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Second & Flume: Bitter end
For me, the print CN&R died not with the monthly issue you may be holding in your hands, but rather the one published on March 19, 2020, the last weekly edition. I found a copy […]
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Second & Flume: ‘Cost-of-living crisis’
Last month, while sick with a particularly bad virus, I ordered take-out a lot. Over the course of two weeks, I barely cooked. I didn’t have the energy, and the minuscule amount I could muster […]
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Second & Flume: Untold stories
When I think about the Camp Fire’s fifth anniversary, I think about the CN&R. For me, the two are inextricably intertwined. After the blaze, the paper’s small staff wrote week in and week out about […]
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Second & Flume: Fall
I moved to the North State in the late-’90s, but somehow I still haven’t acclimated to the heat. Every summer, I count down the days till fall and obsessively check the seven-day forecast. But I […]
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Second & Flume: Personal bests
Like many locals, I’ve been thinking about Maui, particularly the residents of Lahaina. As is stated in the editorial, having experienced the Camp Fire (and North Complex fires), Butte County can empathize in a way […]
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Second & Flume: Skynet
A futurist I am not. I was in middle school when Back to the Future Part 2 came out in 1989, and I specifically remember a scene in which Marty McFly, who’d transported to the […]
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Second & Flume: Bleeding heart
Were people always so crass? That was one of my first thoughts when I started seeing memes about the lives of the people aboard the ill-fated vessel attempting to view the wreckage of the Titanic. […]
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Second & Flume: New oldies
When I was in high school and started seeing bell-bottoms in fashion magazines, I realized some of my mom’s old clothes were actually cool. I would’ve cringed had she actually worn them, but of course […]
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Second & Flume: Thanks, Roger
Twenty years ago this month, I graduated from Chico State and started my first journalism job. It was an internship at the Enterprise-Record, where I joined a team of nine news reporters. There was Ari, […]
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Second & Flume: Hunger games
One can only assume sweets shop heiress Kasey Reynolds has never been hungry. Same goes for Sean Morgan, the son of a doctor; Andrew Coolidge, whose father was an attorney; and caterer Deepika Tandon. These […]
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Second & Flume: Spring healing
During a recent hangout with friends, one told me her goal for 2023 was to forgo buying things. She didn’t call it a resolution, but the intention sounded similar. A full year without spending money […]
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Second & Flume: A worthy resolution
I miss a lot of things about working downtown, but this time of year—for the past couple of years, anyway—I get especially nostalgic for the CN&R’s old digs at Second and Flume streets. Each holiday, […]
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Second & Flume: Rebel with a cause
Excuse my absence for a month while I become a full-blown journalism cliché. In November, inspired by the annual National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo), I’m embarking on a sizable writing project. The goal: write […]
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Second & Flume: Machiavelli’s tax
Local conservative politicians and their cronies sure know how to spin things. I’ve watched them do it repeatedly over the years, perhaps most notably amid the fallout from the Great Recession—and perhaps nobody as adeptly […]
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Second & Flume: Obstacles
Over the past three weeks, my son has been convalescing at home from surgery on his foot and leg. We’d go stir crazy if we were stuck in the house all day, so we use […]