Asked in Bidwell Park, Chico Byron ToewsRemodelerThis happened back when I was a drinker, I don’t drink anymore…but I was outside a bar, smoking a cigarette, and this woman [nearby] was having an emotional episode. […]
By Angelina Hinojosa Every year when May rolls around and people “observe” Mental Health Awareness Month, it hits differently for me. Up until a few years ago, I wasn’t comfortable talking about mental health or ever asking […]
Re: “Robot dogs and ‘F Newsom’ signage: The ever-stranger conversation about public safety in Chico” by Ken Magri (News) “The sign at Down Range shows a giant white letter ‘F’ on a black background next […]
Asked in downtown Chico Adrianna Wiley Owner of Adrianna’s Bakery Thinking about all the different ways I can continue to try to be a better me and grow as a person and heal. Jeremiah WalkerStudent/ServerThe […]
By Loretta Lynch for CalMatters Fed up with decades of powerful railroads corrupting the state board that was supposed to regulate them, California voters created the modern Public Utilities Commission in 1911. Now, some 114 […]
By Mickey Huff Media scholar Carl Jensen was deeply influenced by the independent muckraking journalists of the twentieth century—so much so that he founded Project Censored at Sonoma State University, in 1976, in the wake […]
Asked at Thursday Night Market, downtown Chico Briza PerezParalegalThe nice weather, you can go to the park. But sometimes spring weather can be temperamental. I prefer the cooler temperatures, and not when it gets hot. […]
Asked in downtown Chico Kitty Courcier Retired Nurse My family. They’re there for me, I’m there for them. It’s close to home, I know their intentions, and I trust them. From there on out, friends, […]
By Angie Eng It takes a crisis to uplift us from the abyss. When despair engulfs, human kindness emerges. Contrary to a Hobbesian world vision popularized by films like “Soylent Green” or “The Road,” humans […]
An editorial by Chico News & Review The five most frightening words that could ever be uttered have finally sounded across the universe. Gavin. Newsom. Has. A. Podcast. In all seriousness, any question of whether California’s governor […]
Asked in downtown Chico Michael HawkinsPolitical ActivistI don’t know if there’s a market for it but an Irish restaurant would be in order I think. We don’t have such a thing in the U.S.— not […]
Asked at Chico Saturday Farmer’s Market Lisa CarsonTeacherI have mixed feelings about Bidwell Mansion being rebuilt because I know we can’t bring it back to its original form. As a child, I loved visiting it, […]
Re: “Ishi’s story still haunts Butte County and beyond” by Scott Thomas Anderson (Opinion & History) Thank you, Scott, for this soul-rending reminder of the loss of life and history of California’s indigenous tribes at […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson “I fear the day when technology overlaps with our humanity,” Albert Einstein reflected. “The world will only have a generation of idiots.” Or a cohort of incurious, tech-narcotized mental younglings who […]
By Scott Thomas Anderson It’s hard to believe that it happened in Oroville of all places – that an embodiment of the land’s lost voices, and a final survivor of California’s darkest crimes, appeared in […]
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