Issue: April 14, 2011
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Tax myths and misunderstandings
So lowering taxes produces prosperity? Show us the money!
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Waldorf in transition
Chico’s popular Blue Oak Charter School has two years to increase its students’ test scores to the satisfaction of state standards.
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Mobile-app marvel
Chico State senior Andrew Gazdecki heads successful startup company aimed at providing affordable mobile apps for small businesses.
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Update wrapped up
Chico City Council adopts the controversial general plan after three years spent constructing and vetting the document.
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Disaster in Japan
Chico State professors explain the science behind the devastating quake and tsunami.
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Look out, light poles
Allegedly drunken teenager with a previous DUI clips one light pole and crashes straight into another along Park Avenue.
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Parents take plea deal
Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz plead guilty in death of adopted daughter.
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Pills, pot and a shotgun
Chico police arrest two early-20s Chicoans on drugs and firearm charges.
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Ordinance gets overhaul
Proposed medical-marijuana-cultivation law in Butte County gets a major rewrite.
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The wild side
Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society hosts biennial Wildflower Show and Native Plant Sale at Chico’s CARD Center.
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Let’s go fishin’!
After three years of limited fishing, salmon population grows to healthy size.
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Don’t worry about radiation
EPA increases its monitoring of radiation-exposure routes after the nuclear crisis in Japan—so far, so good.
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Dolphin die-off
Government tells scientists to keep mum about dolphin die-off findings.
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Keepin’ it local
Local Junior Duck Stamp winners announced; plus, new book for locavores.
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Falling through the cracks
Butte County’s poor and elderly will be hard-hit by health-care-related budget cuts.
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Shield your skin!
Baseball players and dermatologists team up to prevent skin cancer.
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Superbug invades So-Cal
Drug-resistant bacteria shows up in hundreds of cases at L.A.-area hospitals.
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Cancer on the decline
Report shows a decline in new cases of cancer and cancer deaths.
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Judge OKs doctor-rating system
For the first time, a California court weighs in on an online physician-rating system.
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Too dammed expensive
Build more dams? Not if taxpayers have to pay for them.
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Death penalty is ‘inherently flawed’
California should follow Illinois’ example and abolish the death penalty.
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Article distorts Enloe’s contribution
CEO says the hospital is doing what it can to deal with a broken health-care system.
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Letters for April 14, 2011
Our always-sharp readers let us know what they think.
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Kimono karma
Chicoan Chieko Page turns dresses into bags to help victims in Japan.
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The truth about taxes
They don’t inhibit prosperity, they produce it.
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Tz’utujil Mayan paintings at Chico Art Center
José and Henry Méndez’s show at the Chico Art Center celebrates Guatemala’s colorful Mayan culture.
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A Widow’s Story: A Memoir
Joyce Carol Oates tells her widow’s story.
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Good-times rag
The Chico Ragtime / Tin Pan Alley Open Mic keeps old-time music alive.
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CAMMIES: Week one
Indie/Experimental, Rap and Funk/Jam nominees for the 2011 Chico Area Music Awards.
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Run Hanna Run
Euro-flavored actioner is more fun than typical Hollywood fare.
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Source Code
A quick and easy nugget of film goodness or badness.
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