I offered to change my letter for Melissa Daugherty – I offered to pose my charges to the school district as questions. That’s called “opinion,” but Daugherty charges I am spreading “fake news,” and would not print my letter without editing it by about half.
She wouldn’t even look at the stuff I’d found online, nor would she do her own investigating. JB called it right on the nose in his comment to my last post, so I stole his words and wrote a new letter.
Chico Unified issued $126 million in school bonds between 1998 and 2012, built new facilities at both high schools, but the questionable portables are still standing. Why is the editor surprised? As claimed in this latest bond campaign, Chico schools still contain asbestos and are non-compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990. The district promised to upgrade computer labs back in 2012, claims made again in the 2016 campaign.
Last year CUSD spent roughly a million dollars suing Chico State to keep the college from making public e-mails sent through the college server by Chico Unified staff and board members. What were they hiding? I suspect the district is hiding information from the public, but the editor would neither investigate the evidence for herself nor let me include it in my letter.
The News and Review has launched a “foundation” to ask funding from the community ” to inform, engage and empower citizens”. Apparently the editor believes that is a special category of journalism that her publication doesn’t have the time or wherewithal to pursue, so she throws up her hands and endorses the bond.
I got the boldface remark from JB – thanks JB, you nailed it. We have no real journalists in this town, we have propagandists.
Chico Taxpayers Association 
How many begging sites is Daugherty running?
https://connect.clickandpledge.com/Organization/IndependentJournalismFund/campaign/IJF33705
Wow, I had no idea she had so many hands out.
http://nvcf.org/fund/chico-news-review-foundation/