I may be experiencing a Lupulin Threshold Shift.
I created a site that aggregates news for Chico area at chico.foundnews.com. It checks for updates either hourly or daily, depending on the source. It will continue to be a work in progress as I decide on news sources and more local news sites provide news feeds or easy to scrape web pages (and I need to make it look prettier). Local news source suggestions are appreciated.
I updating my "Reading" list (look to the right above "Powered By." I highly recommend Snow Crash, not so sure about Slaughterhouse-Five, and I think Censored 2006 is available for free online at Project Censored.