After a three-year investigation, the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) found former Hanford City Council member Francisco Ramirez in violation of Campaign Finance rules on five counts and fined him $1075. The investigation was the result of a 116-page complaint filed in 2015 by former Hanford Planning Commissioner Danny Escobar and substantiated with testimonies […]
Minutes after Mayor David Ayers praised the Carnegie Museum for saving the historic bell tower from certain destruction at the old firehouse, the Hanford City Council voted to force the museum to remove it. At Hanford’s August 21 city council meeting, the vote was 3-2 against permitting the museum to keep the structure in front […]
The Visalia City Council will be holding a special meeting to appoint incumbents Greg Collins, District 4, and Steve Nelsen, District 5, for the term ending in November, 2022. No other resident in Visalia filed to run for the city council in either of these districts for the November 6, 2018 election. The appointments may […]
Former teacher and community volunteer, Terry Sayre, has filed her paperwork to run for Tulare City Council Area 2. She will be running against independent consultant Alex Gutierrez. The seat is currently held by Maritsa Munoz who was appointed. Munoz is not running for re-election. The following is Terry Sayre in her own words. As […]
Dennis Mederos, an attorney, businessman, local farmer, and active member of the Tulare community has declared his candidacy for the District 4 Council seat for the City of Tulare. One other candidate, Chris Harrell, is currently running for the seat. “David Macedo has decided to not run again for City Council. With his encouragement, I’ve […]
The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Bakersfield Office is asking for the public’s opinion on a plan to open some 1.6 million acres of land in Central California to hydraulic fracturing–an oil and gas extraction method more commonly known as “fracking.” Environmentalists should definitely be very concerned the Bureau has started looking at fracking again, […]
Democratic Congressional candidate Andrew Janz held a meet-and-greet in Exeter on Thursday, August 9th, 2018. The event was held at a house near the outskirts of town. At around six o’clock, people began to flood into the home and took their seats. Chairs were brought in from the outside patio to accommodate the audience of […]
On April 26, 2017, Ramiro Huerta — according to a federal civil rights lawsuit filed on his behalf — was assaulted in a surprise attack by several deputies of the Tulare County Sheriff’s Department after he called for assistance to his rural Strathmore home. Now, more than a year after the incident, Huerta and his […]
A new draft ordinance document was distributed and discussed at the Tulare County Animal Services (TCAS) Advisory Committee meeting on August 9. The goal of the advisory committee is to update the county’s regulations concerning domestic animals and protect them within the unincorporated area of Tulare County. Copies of the draft ordinances and new standards […]
The verdict is in, everyone wants an Aquatic Center and confidence is high that grant money and naming rights could pay for most of the facility’s construction. The fly in the ointment is the likely $600,000-a-year tab for maintenance that grants don’t cover. The Aquatic Wellness Center Working Group, formed to research the feasibility of […]