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    • Fresno
      • Amid controversy, Fresno lawmakers OK state’s $1mil grant to Planned Parenthood
      • Progressive Kingsburg Councilwoman will not seek second term
      • Cox’s Federal indictment “vindicates Granite Park” nonprofit, Terance Frazier says.
      • Bredefeld, religious leaders push city to oppose Planned Parenthood grant
      • Thousands of Kaiser workers strike, shaking up appointments
    • Clovis
      • Suit: Valley students allege anti-communist, pro-life posters muzzled by college
      • Clovis Mayor Flores announces retirement, kickstarting changing of guard
      • Fresno Co. Grand Jury argues Clovis Police coming up short on diversified police force
      • Fresno law enforcement cracks down on violent criminals, “ghost guns”
      • Harris commits $1mil to Clovis Community Hospital for wound care
    • Bakersfield
      • Kern Co. lawmakers clear path for Mojave to launch “inland port” to aid supply chain
      • Bakersfield inmate escaped from re-entry facility, CDCR says.
      • Rural Calif. is helping reach Newsom’s green goals. Now, he wants an end-run around them.
      • Kern Co. term limits proposal shoots for fresh blood, new ideas
      • Bakersfield bakery owner heads to trial over faith-based objection to cakes for gay weddings
    • Modesto
      • Foster Farms demands property tax refund from Valley county
      • Stanislaus Co. approves new property tax agreement with cities
      • Modesto approves deal to launch sales tax measure for November ballot
      • Modesto mulling sales tax hike to provide budget boost
      • No Fly Zone: Valley city shoots down pitch to bring Bird scooters to town
    • Visalia/Tulare
      • Adventist Health, Anthem Blue Cross agree to extra time to negotiate
      • First case of Monkeypox found in Tulare County
      • Contract war between Anthem, Adventist Health raises blood pressure over health coverage
      • COVID costs send Valley hospital into first-ever, $11.2mil deficit
      • Visalia amps up efforts to combat illegal fireworks use
    • Hanford
      • Kings Co. halts proposed inflationary hike in building fees
      • Rural Calif. is helping reach Newsom’s green goals. Now, he wants an end-run around them.
      • Faraday Future, Hanford-based EV automaker, delays car launch amid cash woes
      • Adventist Health, Anthem Blue Cross agree to extra time to negotiate
      • Contract war between Anthem, Adventist Health raises blood pressure over health coverage
    • Madera
      • Kahn set to depart as Madera Co.’s economic development czar
      • ‘Evil’: Final member of 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping paroled
      • Popular Madera brewery destroyed in blaze
      • Homelessness is up in Fresno, Madera – but not on the streets. Here’s why.
      • Madera Co. greenlights permanent extension of road tax, Measure T
    • Merced
      • Merced eyes options to boost market rate, low-income housing availability
      • ‘It’s an opiate addiction’: Pushback on police forces Merced to punt safety tax extension
      • Skunkworks icon, F-117 stealth fighter, debuts at Castle Air Museum
      • Merced advances permanent renewal of transportation and public safety tax
      • Former Merced cop sentenced for union embezzlement scheme
    • Mariposa
      • Highway 140 reopens as fire officials gain grip on Yosemite-based Oak Fire
      • Washburn Fire grows as suppression ramps up, blaze 25% contained
      • Judge rejects environmentalists attempt to halt Sierra wildfire prevention efforts
      • One year after devastating Creek Fire, enviros seek to block efforts to prevent a repeat.
      • Yosemite to reopen Thursday with reservations
    • Modesto
      • Foster Farms demands property tax refund from Valley county
      • Stanislaus Co. approves new property tax agreement with cities
      • Modesto approves deal to launch sales tax measure for November ballot
      • Modesto mulling sales tax hike to provide budget boost
      • No Fly Zone: Valley city shoots down pitch to bring Bird scooters to town
    • Stockton
      • $6k trip to Stockton? Company pitches pricey river cruise between SF, Valley
      • Scanning issues bring ballot counting to a crawl in San Joaquin County
