A group of Hanford residents has filed recall papers against Hanford City Council Member Francisco Ramirez. The group has 90 days from May 19 to collect 800 signatures in district D. Ramirez was elected in November of 2014. Hanford resident Skip Athey served Ramirez recall papers before the city council meeting started on May 16. […]
Attorneys for Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) are back in court as the trial between the hospital and its former medical executive committee (MEC) continues in its second week – after nearly a month’s break. Lawyers for the former MEC and medical staff claim that the move to replace them was unlawful and retaliatory, while […]
Tulare Regional Medical Center’s first full medical staff election is underway, the Tulare Local Healthcare District Board of Directors were told Wednesday. Dr. Ronald Ostrom, the chief of staff for TRMC’s current medical executive committee, hailed the election as the first in which all members of the medical staff were able to vote during his […]
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 […]
Farmersville has been undergoing a lot of roadwork on its main streets. Included is a bus turnaround on South Farmersville Blvd., along with a bus stop intended for Visalia Transit Route 12 buses to accommodate seniors from a local apartment complex. Currently, Route 12 moves along Caldwell Ave. from Mooney Blvd. in Visalia, and further […]
Sources close to Sean Doherty reported that he was fired as Assemblyman Mathis’ Chief of Staff on Friday, May 5. Doherty told two sources that he was fired, not by Mathis himself, but by the Assembly Rules Committee. Mathis was elected to California Assembly District 26 in November, 2014. The Assembly Rules Committee allegedly rarely […]
The Visalia Times-Delta will now be managed by the Executive Editor of the Redding Record Searchlight, the newspaper announced earlier this month. The new editor, Silas Lyons, will take a “regional editing” role for North Central California. The new announcement means that Lyons, a Redding resident, will oversee operations at the Visalia Times-Delta, Salinas Californian and Redding […]
Despite what the president may say, DREAMers are not immune to being picked up by ICE agents. On February 14, a CNN report on the detention of 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina in Tacoma, Washington following his arrest in his father’s home, observed that “The case raises questions about what it could mean” for the 750,000 […]
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 […]