COVID-19
High anxiety
When coronavirus took hold in California over late winter and early spring, Adam Aaronson had a better sense than many Chicoans for how the pandemic would reshape lives. Aaronson, a marriage and family therapist in […]
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Community Essays
Back at the newsstands
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 […]
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Crisis schooling
Like many parents, Dan La Bar felt the impact of the coronavirus emergency profoundly in March when stay-at-home orders from Gov. Gavin Newsom changed how schools teach and students learn. La Bar works as an […]
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Day of reckoning
Michael Hanko leaned over the lectern in a Chico courtroom as if his legs would give out, mustering the strength to continue speaking about the sibling he lost in the Camp Fire. His was the […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: How’s shelter-in-place been for you?
Asked in downtown Chico. Rod Winkleconstruction managerConstruction is essential, so I’ve been working and then going home kind of like a normal day. I worked from home off and on for about a month, but […]
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Guilty pleas from PG&E
On Tuesday morning (June 16) at Butte County Superior Court, more than 19 months after the Camp Fire, PG&E pleaded guilty to causing the mega blaze as well as 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter linked […]
Camp Fire
Can PG&E limit outages?
While economists are trying to determine just how stark the new COVID-19 reality is for mom-and-pop businesses, a recent survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce suggests the situation hasn’t hit rock bottom: Forty-three percent of […]
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‘People’s town hall’
Following a week of passionate, near-nightly protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd that drew hundreds of people to downtown Chico, Tuesday (June 10) evening’s gathering at Chico City Plaza showed a […]
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Solvency and reform
As the Chico City Council quietly assembled within the chambers on Tuesday (June 9), protesters across the street in the City Plaza cried, “No justice, no peace! No racist police!” The panel gathered amid the […]
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Doctors urge caution as coronavirus complication strikes kids
At her pediatric office in Oroville, Dr. Maria Alice Alino meets little resistance when discussing measures to prevent coronavirus. Parents, teens and children get into that mindset when they walk in, because she enforces a […]
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Slideshow: Chico protests police violence
Protests have broken out all over the world in the wake of the killing of George Floyd on May 25, including in Chico, where every day since June 2, people have taken to the downtown […]
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‘No justice, no peace’
Hundreds of people gathered on the corner of Fourth and Main Streets in downtown Chico Tuesday evening (June 2) to protest racism and police brutality in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis […]
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First COVID-19 death in Butte County
On Monday (June 1), in addition to reporting that seven new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Butte County, Public Health announced the first local death attributed to the disease. “I’m very sad to announce that […]
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Safe for now
After decades of self-described “rough living,” including spending the last two years on the streets, Nathaniel Edwards is no stranger to hardship. But in mid-March, as fear of the coronavirus rose in the North State, […]
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Syringe issue gets stickier
Tensions over syringe access in Chico, a polarizing issue since the Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition began distributing and collecting needles in October, have boiled over this spring. As reported in the CN&R, an alliance […]