      • On eve of Calif. primary, San Joaquin Co. tackles ballot issues amid unexpected passing of elections chief
      • Stockton OKs new policy for cops’ use of military equipment
      • North Valley city joins opposition to 2022 initiative limiting local tax hikes
  • Topics
    • Politics
      • Progressive Kingsburg Councilwoman will not seek second term
      • Paper backed TJ Cox in 2018. Now it claims he “never passed the smell test” amid arrest
      • Fresno St. stadium tax gets a letter – E – and kicks off with plug for academics
      • GOP pushes TJ Cox indictment – by selling t-shirts of him behind bars
      • Salas softens ties with Cox after Fed indictment
    • Agriculture
      • Haaland hits the Valley with clear focus: Drought, Dems
      • Newsom rolls out new water plan. What’s in it?
      • As drought deepens, focus of Calif.’s chief water officials is elsewhere: on race.
      • Desert-based water agency eyes multi-million dollar deal to buy water out of Kings County
      • UFW starts 335-mile march to press for elimination of secret ballot union elections
    • Sports
      • First Top 25 rankings out for college football season. Where does Fresno St. stand?
      • Report: Valley Children’s naming rights deal to cost Fresno State millions
      • Fresno State kicks off fall camp with high expectations, familiar faces
      • Prandini, U.S. women deliver stunning 4×100 relay upset for world track crown
      • Haener top ‘Dog in Mountain West, five Bulldogs named to preseason All-MW team,
    • Education
      • Suit: Valley students allege anti-communist, pro-life posters muzzled by college
      • Report: Antifa-aligned Sacramento teacher paid $190k by district to resign
      • Push to confiscate cell phones at Fresno high school has parents, students up-in-arms
      • More sexual misconduct cases emerge at Fresno State
      • In wake of school attacks, Fresno school districts seek to beef up campus security
    • Business
      • Man stole $4.8mil from Valley-based tractor dealer. He blew $1mil on iPhone app game purchases.
      • Kahn set to depart as Madera Co.’s economic development czar
      • Flex Alert issued for Wednesday, Calif. grid operator announces.
      • Merced eyes options to boost market rate, low-income housing availability
      • Newsom pitches $1.4bil loan to keep Diablo Canyon running through 2035
    • COVID-19
      • Distilleries who rescued U.S. from COVID sanitizer shortage face FDA wrath, fines over production
      • Beverly Hills won’t enforce imminently-returning LA County mask mandate
      • CDC recommends Valley return to masking up. The data? Not so much.
      • Researchers find a new way to track COVID-19 waves: wastewater
      • Newsom tries boosting vax rates with Kern Co. swing for second booster
  • Calif. & Beyond
    • California
      • Man stole $4.8mil from Valley-based tractor dealer. He blew $1mil on iPhone app game purchases.
      • ‘Evil’: Final member of 1976 Chowchilla bus kidnapping paroled
      • Flex Alert issued for Wednesday, Calif. grid operator announces.
      • Newsom pitches $1.4bil loan to keep Diablo Canyon running through 2035
      • Calif. lawmakers kill bill that would fine social media firms for hooking kids
    • U.S.
      • Oakhurst man sentenced for pepper-spraying U.S. Capitol Police officer amid Jan. 6 breach
      • Distilleries who rescued U.S. from COVID sanitizer shortage face FDA wrath, fines over production
      • Biden hints at Federal gas tax holiday
      • McClintock flips on Ukraine stance following TV blowback
      • Ahead of Super Bowl, U.S. halts import of Mexican avocados over threat against inspector
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    • Commentary
      • As drought deepens, focus of Calif.’s chief water officials is elsewhere: on race.
      • Calif.’s great water experiments have failed. It’s time for real solutions.
      • Kern Co. term limits proposal shoots for fresh blood, new ideas
      • Calif. small businesses are struggling with a new achilles heel: the legal system
      • Meet the new pandemic crushing Calif.’s small businesses: PAGA abuse.
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Agriculture, View

