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Second & Flume: Hope
The rain was the perfect company as I sat down on the eve of the one-year anniversary of California’s coronavirus lockdown. Not coincidentally, March 19, 2020, was also the day that the CN&R closed its […]
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Guest comment: On Covid, local politics and homelessness …
It has been a while since I last shared my thoughts within this space. It is not that I am reluctant to speak out. Rather, back in July, I was struck down by a very […]
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Editorial: Blessed are the activists
We were heartened by the turnout outside of the City Council chambers last Tuesday (March 2), where dozens of Chicoans gathered to remember their homeless neighbors. They were there to mourn those who’d perished—at least […]
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Human rights and our homeless neighbors
Adopted in the wake of the horrors of World War II, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights is no less relevant today, especially in view of the horrors visited upon Chico’s homeless population. […]
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Letters to the editor: March 11, 2021
Swept away Re “High Noon at the Triangle”: Observations on the City of Chico sweeps: 1. They’re not an effective use of taxpayer funds. Sweeps are more expensive than campgrounds. Sweeps cost tens of thousands […]
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Streetalk: Will you get a COVID-19 vaccine?
Spencer CopperunemployedI’ll get it if I have to, but I’m not going to go out of my way to get it. Mark Gonzalez (on the left)access controlGot both of them. We just got our second […]
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Second & Flume: Damage control
I’ll never forget the morning after the Camp Fire—Nov. 9, 2018. That’s the day I drove up the Skyway and into the burning hellscape of what I once recognized as the town of Paradise. One […]
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Second & Flume: Unforgiven
This Gen-Xer’s lefty views on the government and social issues diverge greatly from a lot of folks in the North State, and that includes most of those with whom I share DNA. I’d call myself […]
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Editorial: Life and death consequences
Over the past eight months in Chico, five homeless people have died either on public rights of way or outdoors on private property. At least a dozen other unhoused individuals have perished elsewhere, at Enloe […]
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Guest comment: On pain, courage and moving forward
The new year has brought out a lot of sentiment to move on and not look back. “It’s a new day,” some people say about Washington, D.C., or about the vaccine. “Looking forward” is a […]
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Streetalk: How do you feel about President Biden’s plans for the country?
Asked in downtown Chico. Annie Fischerjuicer/cashierI’m definitely much more optimistic. I feel that we’re at least in a situation where things can progress and I’m hopeful. Obviously things won’t be perfect overnight, but overall I […]
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Guest comment: Universal health care for California
California is primed to lead the way for the country by bringing universal health care to the Golden State. With 70 percent citizen support for Medicare for All (MFA); a governor who as mayor had […]
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Guest comment: ‘Imaginary conversations’
For all of my life, I’ve been what folks back home in Georgia called a “yellow dog Democrat.” That is, I would vote for a yellow dog so long as it was a Democrat. Now […]
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Guest comment: Public health and human rights
The recent eviction of homeless people from Lower Bidwell Park is not reflective of a compassionate community. What happened there amounts to an inhumane disregard of human rights. Let me be clear and address those […]
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Letters: Readers weigh in on LaMalfa and more
Constituents unload on LaMalfa Doug LaMalfa is not only not “one of us”, he has shamed all of us. His failure to support the democratic republic we live in, and his arrogant exposure of others […]