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Guest Comment: Identity support

July 25, 2023 Mandi Robertson 10

I am white, heterosexual, neurotypical, cisgendered and able-bodied. Though I grew up below the poverty line and endured several ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences), I was a first-generation college student and have an advanced degree, a […]

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Guest Comment: A new response to homelessness

July 5, 2023 Liv Jolley 0

As any well-informed resident should know, the issue of homelessness in Butte County is abundant and nuanced. Somewhere between spirited (and at times violent) efforts to remove Chico’s homeless from public parks and spaces and […]

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Guest Comment: Gun culture

May 3, 2023 Janet Rechtman 0

The other day I woke up with a Carpenters moldy-oldy ear-worming through my brain: We’ve only just begun … Except the words were something like “we only just be guns” because it was the day […]

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Guest Comment: Bully on the trail

April 6, 2023 Janet Rechtman 3

“Would you please restrain your dog?” my husband asks. “My dog just wants to play with your dog! Leave him alone, you geezer!” is her response. Red-faced with seeming rage, she grabs her dog’s collar, […]

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Guest Comment: Missions to serve

January 26, 2023 Donald Heinz 1

These days, “social-justice Christians” are determined to take the gospel out the church door and make it a social gospel. Even more boldly, “Matthew 25 Christians,” who are determined to see Jesus in “the least […]

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Guest Comment: ‘Me-and-you-ing’

January 4, 2023 Janet Rechtman 0

Mendocino Headlands State Park. We walk a curvy trail alongside the estuary as the Big River winds its way to the ocean. The word that comes to mind is “meandering,” which brings me to “me-and-you-enduring,” […]

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Guest Comment: Oppose Valley’s Edge

December 1, 2022 Susan Tchudi 0

Valley’s Edge, the enormous (1,448 acres) sprawl project east of Bruce Road, would forever change the character of Chico. With over 2,700 housing units and a projected population of over 5,000 people, this proposed development […]

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Guest comment: Convening for Paradise, in Paradise

November 3, 2022 Allen Myers 0

In the immediate wake of the Camp Fire, there was great need for the residents of the Ridge to gather. But with so much of Paradise destroyed, there were few opportunities to do so. Town […]

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Guest Comment: Registration Day call for action

September 20, 2022 Evan Tuchinsky 0

By Dora Rose and Brittany Stonesifer With our nation’s democracy facing existential threats, California’s duty to protect and empower every eligible voter in the state has never been more urgent. Although we often lead the […]

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Guest Comment: Don’t risk fire-victims fund

August 30, 2022 Richard Stach 3

My wife and I own Oak Hill Mobile Estates, one of more than 30 manufactured-home parks in Paradise that burned in the Camp Fire caused by PG&E. We were the first park to accept new […]

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Rest in peace, friend of Chico

July 22, 2022 Evan Tuchinsky 15

[Editor’s note: According to the Butte County Coroner’s office, Tom Nickell was found dead in his Chico home on July 19. Details on exact date and cause of death have not yet been released.] Like […]

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Guest comment: Free help for small business

July 7, 2022 Sophie Konuwa 0

Businesses in Butte County have faced many challenges since the Camp Fire in 2018. These were exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the economy remained mostly locked down, the Butte College Small Business Development Center […]

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Sharks and other ‘threats’

June 10, 2022 Dean Carrier 1

It occurred to me the other evening that, through my lifetime, I’d never given much thought to sharks. That might seem odd as I was born and raised in a beach town, and until I […]

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Guest comment: No hotel

June 5, 2022 Nan Tofanelli 3

As a California Park resident since 1992, I have seen a lot of changes in this community. Most of them were well thought out and compatible with the existing development. However, the proposed four-story hotel […]

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Guest comment: Latest saga in homeless holocaust

May 11, 2022 Patrick Newman 1

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. […]

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