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A shooter opened fire in a classroom building at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola on Friday morning in an attack that left four people dead, including the assailant, and multiple people wounded....

Recently, a few Trump haters scribbled about the President. Wanda Burleson's ears are offended by Trump's use of "vulgar" words and swearing. She suggested that we query any middle school teacher for an explanation for his occasional use o...

As a founding member of Chico Friends on the Street, I appreciate the E-R's recent coverage of our nearly four-year Sunday protest in City Plaza. Our point in being on the plaza is not well understood: We don't focus on "solutions" to home...

The House Intelligence Committee has investigated the Ukraine matter and has issued a report finding that President Trump "placed his own personal and political interests above the national interests of the United States," for which, it concludes,...

A Southern California woman punched a mountain lion Thursday and tried to pry its jaws open to save her dog from an attack in her backyard, officials said....

The Trump administration finalized a rule Wednesday that will cut off food stamps to roughly 688,000 American adults by requiring states to enforce work requirements....

Airbnb is taking more steps to crack down on parties and nuisance guests in the wake of a Halloween shooting at an Airbnb rental in a San Francisco suburb....

Gov. Gavin Newsom blamed the Trump administration for bureaucratic delays....

Chico City Council, be bold, make a real difference. Don't just ban flavored tobacco products. Ban ALL tobacco products. Tobacco kills young people and old people. It's time somebody took a stand and showed fortitude. Choose human life over tax do...

Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi have done more than anyone could have ever thought possible to convince voters, including Democrats, to re-elect President Trump. A landslide victory is now almost certain. Schiff and Pelosi do a lot of things backwards. They ...

Replying to Gregory Ghica's Opinion page letter (E-R, 11/30): Greg focuses on the results of a Trump impeachment, and he is probably correct in his assessment. However, the House Democrats are motivated by principle, feeling that Trump has committed a...

No one has debased the civil discourse in this country more than President Trump. His is the profanity presidency, full of four-letter denunciations of his enemies and earthy dismissals of allegations lodged against him. Trump's latest bout of verbal ...

OROVILLE — Much to the dismay of the council majority, the city of Oroville took the first step toward creating district-based elections Tuesday night. Under threat of a lawsuit, the Oroville City Council voted 5-1-1, passing the resolution of inten...

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For my Republican friends who say Democrats are "sore losers" and are just trying to overturn the "will of the people" by impeaching Donald Trump, let's look at the facts. Yes, Trump won the electoral college in 2016. (He solicited and...

CHICO -- A small earthquake struck Chico early Wednesday morning....

Every other week, California Hope counselors Alejandra Flores and Bianka Norton meet with a handful of Spanish-speaking families who lost homes in the Camp Fire to connect them to recovery-related resources they did not know about because of the language ...

WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Warren was supposed to be the thinking person's Bernie Sanders, impeccably progressive but with realistic arithmetic connecting aspirations to resources. Then came her explanation of how she would finance "Medicare for...

Paul Manafort was Trump's campaign manager when he delivered the necessary delegates to secure his nomination. When Manafort's foreign ties became a political liability, Trump stood by him; he later tweeted, "Paul came into the campaign very l...

They've wanted it since they were five or six years old. The opportunity to put on the green and gold and play for the Bobcats in Northern Section championship game. Tomorrow night, senior running back Lukas Hartley and the Bobcats will lace up agains...

CHICO — The Pleasant Valley High football team has anxiously waited 29 days to get another shot at crosstown rival Chico High. Since falling to Chico High 20-10 in the Almond Bowl on Nov. 1, the Vikings have been determined to get back to the champi...

Trump-haters are in for a very rude awakening. They condescendingly overlook something so obvious that only a liberal can miss it: America elected Donald because we are tired of your groupthink that says gender is a choice, that men can set women's sp...

Tom Neill's letter of Nov. 26 said in part "... a letter expressed an opinion that the E-R promotes a political bias in its publication." The intent of my letter was not meant to suggest political bias on the part of the E-R. I wrote that thre...

My name is Carmen Aranda Stone. I am Mayor Randall Stone's mother. I was born in Nogales, a town on the Arizona/Mexico border. My parents, Randall's grandparents were born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My first langua...

For many students over the past decades, going to college was a means of acquiring knowledge to make a living. No longer is that the case. For some ridiculous reason, college has gone from a place to acquire knowledge, to a political war. This is not righ...

