Community Essays
Guest comment
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 […]
Opinions
Opinions
Editorial: Stopping the surge together
Back in March, when the coronavirus halted life as Californians had known it, Chico turned eerily quiet. Streets and sidewalks were noticeably empty as residents largely stayed home, leaving only for essential jobs or to […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: Concerned about contracting Covid-19?
Asked June 17 in downtown Chico. Brittany WhiteparalegalI think if we see a spike in COVID, yes, but currently I’m not. To be honest, I haven’t worn a mask really at all except for in […]
Second & Flume
Catching up
It’s impossible to fit everything I’d like to say into this space after what has taken place during our more than three-month print hiatus. I’ll start with how much I’ve missed having this weekly conversation […]
Opinions
2020 and beyond
It is said that journalism is the first rough draft of history. And since we suspended our print edition after March 19, a lot of history has been made. The COVID-19 pandemic, the righteous anger […]
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 […]
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 […]
Community Essays
Day of reckoning on the way?
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 […]
Community Essays
Doomsday and CN&R’s Plan A
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 […]
Second & Flume
Body counts and rodeo clowns
Memorize these figures: 62,000 and 83,019. The first is the high-end estimate of U.S. deaths attributed to influenza during an entire annual flu season. The second is the number of Americans who have died of […]
Second & Flume
Helping the Fourth Estate
In many ways, March 27 feels like years ago. That’s the day I was forced to publish my column exclusively online, and life just hasn’t been the same. Since stopping the print presses nearly six […]
Second & Flume
Second & Flume
Thick cats, odd finds, and your new Schitty family
Have listicles ever been as popular as they have been over the past month? As of this Sunday (April 19), it’ll have been that long since the start of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s unprecedented stay-at-home order. […]
Second & Flume
Bittersweet
I may have been in the middle of feeling sorry for myself when former CN&R staff writer Ashiah Scharaga called to tell me the California News Publishers Association had revealed the results of its annual […]
Community Essays
COVID-19: A wake-up call
By Ron Angle It is clear now that global society will not be same for decades or more. The current pandemic has changed the way society interacts. For a generation at least, that change will […]