Issue: August 10, 2017
Morning, readers!
How good is your memory? Our feature story this week delves into the science of memory and how technology plays a part.
In other news: Rep. Doug LaMalfa visits Chico and takes quite a bit of criticism for his policies; the Board of Supervisors vote to ban commercial cannabis--except for deliveries; and downtown's new rock shop aims to expose us all to the natural world.
Also: It's Best of Chico time! Log in your votes at www.ChicoBestOf.com.
Until next time,
Meredith J. Cooper, managing editor
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Why is my memory so bad?
Seeking help for the scatterbrained.
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LaMalfa takes a licking
Crowd mostly made up of angry constituents at Monday’s town hall in Chico.
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Cannabis caution
Butte supervisors ban sales, allow deliveries—for now.
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$15 million and counting
Farms’ flood claim is just one of many facing DWR over Oroville Dam spillway disaster.
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Funding for rainy days
Grant money available for local emergency food and shelter programs.
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Supes sue state
Butte County supervisors file lawsuit over Gov. Jerry Brown’s twin tunnels project, California WaterFix.
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An unlikely partnership
Local homeless-services providers team up to serve LGBT individuals.
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Feel the love all month long
August is National Romance Month.
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Greening the fleet
Chico school district gets state air board grants to replace old diesel buses and buy an electric bus.
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When wounds won’t heal
In the $5 billion ostomy industry, suffering patients find few treatments with scientifically established effectiveness.
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West Nile hits home
As virus is detected in Butte County, officials urge simple precautions.
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Know your enemy
LaMalfa’s town hall should make more progressives be like Bernie.
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Bread and circuses
How the Trump follies keep us distracted while the administration lays waste to progressive policies.
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Waste of money, insult to tribe
Butte County has squandered hundreds of thousands of dollars on a futile effort to bar the Mechoopda from building a casino.
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Missed opportunity
Musings on Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s recent shindig, and a shout out to a kind letter writer.
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Crystallized vision
Kasey Valle opens Geology Rocks! in downtown Chico.
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Best season ever
CN&R opens Best of Chico polls; Live Life Juice, Sweet Cottage and Envee Salon move around downtown; and BofA set to close in Paradise.
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High-stakes combat
Blue Room’s Frost/Nixon is a powerful staging of historic encounter.
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Most Dangerous Place
Jack Swyteck returns for another crazy case.
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Itinerant Arias
The well-worn voice of Chistopher Paul Stelling.
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Backyard kitchen
Henri turns off the oven and grills his meat outside.
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Faulty tower
Adaptation reduces Stephen King series to rubble.
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‘Believe in yourself’
Q&A: AS President Dylan Gray on campus life.
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29 places in Chico to buy a taco for $2 or less
No matter where you are, an inexpensive taco is near.
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Four places in Bidwell Park that no one is talking about
Nature hideaways.
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Chico after dark
Half a dozen reasons to stay up late (that don’t include a frat party)
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