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Gallagher's bill could void referendum blocking Valley's Edge

Gallagher’s bill could void referendum blocking Valley’s Edge

As District 3 assemblyman, James Gallagher introduced AB 2676
A few months before stepping down from the California State Assembly, Republican James Gallagher introduced a bill that could overturn a 2024 citizen-led referendum in Chico. Voters blocked the controversial Valley’s Edge development in that referendum. The bill, Assembly Bill 2676, now in the state Senate, has bipartisan support, largely because California has a serious shortage of affordable housing, and …

ChicoSol recognized for ‘solutions journalism’

Yucheng Tang’s 2025 report on Butte County’s mental health diversion program “is a great example of solutions journalism,” according to the Society for Features Journalism (SFJ) which awarded the ChicoSol reporter third place in its national feature series competition. A SFJ judge said Tang’s two-part series explaining how the program provides some defendants a second chance at a future free from convictions or criminal records “features terrific reporting that covers multiple angles.”

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