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Members of the Chico Police Department may get a 20% raise as the city council prepares to vote on a new budget today. Also, the town of Paradise will coordinate an emergency exercise on June 15 to simulate response actions during a wildfire or other disaster, and officials are investigating whether Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis was behind a flight that picked up asylum-seekers on the Texas border and flew them to California’s capital.

Allstate has announced it will no longer sell new home insurance policies in California following State Farm as the latest company to deem the state “uninsurable.” Also, health officials urge individuals to get the mpox vaccine ahead of Pride festivities, and Chico State renames Sutter Hall after an examination showed the building’s namesake mistreated Indigenous people.

As we close out April, a best-of conversation from Mother’s Day 2022. Can we ever get enough nurturing energy in the world? Enjoy!

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is monitoring the state's nascent wolf population after severe winter weather. Also, a university training program wants to increase diversity among medical students, plus California is the first in the world to begin phasing out diesel trucks.

Former Chico Enterprise-Record columnist Roger Aylworth died April 14, 2023. In this rebroadcast, Aylworth is joined by his wife, Susan Aylworth, also a writer.

Blue Dot investigates the concept of the Blue Economy, using ocean resources in a more responsible, sustainable way as being practiced in the small coastal town of Fort Bragg, California.

Chico State speaker celebrates neurodiversity. Plus a bill allowing state lawmakers to unionize and proposed legislation increasing penalties for human trafficking.

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Author Viorica Marian expands on the power of language, and NPR's Steve Drummond looks at how the Truman Committee investigated wartime corruption.

CalFire is reviewing public comments to make changes to its fire hazard severity zones map. Also, California Senator Dianne Feinstein returns to the Senate, and lawmakers are putting pressure on Gov. Newsom to increase childcare funding to the tune of a billion dollars.