Issue: February 12, 2009
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Love: A kiss is just a kiss … or is it?
This Valentine’s Day, let’s contemplate the strange and wonderful activity of kissing.
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Sex: Confessions of a Chico call girl
She became a prostitute because the money was good. Getting out isn’t that easy.
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Marriage: In the stars
Chico astrologist Alexandra Karacostas says matchmaking is her favorite thing to do.
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What’s your house worth?
A mass reappraisal of properties transferred during 2004-07 is bringing down assessed values—and tax revenues.
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‘I’m willing to go to jail’
Supervisor Bill Connelly said he’d go to jail before he’d ask county taxpayers to pay for state services.
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Homeless count shows a different way of life
Locals share their stories of living on the streets.
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A league of their own
Lisa Park’s qualifications are unimpeachable, but when some parents threatened to pull their sons from her team, she was ousted as Chico Eastside’s first female majors coach.
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Democrats in mourning
Doris Smith, former chairwoman of the Butte County Democratic Central Committee, dies at 92.
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Cleaning up the air
AQMD announces $450,000 in Carl Moyer Program funds for Butte County residents to retrofit engines.
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Fire disaster gets personal
Butte County Supervisor Maureen Kirk gets burned out of her Chico home just days before a vote on relaxing codes in wildfire areas.
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Birds do it, bees do it …
So, why do we do it? One study found 237 reasons.
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Sex tips for greens
How to get your freak on in an eco-friendly way.
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Community gets serious about fair trade
Locals work to make Chico a Fair Trade Town.
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Seals with zeal
Biologists raise awareness of elephant seals by naming two after Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.
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Foxes flourish
Wildlife experts say the Catalina Island fox has recovered from near extinction.
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Straight-talkin’ Steve
Chu, Obama’s energy secretary, talks about global warming’s devastating consequences.
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ABCs of accreditation
Changes are on the way for the USGBC’s credentialing program.
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Fire it up right!
One way to reduce the amount of smoke in the air is to build good fires in your wood heater. Here’s how.
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This debacle must end
With state leaders nearing a compromise budget deal, now is the time to lance the $42 billion boil on the back of the people of California.
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‘Twinned note of our time’
Born on the same day 200 years ago, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin together created the modern marriage of science and democratic politics.
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Fair trade: buying by heart
Follow the city of Chico’s lead and look for the FTC label this Valentine’s Day.
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Letters for February 12, 2009
Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
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Going the distance
Benjamin Jackson and Sarah Gorman came together despite it all.
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Silly love songs
Engaging the flashback function on the mental iPod. (TMI? You decide …)
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I get the music
Blue Room’s Hedwig crew returns for a crack at The Who’s Tommy.
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Re-setting the bar
Rogue Theatre takes flight with David Harrower’s award-winning Blackbird.
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Parking Meter Blues
In her new book, Debra Moon explains why it’s never wise to go see a pig on your first date.
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Seeking treasure
Former Nickel Creek mandolinist Chris Thile maps out new adventure with the Punch Brothers.
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New flavor on the block
Petra Mediterranean Cuisine is new downtown Chico fave.
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Mindless fun
Superpower movie packs a punch but leaves some questions unanswered.
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Mostly a bust
Adaptation of self-help book misses the empowering point of it all.
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The Trials of Ted Haggard
Once-powerful minister, now fallen from grace, bares his soul to Alexandra Pelosi.
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Short Review
A quick and easy nugget of film goodness or badness.
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Short Review
A quick and easy nugget of film goodness or badness.
This article was published on 02.12.09