Opinions
Second & Flume: Bad timing
By the time you read this, I’ll be recuperating from my second surgery in a month. I won’t go through the whole long and involved story, but I will give you a snippet of the […]
Opinions
Opinions
Editorial: Armchair epidemiology
Sequestered at home over the course of the pandemic, most of you undoubtedly have had a discussion—directly or through social media—with someone who’s shared “important information” about coronavirus. People with time on their hands find […]
Opinions
Streetalk: How do you maintain mental health during lockdown?
Asked in downtown Chico. Silvia FrancoadministratorI’m really just trying to be active and trying to have a routine of some sort. I have been going to the gym, [and I] go to the park like […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: Should kids go back to school next month?
Asked in downtown Chico. Mackenzie TealbaristaI get both sides of it because my sister wants to see her friends and everything, but I think that at this point it’s more important for the health of […]
Street Talk
Streetalk: What’s first thing you’ll do post-lockdown?
Asked in downtown Chico. Danny MillerglassblowerI’m going to enjoy a night out in the community with my friends. That’s pretty much it. Travis BerghstudentWe were planning to go to a festival for five days but […]
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
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
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
Police brutality and Chico’s path forward
By Ron Angle The role of a newspaper columnist is to provide perspective to the news of the day. The role of a newspaper reporter is to report the basic facts and no more: the […]
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 […]