We’re calling it now - The City Council Majority is going to move forward with a district map that splits up communities to give extremist right wing incumbents an unfair advantage.

CALL TO ACTION: Email City Council asap or show up to speak this Tuesday evening! Voice your support for good district maps that keep communities whole, and speak out against gerrymandered maps.

Details on the settlement agreement for the civil rights lawsuit against the city.

Corruption at the Chico City Clerk’s Office

The Washington DC-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is partnering with the ACLU and others to draw attention to the human and civil rights violations taking place in the US as well as review relevant law, and Chico is the city they have chosen as an exemplar of poor leadership and bad policy leading to these violations.

While City Manager Mark Orme, City Clerk Debbie Presson, Police Chief Matt Madden all received raises, as did all Chico Police, regular city staff haven’t received a raise in 11 YEARS…

ACLU issues scathing report; Chico cited as a case study for violating the civil rights of the unhoused. NY Times opinion and wage gaps

A spooky tale of the local cabal turning our city on itself.

Since the defeat of the Otterson Drive Extension in 2001, the Barber neighbors in Southwest Chico have worked with the City of Chico to establish and maintain a Creekside greenway park along Comanche Creek. (Hegan Lane Industrial Park owners had tried to get the city to build them a Creekside entrance to the industrial park and failed due to a hard won referendum that pitted money against people power.)

Tell the Chico City Council they must adopt the Climate Action Plan Update.

Let the spin begin. Now that a federal judge has forced the Chico City Council to comply with the law, the right-wing PAC is springing into action to attempt to rehabilitate their crew. Of course, what they are saying is again not true…