Einstein's theory, if you go out into space in a straight line, you will return to the point or origin. Therefore, outer space is a sphere. In the beginning, the Big Bang explosion occurred, sending all the mass in all directions out into space in a s...

To borrow a quote from "The Godfather," "Just when I thought that I was out, they pull me back in." I fully commiserate with readers who are tired of seeing my letters in this space. But every time I resolve to take a break, a Trump suppor...

Only in America: can unemployment be at 50-year highs, yet the mainstream media says it's terrible. Only in America: can the average median income class have more money to spend, yet the mainstream media says middle income Americans are suffering. Onl...

To punk: to trick or deceive someone and make a fool of them. From Donald Trump's onset upon the political stage, he has used deception as a means to rile and cohere an unhappy American substrata who feel they been left behind economically and ideolog...

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Snow temporarily shut down part of Interstate 80 north of Lake Tahoe, near the Nevada-California line....

Raiders need to figure out a way to contain Patrick Mahomes and Chiefs' passing attack to have a chance in Kansas City on Sunday....

Bidwell Park Golf Course Yumiko Hankins shot 95 to take low gross in the first flight of the Bidwell Park Women's Golf Club weekly tournament. The game was "Even Holes", counting only the even number holes and subtracting one-half a player'...

All those folks who have been saying for years that California housing and taxes are too expensive for most Americans to move here, take note: The newest survey of Americans aged 45 or more, those who can be expected to retire in the next two decades, sho...

The other day, a letter expressed an opinion that the E-R promotes a political bias in its publication. The letter particularly referenced the number of letters printed reflecting left-wing, Trump hating viewpoints. I disagree. The editor, to my recollect...

After watching much of this week's public impeachment hearings and the latest Democratic presidential debates, I have to ask: Will the five Dem Senators running to unseat Trump be open minded? I bet not. For the uninitiated, should the House vote to i...

Carl Peterson's letter of Nov. 20 had a final sentence worthy of repeating, "Out of partisan zeal Democrats have needlessly become our fiercest war mongers." That statement surprised me since his opening paragraph said "...I have never onc...

We are in the middle of one of the major events in the history of our country - the possible impeachment of the President of the United States. The Democrats say he used his powers for political gains and the Republicans say he didn't. We'll have ...

Here is a little mild incoming for Robert Souders' Chico letter, 11-14-2019. Thanks for not expanding on the most glorious chief's most excellent military service. I've never heard of anyone 4-F with bone spurs, have you? I wasn't thrilled...

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Yes, President Donald J. Trump should be impeached and removed from office. He is a cancer on the body politic, a malignant contagion ripping through the civic fabric, a danger to democratic institutions. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies, espec...

HIT — Kudos to the Chico Police Department for at least trying to rein-in the epidemic of youth vaping. That sounds like a bit of hyperbole, but it's hard not to characterize a 78 percent increase in vaping by high school students in just a year...

The Golden State Warriors were forced to evacuate the Utah Jazz arena due to a bomb threat at a nearby restaurant....

Hillary Clinton said supporters of her opponent, our current President Donald Trump, were in a basket of deplorables. Several local Opinion page contributors are admitted Trump haters and cannot understand why we "Deplorables"; voted for him and in...

CHICO — First Amendment rights were on full display, outside and inside the Chico State Bell Memorial Union. After a week full of rising tensions and intense verbal altercations on campus, stemming from political divisiveness and differing mindsets ...

I feel sorry for the men and women who work for PG&E. They are getting a bad rap because of the pathetic management at PG&E headquarters. Their corporate bosses are all about making as much money as possible, period. They paid a million dollars in moving ...

It's been almost four and a half years since Mr. and Mrs.Trump descended from the escalator and announced he was running. From that day on, for the first time in the history of our nation, a private citizen, Donald Trump, got more press coverage than ...

"Democratic Party Takes Over America in Coup!" Is this the headline that the Democratic Party wants to put on every newspaper in America? You bet it is. The proof is there on any TV channel or radio station that stands for our Constitutional Bill ...

Let's hope Winston Churchill's comment applies again: "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing after they have tried everything else." Single payer dominates in modern countries because it's vastly more cost-effecti...

I disclose I am a Democrat; my father would not let me be otherwise. In my 80 years I have never once voted Republican, and I intend to leave this world with my perfect record intact. Nonetheless I do not think Donald Trump should be impeached. He is a di...