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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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Guest comment: ‘Our elders need us’
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 […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor: Nov. 4, 2021
Remembering Stephen Vest Last night, I shared with a close friend the body-worn camera video of Chico “peace” officers Nick Bauer, who forgot his bean-bag shotgun and fired two shots from a .45, and Tyler […]
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Second & Flume: Incoming
The day after the CN&R closed up shop last year due to the statewide shutdown, I sat in our downstairs conference room with a few staffers and former staffers. I’d invited them to the office […]
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Editor’s note: J’s School
Hey, I’m the Editor now! How did that happen? Let’s review: With apologies to the heroic Chico State professors who initially helped rewire this Redding hick’s brain, the most important schoolin’ in my 52 years […]
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Editorial: Bring back the masks
In June, when most of the state mandates related to coronavirus were lifted, Butte County was in pretty good shape. But by early August, due to the more virulent delta strain, the case count began […]
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Salute, Melissa
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 […]
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Streetalk: Best song?
Asked in downtown Chico Angel Durhamstay-at-home mom“Bohemian Rhapsody,” [by Queen]. I like the entire aesthetic of it—I love the song. [I’d listen to it] everyday; it’s just a happy song. Todd Steinbergreal estate agent trainerThe […]
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Letters for Oct. 7, 2021
Folly of the recall Re: “Should Newsom be recalled?” (Newslines, Sept. 2): In 2018, Californians elected Gavin Newsom as the governor of California with a 62 percent vote. Republicans, including local ones, and QAnon activists […]
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Chico’s bloody hands
We can’t help but think of how the city of Chico would have reacted if the person recently gunned down in a public greenway hadn’t been homeless. Think about it. Let’s say your neighbor had […]
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Editorial: The Ridge needs good neighbors
In the wake of the Camp Fire, Paradise has struggled economically and otherwise. It’s understandable considering virtually 80 percent of the town was wiped out in a single day, whereas rebuilding and repopulation will take […]
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Accountability
This column 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 end […]