Amid Valley’s pursuit of water, this endorsement rings like fire alarm

From Valley water to forest management, the NRDC has a leading role in creating a tinderbox and they’ve picked Cox to light the match.

Wayne Western, Jr.September 30, 2020, 5:42 pmSeptember 30, 2020 Comments Off on Amid Valley’s pursuit of water, this endorsement rings like fire alarm 8256
Agriculture, View

After delivering on Calif. water, Trump gets no respect from water execs

Trump delivered a master stroke on water. So why would the head of State Water Contractors publicly flip him the bird?

Wayne Western, Jr.September 14, 2020, 3:35 pmSeptember 14, 2020 Comments Off on After delivering on Calif. water, Trump gets no respect from water execs 8924
Agriculture, View

Newsom’s water plan previews a future Calif. that ignores history – at its peril

The Water Resilience Portfolio is a controlling mechanism to cover-up past agenda-driven failures and ensure zero accountability on many fronts.

Wayne Western, Jr.August 5, 2020, 12:20 pmAugust 5, 2020 Comments Off on Newsom’s water plan previews a future Calif. that ignores history – at its peril 17416
Fresno, View

Standing up to “schoolyard bully” Newsom is the only way

Coalinga City Councilman Adam Adkisson decries the “bullying power-trip” of the Newsom administration’s threats on the city’s coronavirus relief funds.

Adam AdkissonJuly 29, 2020, 8:29 amJuly 29, 2020 Comments Off on Standing up to “schoolyard bully” Newsom is the only way 4882
Agriculture, View

Facing needless obstruction from Newsom, Trump admin. focused on improving water supply for all Californians

Newsom “would rather jeopardize the state’s water supplies than work closely with the Trump administration,” the U.S. Interior Department’s Solicitor writes.

Daniel JorjaniJuly 23, 2020, 10:29 amJuly 23, 2020 Comments Off on Facing needless obstruction from Newsom, Trump admin. focused on improving water supply for all Californians 6640
Fresno, View

Lee Brand got it right by killing parks tax. Coronavirus proved it.

Brand has never been one for ball-spiking. But on defeating the financial quagmire of Fresno’s failed parks tax, Measure P, he should have been.

Alex TavlianJuly 1, 2020, 5:41 pmJuly 1, 2020 Comments Off on Lee Brand got it right by killing parks tax. Coronavirus proved it. 2926
Agriculture, View

Damming up water progress throws Calif.’s future into limbo

Very few people would have ever guessed we would need a massive effort to convince people that the ability to grow food is important.

Wayne Western, Jr.June 29, 2020, 11:02 amJune 29, 2020 Comments Off on Damming up water progress throws Calif.’s future into limbo 4786
Agriculture, View

How the Friant Water Authority recaptured control of its destiny to fix the Friant-Kern Canal

The Friant Water Authority has brought good, old fashioned taking of responsibility back into vogue with its approach to fixing the Friant-Kern Canal.

Wayne Western, Jr.June 23, 2020, 2:46 pmJune 25, 2020 Comments Off on How the Friant Water Authority recaptured control of its destiny to fix the Friant-Kern Canal 3741
Agriculture, View

Calif. officials deliver another “water-block” over Shasta Dam

The State of California revealed the latest trick up their sleeve in regards to slowing or stopping water delivery to millions of Californians.

Wayne Western, Jr.June 18, 2020, 10:34 amJune 18, 2020 Comments Off on Calif. officials deliver another “water-block” over Shasta Dam 3751
Fresno, View

It’s time for Fresno to get back to serious meetings – in person.

Zoombombing came for the Fresno City Council and, with budget cuts on the agenda, it’s a sign that Fresno’s Council members need to get back to the dais.

Alex TavlianJune 9, 2020, 1:15 pmJune 9, 2020 Comments Off on It’s time for Fresno to get back to serious meetings – in person. 2152

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