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Second & Flume: Personal bests

September 1, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

August 2, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

June 23, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

May 31, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

May 3, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

March 1, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

February 1, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

January 4, 2023 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

November 1, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

October 6, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

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

August 31, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

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 […]

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Second & Flume: Risky business

August 4, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

I let my guard down. Early last month, my family and I took a nice, long coastal vacation. Ten days, two beach towns. One in Northern California and the other about two-thirds of the way […]

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Second & Flume: Fat cat

July 7, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

Man, was June 24 a dumpster fire day. I woke up that Friday morning to the news that the Extremist Court—aka Supreme Court—had repealed the 50-year precedent on legalized abortion. Next up, Butte County’s retiring […]

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Second & Flume: JC & the real WMDs

June 8, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

God and guns. I’ve yet to figure out how so many people have convinced themselves that they go together. It’s delusional. Indeed, Jesus followers are kidding themselves if they think that their beloved peace-loving proselytizer—the […]

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Second & Flume: Seeking intelligent life

May 11, 2022 Melissa Daugherty 0

When are the aliens going to show themselves? No, seriously. When I think about what’s happening in the world today, I can’t help but think about the fact that the federal government has vaguely acknowledged […]

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