Every year the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) conducts a public opinion survey to gage how Visalians feel about their city. This year’s survey was conducted in April and results have recently been made available. The Citizens Advisory Committee uses an all-volunteer force to collect the approximately 300 responses. According to Eric Frost, deputy city manager, […]
The Family Food Freedom Act – The rest of the story Let’s just say the painful truth out loud about the Food Freedom Act. A wise man told me during the Tulare County Supervisors’ meeting that Visalia could have avoided this whole initiative process if they had just given Gingi Freeman a medical exemption. When […]
A public hearing was held during the July 7 Tulare County Supervisors meeting concerning the Papich Construction Asphalt Batch Plant Project. The asphalt plant has been operating out of a Public Works Staging Area in Goshen at Betty Dr. and Highway 99 on a temporary permit. The temporary permit was approved in 2013 so the […]
Advocates for the Urban Farmers for Food Freedom (UFFF) filed their paperwork with the City of Visalia clerk’s office on July 6. Called the Family Food Freedom Act, the initiative will put to a vote if Visalians want to allow small farm animals in residential areas. The measure would allow up to 6 chickens and […]
A year ago the Visalia City Council fined homeowner, Abigail Trevino, $29,500. The fine was for code violations, late fees, excessive police calls to her house for 10 years and a SWAT Team raid February, 2014. The cost to the city was approximately $15,000 and the late fees added up to approximately $14,300. At that […]
A public hearing was held during the July 7 Tulare County Supervisors meeting concerning the Papich Construction Asphalt Batch Plant Project. The asphalt plant has been operating out of a Public Works Staging Area in Goshen at Betty Dr. and Highway 99 on a temporary permit. The temporary permit was approved in 2013 so the […]
Part two in the series of “who filled in Mussel Slough” was projected to be the City of Hanford’s response to the running controversy. When the Valley Voice reached out to Darlene Mata, Community Development Director, she politely said, “the city has no comment.” Several hypotheses surround the question of who ordered the back hoe […]
The Urban Farmers for Food Freedom (UFFF) has finalized their initiative and will be submitting their paperwork to the City of Visalia next week. The Food Freedom initiative states that a maximum of 12 food-producing animals will be allowed per residence. Those 12 animals could be composed of no more than eight fowl and four […]
Eat your vegetables If you always skip over the articles about the newest, hottest trade agreement here is your opportunity for a painless recap. Consider it eating your political vegetables. Just in case you thought you were always forgetting the acronym for the trade pact, you weren’t. There are three of them, TPP, TPA and […]
An important draining basin and environmentally sensitive area on the west side of Hanford, a remnant of Mussel Slough, has mysteriously been filled in. Those responsible for filling in the slough have not yet been identified. Robin Mattos, a founding member of the Hanford Environmental Awareness Team (HEAT), noticed a backhoe in the area in […]