By Jeanne Kuang (for Cal Matters) CalMatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government. For more info, visit calmatters.org. Cities in the West can’t legally clear encampments unless they can […]
Journalist captures sound, fury and lasting symbiosis in ‘Gun Comedy’ By Scott Thomas Anderson Silver-shaded transitions from face to face. A camera’s eye that drifts behind turning wheelchairs and sliding bullet clips and heavy bootheels […]
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 […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson The first firefighter who tried to rush into the house that morning found himself struggling with the door. He could see a key sitting in its deadbolt, yet he could barely […]
By Dan Bacher Despite strong opposition from indigenous tribes, fishing groups and conservation organizations, Governor Gavin Newsom took action in early November to fast-track the Sites Reservoir project, utilizing “new tools” from the controversial infrastructure streamlining package to “build […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s been 16 months since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the federally protected right to an abortion. Has the public truly reconciled with it? A new article in The Society of Psychotherapy has […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson What’s the best nonfiction read you should dig into this fall? It’s not actually a book, but rather a massive civil complaint that was just filed by the attorney generals of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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