After six months of fencing off Chico City Plaza, most of this time to include the barricading of sidewalks, restrooms and the only water fountain within a mile, the fence came down on April 22. […]
This commentary is part of the Chico News & Review’s 2022 Arts & Music special issue. To live in a community like Butte County that blossoms with the creativity of many artistic souls as it […]
Already bleeding from a gunshot wound, Tyler Rushing was shot by Scott Ruppel, a Chico police officer, who shot Tyler again as he was being held up by Butte County Sheriff’s Deputy Ian Dickerson and […]
I support the recall of Mayor Andrew Coolidge and Councilman Sean Morgan. Here’s why: On April 23, 2021, Federal Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. in a court hearing said, “You can’t justify the ordinances that […]
We’re into January now, and so out of Christmas, which means everyone can go back to their regularly scheduled grump. Except: Wait. Some peoples in this world, they will celebrate Christmas today. Others, tomorrow. Still […]
In the fall of 1991, my mom and I went on a Friendship Force trip to Moscow. It was six years after glasnost—the unfreezing of the USSR as an authoritarian state—and shortly before the “Union” […]
Recent articles by local investigative journalist Dave Waddell published on the Chico Sol website reveal disturbing new details about the law-enforcement-involved killing of 34-year-old Tyler Rushing in Chico the night of July 23, 2017. The […]
I am one of many people who has lost a parent since the pandemic started. My mother didn’t die of COVID-19, but she was in a quarantined assisted-living facility in April 2020 when we got […]
I met Melissa Daugherty in fire. Even when I wasn’t reading the thing, I would haul home great stacks of the CN&R, as firestarter. And this, it was one of those times. Bob Speer, he […]
This guest comment is part of special wildfire report on the one-year anniversary of the North Complex Fire’s destruction of Berry Creek and Feather Falls. Find links for more articles in this series at the […]
Maintaining groundwater levels adequate to sustain agricultural and domestic use and streamflow in Butte County will be at risk if management is in the hands of private interests through the proposed Tuscan Water District (TWD), […]
I’m a Democrat, a Vietnam veteran, and a fully vaccinated longtime resident of Chico, and I’m voting no on the recall of California’s governor, Gavin Newsom. COVID-19 is back and more contagious, and it goes […]
When a dear friend was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, I asked her what she needed from me, offering soup, a walk, any small comfort I could provide. “Poetry,” she requested, “bring me poems.” Similarly, the […]
I know of at least 22 homeless people who’ve died in the past 12 months. Many of them died on our sidewalks, including one man who was found near the entrance of the Chico Chamber […]
A few years ago at an election forum, Chico City Council candidates were asked how they would direct resources to Bidwell Park. One candidate, who shall remain nameless, laughed at the question. “There’s no money […]
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