Highlights and lowlights from the news of the week

Punch – Several hundred people appeared in the social security office in Chico for May, and dozens more did the same in Oroville.

A few weeks earlier, a lot appreciated the Esplanade to more than 1,000 and showed himself against the policy of Trump administration.

Once again this week Chicoans met in the city center and enjoyed the Thursday evening market. A few days earlier, hundreds gathered in the Chico High Baseball Field as a fundraising campaign to help Casey Smyth, a former Panthers' outstanding person who faces some medical challenges.

And when you spoke of the ball field, there was a large amount last weekend for the commitment of Chico Peppers Field.

We had a good participation in city council meetings and various advisory committees, which range from growth to the newly founded committee for homelessness.

Where do we go?

Our citizens appear.

Those of us who have lived elsewhere know that this is often an exception to the rule these days. Too many cities in California and elsewhere have turned into places where people go to sleep – and not much more. The city squares are calm if they exist at all.

But not here. Regardless of growth or division or partisan nature of many meetings, one that nobody can deny about our citizens (and our readers): they take care of it. This leads to a sense of community, and we are blessed that the same sense of community still feels largely as decades ago.

This “hit” is for everyone who can do it if they simply appear. (And we hope that you are again for our 50th annual banquet for Chico Sports Hall of Fame and Senior Athlete who is May 13th.

MISS – We were glad to see that David Halimi's buildings in Main and East Second Street are made. (And the image of the newly installed balcony is indeed noticeable and offers another fantastic viewpoint for our beautiful city center.)

However, we are still no longer understandable how this affected a six -year project in which Chico was left with a painful eyesore over such a longer period of time. With all the reasons, from covid to approved problems, the residents and visitors remained on two sides of a building in the heart of the city center on empty holes (later with boards).

In order to put it in the right light, three cohorts of graduates of the state of Chico have never seen our city center in a different way.

We like the plan and welcome Halimi's vision to “restore the building as it looked with these beautiful, high windows, and then take the opportunity to bring some apartments in the city center.” It is a vision that took too long. Let's hope that it will finally become a reality.

Punch -We are glad to see that PG & E relaxes his commitment to bring cables into the ground in fire -prone areas. As we have reported this week, PG & E will be 12 miles of lines in the Forest Ranch Region this year. Another 11 miles are planned for 2026. Another four miles in the region are strengthened by updating the infrastructure.

We find that the supply company also makes greater efforts to keep the public up to date-and that they understand the well-deserved distrust and the skepticism of people. (Your television and radio advertising do a good job, although the fact that some of the participants read CUE cards reduces the effect.)

We agree with Carter Cobb, the inhabitant of Forest Ranch, who told us that he was happy to hear that the work was done, but “it should have been underground years ago.”

At least now it happens at a pace that we have not seen in the past. We are grateful for that.

MISS – The legislation could soon come for the 145% tariffs of President Trump in China, since the programs to the west coast drop faster than the survey of most politicians.