Back in 2006, when Daniel Hernandez was 10 years old, his family’s version of the American dream started to come true. His father was a migrant worker born in Mexico, and for a time his mother worked the fields beside him. As their children were born–Daniel, now 21, has two sisters, 20 and 17, and […]
The city of Lindsay may finally escape the financial trap its been in for most of the last decade–but the margin is razor thin, and a few votes that could swing the decision remain to be counted. On June 6, voters in the town of 13,000-plus just managed to approve Measure O, a 1% increase […]
Tulare’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) will give Colony Energy a third break on the rent for its 20-year lease of city land but wont reopen negotiations to sell the company gas collected at the city’s waste treatment facility. Representatives of Colony have called the gas purchase essential to getting their larger project–a $25 million […]
By all accounts, Dr. Tom Drilling–an icon in Tulare for the better part of a century who died last month at the age of 96–lived a life that made a difference. Whether he was in his home or his dental office, in his church or at large in the world, his family and friends remember […]
The city of Visalia will pay an undisclosed amount to the survivors of two men killed by police in October of 2012 to settle a federal wrongful death suit. Late on the night of October 26, 2012, 19-year-old Eduardo Maduena and 22-year-old Ruben Molina, both Earlimart residents, were shot to death in a dirt field […]
Congressman Devin Nunes may be in some seriously hot water. With an ethics probe looking into his handling of classified documents, calls for him to resign his position as Intel Committee chair from both sides of the aisle, and cries from constituents for his attention, Nunes has gone quiet. That roaring silence is leading to […]
A stalled bio-gas project will get at least one more review from Tulare’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU)despite the Board’s denying the company behind the project a second 12-month discount on its rent. Instead of another year of reduced payments–at a loss of some $53,000 for the city–Colony Energy Partners received a one-month reprieve on […]
Tulare again has a full Board of Public Utilities (BPU), and it’s already at work. Thomas Griesbach, with the unanimous support of the City Council, now fills the final seat on the five-member BPU. The BPU oversees waste removal and treatment, as well as awarding multi-million-dollar contracts with the city’s energy producing partners, a subject […]
Worries over spending too much may keep the city of Tulare from going after a new source of economic development funding. At its meeting April 18, the City Council decided to let staff at City Hall find out if any areas in the city qualify for a new state program that returns a portion of […]
Congressman Devin Nunes (R-22) may be in some seriously hot water, and the embattled, beleaguered lawmaker is facing what could be his first serious challenger during the 2018 election cycle. Russian Investigation Nunes, chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has been in the national political spotlight since late March, when he visited […]