An enthusiastic pro-goat rally took place in front of Visalia’s City Hall before the May 4 City Council meeting. After the rally, participants entered the chambers to speak during public comment. At issue was the city’s ordinance on household pets. Many Visalia residents came to the meeting to encourage the council members to change the […]
An Adoring Fan I rarely get feedback on Political Fix, so I was happy when a reader finally took the time to send me a personal email. It was Wayne Millies from the Whitlatch Group. He said, “It’s quite clear you’re a progressive liberal hack from your previous columns; however, you’ve outdone yourself this time […]
At the April 7 Tulare County Board of Supervisors meeting, Jean Rousseau, county administrative officer, presented the county’s mid-term budget. The General Fund Fiscal Outlook for 2015-16 looks cautiously positive as the county is steadily recovering from the Great Recession. Rousseau attributed Tulare County’s positive financial position to its conservative approach to spending and saving […]
On April 6 the Visalia City Council held a marathon city council meeting that included several public hearings, increased developer’s impact fees and rejected a change to a city ordinance. The meeting took place at the convention center in anticipation of larger-than-normal crowds for the public hearing about dividing the city into voting districts. That […]
Tulare County Planning Commission met on April 8 to continue the public hearing and consider the settlement progress made between CEMEX and the neighbors of its Stillwell mine whose wells have gone dry. Mike Spata, Director of the Resource Management Agency (RMA), started the hearing by informing the commissioners that the lawyers were present to […]
At the Tulare County Supervisors’ meeting on April 7, the supervisors voted on sending a letter of support to Mathis’ assembly bill 954. The bill establishes a pilot program that will provide low interest loans or grants to private residences whose wells have gone dry. Up until now, all the funding has been earmarked for […]
During a Visalia City Council work session on April 6, council discussed initiating a zoning amendment to allow keeping chickens within city limits. Keeping chickens in residential zones is not presently allowed in Visalia, except in the Rural Residential and Agricultural Zone districts. This issue is addressed in a variety of ways throughout the State. […]
Six things you didn’t know about Marco Rubio Well finally we have some officially declared presidential candidates. The first to announce was Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, then Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Hilary Clinton and now Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Neurosurgeon Ben Carson has announced that he is definitely going to announce, so we have that […]
At the March 24 Tulare County Supervisors’ meeting a group of concerned citizens spoke out during public comment about the condition of Mooney Grove Park. The group, affiliated with The Real Mooney Grove Project, gathered before hand to protest in front of the chambers. Amy Dickenson from Visalia said she felt that the park, if […]
At the March 24th Tulare County Supervisor meeting Kevin Elliot, forest supervisor for Sequoia and Kings National Parks, was invited to speak about the condition of the parks. According to The Fresno Bee, “A massive die-off of pine trees in the southern Sierra Nevada caused by beetles attacking drought-stressed trees is turning forests brown and […]