Issue: July 05, 2007
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Happy campers
Ability First lifts disabled youths to new heights.
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Laborers of love
Ability First volunteers like Dana Grantham keep coming—and giving—back to camp.
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Homeless teens
Teens join forces to set up a shelter for homeless youth in Chico.
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State budget
The AB 2034 Program has helped thousands of mentally ill homeless people, but the governor wants to cut it in order to save money.
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Sins of commission
Chico’s Planning Commission has been under attack. Are the criticisms fair or just politics?
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Mercury blues
Fewer reporters, fewer voices, less experience in Bay Area papers.
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Secret garden
Devoted volunteers tend a community garden at an unlikely south Chico location.
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All aboard the eco-train
Union Pacific’s new locomotives run on an environmentally friendly track.
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Animal-free meat?
Researchers work to create pork and other meats in laboratories.
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EPA cloudy on smog standards
Environmentalists are wary of ozone recommendations.
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Good green living
Chico is ranked as the 20th best green city in America by Country Home magazine.
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Let the eagle soar
All hail the American bald eagle’s good health.
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What is lost freedom worth?
Victims of wrongful conviction rarely get the compensation they deserve.
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Letters for July 5, 2007
Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
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Rock ‘n’ roll
Ex-deejay Ben Beckman about to join sushi chef ranks.
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Presents past and future
Looking at materialism on the eve of matrimony.
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The joke’s on you
Junk tyrant gets schooled by a ‘dumb broad’ and a four-eyed pencil-pusher in Born Yesterday.
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Two tickets to Paradise
A CN&R intern takes a short journey to try her hand at the ukulele.
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Days of Lore
Finding Utopia in Trinidad; The Crux mixes rock with art; Nothing People do something with Radio Birdman; and a time to pay tribute to those who pay tribute.
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Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey
The author of Fight Club returns with the odd tale of a boy named Rant.
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Technobabble
Say hello to WeFi; the Thompson Twins are hiding in records; keep your phone pee free; and MySpace makes it to Madison Avenue.
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Life of the funeral
Former Bone Grueler Johnny Von Graves steers The Nerve into uncharted waters.
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Keeping tradition
Thai Basil fills the void left by a local favorite.
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Die hardest
Bruce Willis returns for more explosions, and one-liners.
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