On national news outlets
“Same old, same old here in Redding, California. Please, world, look away. We are not ready for prime time or prying eyes.”
Chamberlain, 64, has embraced the contrarian’s mantle, while other media in the Upper Sacramento River Valley have staked out more neutral terrain. At times it feels to the late-blooming journalist like she is fighting for the very soul of her hometown of Redding, as friends worry about her safety and even a few relatives confess they have canceled their subscriptions.
“I can’t think of anyone in the North State who is as fearless in addressing issues that people have a hard time thinking about or talking about as Doni Chamberlain,” said Doug Mudford, a prominent attorney who is also an advertiser and occasional columnist for A News Cafe. “She asks the right questions, and she is tenacious. And then Doni just sticks her nose right out there and says, ‘This is how it is.’”
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We made it. We survived 2020. Remember this time last year, and the novelty of that clever sounding 2020? Remember how blissfully innocent we were, unaware of the pandemic train heading our way that would soon derail life as we knew it?
It’s behind us, sort of. The bad news is we still have some unmistakable unpleasant remnants of 2020 clinging to us, like pieces of something nasty that hitched a ride on the soles of our shoes after leaving a gas station bathroom.
The good news is now have the benefit of 2020 hindsight, and we’re walking in the right direction, slipping away from 2020 and on the path toward 2021, and with it, all the hope, promise and opportunity that any new year brings.