Opinions
Editor’s note: Hire date: July 3, 2003
I don’t think my first day of employment as recorded by the Chico News & Review is correct, but I’m certain about the first story I wrote for the paper. It was an interview with […]
Chico News & Review
Opinions
Editor’s note: New year’s update
For this first issue of the Chico News & Review for 2022, I had hopes of sharing good news of a holiday boon and a return to normal for our county and this newspaper, but […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Change
Under the shade of a plum tree sits a long wooden table with laptops and paper notebooks strewn about its weathered cedar planks. This is the bird’s-eye view of the Chico News & Review’s pandemic-era […]
Opinions
Second & Flume: Commitment
Each year at around this time, I write about the awards the CN&R picks up in the annual journalism competition put on by the California News Publishers’ Association. I give a rundown in Second & […]
Opinions
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 […]
Arts & Culture
Arts DEVO: Let’s all spring forward, please!
I am hopeful that the News & Review will find a way—Arts DEVO, March 19, 2020 It has been one year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak as a global pandemic (March […]
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 […]