No Ceremony for Those Who Marry in Kings, Kern, and Butte
Three counties in California will not be performing ceremonies for Gay couples who wish to marry. A previous diary on Kos detailed that Kern County Auditor-Controller-County Clerk Ann Barnett has...
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California 2nd District Kossacks-- UNITE!
You know what's it's like in this very red district in northern California-- lonely!Now you have a group in which to commiserate, organize, and find your fellow Progressives. Stay in touch with the...
View ArticleImportant local power grab in Chico CA.
The emboldened Right seems to have the same sorts of ideas all over, even here in California. In Chico, the lovely town from which I take my screen name, the forces of the far right have concluded...
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This land is our land - Colusa NWR and Gray Lodge WA, California
Over the past two weekends, I've spent some time in two of my favorite places in California's Central Valley. Both the Colusa unit of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex and Gray Lodge...
View ArticleChico CA Labor Rally - Join US!
This is just a short diary as one more way of getting the word out to folks in rural Northern California. This Saturday, April 23, 2PM, Chico City Plaza. The Rally for Workers Rights and Reclaiming...
View ArticleDo The Right Thing
(Various different one Kossacks have suggested from time to time that I publish this piece here. Tonight I figured: Halloween, why not? In many traditions, this is the time of year when the scrim...
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Chico Community Observatory - Saturn and Crab Nebula
At the suggestion of an online friend Saturday Night I went out to Upper Bidwell park to visit the Chico Community Observatory. The first really amazing thing to me was how dark it got entering Bidwell...
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Historic Introduction of Chico CA, aka Tree City USA, comments wanted and...
As a disabled veteran wanting to learn more about his new home town, I was very surprised by the lack of tours about this very historic town. So I decided maybe I could do something in Chico like they...
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The California Frack Wars: Episode V - The Industry Strikes Back
The California Democratic PartyIn an email that I sent back in February, I urged delegates within the California Democratic Party to join me in confronting Governor Jerry Brown during his keynote...
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Connect! Unite! Act! DC, Denver, Michigan, San Jose & Boston Meet-Ups — Meet...
A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support candidates and engage in other...
View ArticleWhen it comes to trigger-happy cops, don't believe your lying eyes
Not quite sure what to say about this one, so let’s just start at the beginning: Paradise, California, police officer Patrick Feaster, who had been sitting in his patrol car, suddenly takes off on a...
View ArticleButte County Voters Pass Fracking Ban
The voters in Butte County, California approved Measure E, a ban on fracking, by an overwhelming 71 percent on June 7.Butte is the fourth California county to ban the environmentally destructive and...
View ArticleCA-01 Butte: Let's evaluate our usual sucky election options (plus bonus...
Hyper-local candidates rarely hit the media with big headlines and heated hashtags. How do we know which Judges to vote for? I’ve decided based on yard signs. If the yard promotes other candidates I...
View ArticleFormer officer guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2015 Thanksgiving shooting
Former Paradise Police Officer Patrick Feaster was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on Oct. 18. A jury in Butte County—in northern California, about two and a half hours from Reno,...
View ArticleCDFW rescues 8 million young salmon, 1 million steelhead on Feather River
Over 50 California Department of Fish and Wildlife staff conducted a successful relocation over the past two days of 6.5 million young Chinook salmon imperiled by raging, muddy flows of 65,000 cfs...
View ArticleFEMA approves Oroville Dam spillway & January storm disaster declaration...
Just hours after the Butte County Sheriff reduced the immediate evacuation order of Oroville region residents to an evacuation warning, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) today approved...
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Never used new Oroville spillway is cracked but DWR says no problem, trust us
The 180,000 people downstream of Lake Oroville are once again asked to trust the state water agency and federal regulators. Residents fled with barely time to put on shoes last February when first-time...
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Daily Bucket: My New Year's Day training session for 2018
I decided to make the most of the sunny warm day that began the new year. I hiked a local trail that, in order to start, I had to overlook something I usually shunned. Then I paid attention to...
View ArticleFormer deputy arrested on weapons charges had 180 guns in his home -- 23 of...
In the quiet Butte County of California, a former deputy was amassing an arsenal. A former sheriff’s deputy who was arrested last week had more than 180 guns in his house and 23 of them were illegal,...
View ArticleThis is what it looks like when an entire California town is destroyed by...
Climate change presents itself in various ways across these United States. Devastating hurricanes, droughts, blizzards, and floods are pummeling communities from coast to coast, and it’s horrifying to...
View ArticleCamp Fire Remembrance 11/08 11:08 A.M.
One year since the Camp Fire started.Date Started11/08/18 6:33 AMDate Extinguished11/25/18 8:00AM18,804 Structures DestroyedResidential, Commercial and Other85 Fatalities153,335 acres were burned by...
View ArticleWestern States Petroleum Association Tops CA Lobbying Expenses with $8.8...
The Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA), the largest and most powerful corporate lobbying group in California, placed first in the annual lobbying “competition” in California in 2019 with $8.8...
View ArticlePG&E in 2 courts: pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter, starts to...
Admin note: We have edited this story upon specific written request of the copyright holder for the original source, whose policy is that excerpted material may not exceed 250 words.From...
View ArticleGroups file three lawsuits against Sacramento Valley groundwater plans
Chico, CA. In 2014, the Groundwater Sustainability Act was signed by Governor Jerry Brown to provide groundwater protection in California. But the same industrial agricultural barons are gaming the...
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