By Loretta Lynch for CalMatters Fed up with decades of powerful railroads corrupting the state board that was supposed to regulate them, California voters created the modern Public Utilities Commission in 1911. Now, some 114 […]
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, […]
Butte County is blessed with bountiful fresh water within its boundaries. Big Chico Creek, Butte Creek, Feather River and the Sacramento River all support incredible and vibrant natural ecosystems. What is not as apparent is […]
Sometimes when I’m selling at the farmers market, people ask if our tomatoes are dry farmed. No, they aren’t. Dry farming is a method of growing crops so that they develop deep roots that can […]
Spring has sprung here in the valley. Each morning we walk the dog along neighborhood sidewalks that feature wildflowers, blossoming trees and brilliant birdsong. Clearly, if it’s so beautiful in town, it must be fabuloso […]
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 […]
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 […]
Republicans have stunningly retaken the Chico City Council, reversing a 5-2 liberal majority, with a 2-5 Trump-styled majority. Going forward, after the new census report, the new council will redraw the seven council districts to […]
“I hate it, too.” That was my message to one of my juniors back in April. Distance learning had been suddenly foisted upon us, and he was struggling with staying interested in it. I had […]
It seems like shortly after President Trump took office—or maybe it was before the Grand Wizard Cheeto took the throne or whatever it is we have now—that we entered this strange dimension where there are […]
By Ronald Angle A warm welcome back to the CN&R’s faithful print readers. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Free speech, exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where the […]
Chico is not Minneapolis. But neither city is Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. Minneapolis is now having its Day of Reckoning. Will […]
By Ron Angle The role of a newspaper columnist is to provide perspective to the news of the day. The role of a newspaper reporter is to report the basic facts and no more: the […]
By Ron Angle My father would always warn, “If you have nothing good to say, say nothing.” Unfortunately, his son eventually became a journalist, and as we all know journalists always have something to say. In […]
By Scott Huber The City Council’s recent vote to direct the Chico Police Department to discontinue the “eviction” of people experiencing homelessness from existing camps during the current public health emergency was a painful but […]
©2020 Chico News & Review
