Most voters see the Assembly District 33 race as a battle between two Democrats and two Republicans, but after a candidates’ forum last Friday, it looked more like a contest between two generations: Boomers and Millennials. And — before Lindsay Mayor Hipolito Cerros stepped back from the race — a Gen Z candidate was […]
Editors note: This article was updated 12/23/23 at 12:15pm to reflect a statement by Assembly member Devon Mathis With no term limits in Congress, and State Assembly term limits set at 12 years, open seats in Sacramento and Washington DC are a rare commodity. But for the upcoming 2024 election, Tulare and Kern County voters […]
State and local authorities are preparing for massive flooding of the Tulare Lake Basin. Record amounts of snow blanket the watershed, and now a record spring runoff is being driven by a wave of unseasonably high temperatures. Officials – bearing the worst-case scenarios in mind – are imagining valley cities around the lake flooding, and […]
Rep. Connie Conway (CA-22) today introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to open up the Hetch Hetchy reservoir to recreational activities and to force the City of San Francisco to pay a fair price for its access to the reservoir’s water and power. Cosponsored by Representatives David Valadao (CA-21) and Tom McClintock (CA-4), […]
Do your eyes glaze over every time a campaign ad flashes across your screen about Proposition 27 or 26? Both sides have spent a combined $320 million to get your vote, but their ads don’t always paint an accurate or complete picture. Here is a more realistic synopsis. In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized […]
It isn’t obvious to the naked eye, but the San Joaquin Valley is sinking, and it’s slowly destroying key parts of the agricultural infrastructure as it goes. Each year, as farmers and ranchers pump water from the aquifer underlying the Valley to supply their crops, the water they remove leaves gaps in the miles-deep, sponge-like […]
Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig issued a statement Monday stating that he would announce his candidacy for California’s 5th Congressional District: The seat, which covers much of California Gold Country and key portions of the San Joaquin Valley, draws into portions of my Fresno County Supervisorial district near to my heart. Since I was elected […]
Authorities have identified and arrested the men they say are responsible for a triple homicide on the campus of Golden West High School on May 5, 2020, and in the process uncovered an alleged scheme to bring guns to Tulare County in exchange for Mexican methamphetamine and locally-grown cannabis. The arrests were announced by State […]
Former Assemblywoman Connie Conway announced last week she is running in the special election to replace Representative Devin Nunes, who retired from Congressional District 22 on January 3. Governor Gavin Newsom scheduled the special election for June 7, 2022, with the primary election happening on April 5. If no one receives over 50% of the […]
On December 9 the Department of Water Resources (DWR) took another important step toward protecting drinking water supplies by issuing correspondence letters to 27 Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs), warning GSAs that these plans will be deemed incomplete when final assessments are issued at the end of January. These GSAs span across the San Joaquin Valley, […]