A remembrance of what I learned about life by just listening By Ken Magri One winter day in 2011, I walked up to my 98-year-old Uncle Ernie’s apartment door in Carmichael and knocked. “Hey, Ernie, […]
By Samin vafaee From “CSI” to murder podcasts, stories of true crime are on the rise in popularity. But before these cases turn into Netflix documentaries, an immense amount of forensic work goes into identifying […]
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By Scott Thomas Anderson You can glean a lot from a culture by how it remembers its dead. In our corner of California, most ghost stories involve unlucky prospectors, victims of frontier justice and thousands […]
By Ken Magri “I am not a politician,” says Aaron Draper, taking his first dive into electoral politics by challenging Assemblymember James Gallagher. He knows he has a mighty uphill climb ahead of him. Trying […]
By Ken Magri By the middle of October Californians start feeling the agony of frequent mailers and political advertisements for ballot propositions. But even the sharpest voter can get confused by the way these voter […]
By Ken Magri In a race for two Chico city council seats, a controversy has erupted over recent negative campaign mailers addressing the issue of homelessness. Two of the challengers are crying foul about the […]
Former Poet Laureate of California Dana Gioia recently released his new collection ‘Meet Me at the Lighthouse.‘ By Scott Thomas Anderson To descend into the underworld of California’s literary past, the only Virgil for guiding […]
On the heels of Chico river clean-up, group holds its Climate Action Day on Saturday By Odin Rasco Soaking in the final rays of the summer sun (or, at least, the last official day of […]
By Helen Harlan Electra Oxley is a 17-old senior at Las Plumas High School in Oroville who wants to work as a turbine technician on windmills. Oxley is taking Jannie Ford’s advanced Ag welding class […]
To achieve consistent pay and benefits, IHSS workers seek to negotiate directly with the state instead of with 58 individual counties. By Cerise Castle, Capital & Main This story is produced by the award-winning journalism […]
By Ken Magri This place is serious about coffee, very serious. But there is more to Stoble Coffee Roasters than a great cup of Joe. Something about this business at 418 Broadway just seems to […]
By Ken Magri Chico City Councilman Addison Winslow sits on the roof of Stoble Coffee Roasters, casually dressed while hanging onto a latte, a positive mood and a head full of facts. As the lone […]
The bill would have made it easier to file heat-related workers’ compensation. A Capital & Main investigation found field safety inspections fell 30% in seven years. By Robert J. Lopez, Capital & Main This story […]
By Bob Grimm With Joker (2019), director Todd Phillips gave us a very popular movie that was a rip-off of Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy. Not an homage … a rip-off. The results were big box office, massive critical acclaim […]
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