Of all the Chico bands Arts DEVO could be asked to help write a bio for, XDS is probably the one for which I’m most qualified to do so. I’ve been friends with the players […]
Opinions
Letters to the editor: June 1, 2023
Parking meter fiasco Dear City of Chico (City Manager Mark Sorensen, Chico City Council, et al.), We the undersigned business owners of Downtown Chico are writing in response to the new kiosk parking system installed […]
Arts & Culture
Hot dog summer
In the not-too-distant past, downtown Chico was a wiener wonderland. It used to be possible for us hot dog fiends, at reasonable and even unreasonable hours, to find a fix within a few block radius […]
News
Mangoes in Nor Cal?
This story was produced by CalMatters, an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. In a world of worsening heatwaves, flooding, drought, glacial melting, megafires and other calamities […]
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Homelessness, death and the future: A regional battle over bill to stop loopholes in eviction law
By Scott Thomas Anderson Tenants from around California converged on the State Office Building in Downtown Sacramento Wednesday to implore lawmakers to pass SB 567, also known as the Homelessness Prevention Act. The bill is […]
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When will housing costs come down?
By Ben Christopher (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. This month Californians worried about the cost of housing were offered the […]
News
Crash course in water
Jim Brobeck is a long-time Butte County water advocate, water policy analyst for AquAlliance, and the environmental community representative on the Stakeholders Advisory Committee for the Vina Groundwater Sustainability Agency. The mature urban forest of […]
Arts & Culture
Hot tomato
It’s May, and the initial tomato frenzy has died down. The nurseries have sold the bulk of their tomato starts, and most are likely in the ground, already showing several blossoms. Your tomato plants no […]