Two Chico State alumni tackle different territories and perspectives with their writing.
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Shasta County's long-serving registrar of voters is retiring tomorrow. Nobody in the county is quite sure how the vacant seat will be filled. Also, an education center for Native American youth is opening in Greenville soon, and residents in Red Bluff struggling with homelessness now have somewhere to go for support.
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As California faces a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall this year, one program facing the chopping block is Market Match, a food stamps partner program that provides extra money to use on produce at farmers markets. Organizers of Market Match in the North State are raising the alarm that losing the program would have massive consequences for communities across the state.
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To kick off May, looking forward to Mother’s Day, Graduations, and the promise of Summer Gardening in general here in the US, this week we go all in for flowers in pots! with one of the world’s bright gardens and floral stars: Sarah Raven. Her newest book: A Year Full of Pots Container Flowers for All Seasons, notes that pots in the garden are like "bubbles in a glass of champagne.
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Shasta Regional Medical Center was fined $155,000 for violations in 2023. Also, a new all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant is now in the old IHOP building, and students in Butte County can get the Tdap (or DTaP) and HPV vaccines free of cost at several upcoming clinics.
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A community fridge in south Chico faces closure if not adopted by another operator.
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Former Chico State faculty members provide two very different militia tales.
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Aid groups in the southern Gaza city of Rafah are trying to maintain services for people unable to leave amid an Israeli assault there. People who can leave Rafah are unsure where to go.
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It's Been a Minute's Brittany Luse talks with Jane Schoenbrun, the writer and director of I Saw the TV Glow, about two suburban teens in the 1990s who bond over a show.
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A new young adult novel called Blood at the Root follows a Black teen learning to harness his ancestral magic. Before it was a novel, it was a failed TV pilot. Before that, it was a tweet.
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Kenya has endured months of record rainfall with no sign the deluge will stop any time soon. With over 200 killed in flash floods, many Kenyans think the government has been slow to react.
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With the federal ban on noncompetes set to take effect in 120 days, workers bound by such agreements are starting to wonder whether they are free to pursue work that they otherwise couldn't do.
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The Garrick, a drinking and dining den tucked away on a side street in London, has long been a haunt of Britain's top politicians, actors and lawyers. Women have not been allowed to join — until now.
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