Opinions
Second & Flume: Cheers to Dave
I last saw Dave Mettler a few weeks before Thanksgiving. I was at Safeway to buy sourdough bread, but I popped over to the next aisle to say hello to the store’s venerable “wine guy.” […]
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Guest comment: Permanent Christmas
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 […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor: Jan. 6, 2022
Surrender, Oroville Re “What were they thinking?” (feature, CN&R, Dec. 3, 2021): If the city of Oroville wants to secede from the union, let them go. This means, however: United States currency is not longer […]
News
Editorial: The numbers equal people
Even for the most committed COVID-19 dashboard watchers, the amount of data being generated during the coronavirus pandemic can be daunting. For two years, news of the virus in the U.S. has been told in […]
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Guest comment: Democracy and déjà vu
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” […]
Opinions
Editorial: Another year here, thanks to you
Each December, the CN&R reflects on the news of the year by putting together a list of top stories. It’s a tradition around these parts, as it is for newspapers around the nation and the […]
Opinions
Editor’s note: We’re not enemies
In the Chico neighborhood where my wife, dog, cat and I live, maybe a five-minute walk away from our house, lives the leader of one of the local Facebook “public safety” groups. She is a […]
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Second & Flume: Best laid plans
One recent evening, I told my son the good news. I explained that scientists had come up with a way to help him get the protection he’d need to be able to return to school […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: Make anything special for the holidays?
Asked in downtown Chico. Danielle HawkinsteacherWe always do Christmas cookies at my mom’s house, which is really sweet. I have two kids and my sister has two kids, and so we’ve been doing it since […]
Opinions
Letters to the editor: Dec. 2, 2021
Better for our elders Re: “Our elders need us” (Guest Comment, Nov. 4): I found this commentary, although well-meaning, a truly sad commentary on our civilization. [Joe Wills] says, as a society, elders must accept […]
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Guest comment: Call for DA transparency
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 […]
Opinions
Aaron Rodgers: WTF?
Where do we even start on this one? Aaron Rodgers—hometown hero, future Pro Football Hall of Famer, generous Camp Fire benefactor—what in the world were you thinking? News last week that the former Butte College […]
Second & Flume
Second & Flume: Disaster lesson
I still get anxiety when I visit Paradise. I go up there only occasionally, mostly to visit a friend who, thankfully, lives just off the main drag. I’m all right if I stay on or […]
Opinions
Editorial: A dangerous propagandist
Butte County’s all-hat, no-cattle congressman, Doug LaMalfa, is licking the boots of a prominent member of his party by perpetuating a coronavirus conspiracy theory, an apparent attempt to make a name for himself no matter […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: What’s your superpower?
Asked in downtown Chico David Hineskitchen managerBeing a little bit too logical. It helps me with recipes and things like that—explaining things, making sure it’s understood by everybody on every wavelength so it’s overly clear. […]