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California Schools Can’t Keep Pace with Utility Bills. Lawmakers Must Fix New Solar Rules.

Serving as a school board president requires a deep dedication to ensuring districts have the resources needed to provide every student with...

California Schools Can’t Keep Pace with Utility Bills. Lawmakers Must Fix New Solar Rules.

Serving as a school board president requires a deep dedication to ensuring districts have the resources needed to provide every student with...

Opinion

/ 16 hours ago

CA Restaurants Shouldn’t Be Shocked That ‘Junk Fees’ Ban Applies to Them

Last Friday, a friend and I met at a chain restaurant in Sacramento for our customary weekly lunch. Both of us ordered $16 plates of Mexican...

Opinion

/ 2 days ago

CA Limits How Police Respond to Protests. Why Were Bean Bag Shotguns Used at UCLA?

The pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA last week became the latest campus tinderbox to erupt. As the police response unfurled before our eye...

Opinion

/ 3 days ago

After Losing Population in Recent Years, California Grows Again. Is That a Good Thing?

After Jerry Brown became governor of California for the first time nearly a half-century ago, he declared that the state had entered “an era...

Opinion

/ 4 days ago

Lagging Revenue Drives California Budget Deficit as Deadline Nears

As the June 15 constitutional deadline for enacting a 2024-25 state budget approaches, the good news for Gov. Gavin Newsom is that all-impor...

Opinion

/ 7 days ago

New Battlegrounds Emerge in California’s Political Guerrilla War Over Housing

At least once a month a new front opens in California’s political guerrilla war between state and local officials over housing. Dan Walter...

Housing

/ 1 week ago

As California Cracks Down on Groundwater, What Happens to Fallowed Farmland?

A couple of weeks ago, the California Water Resources Control Board put five agricultural water agencies in Kings County on probation for fa...

Opinion

/ 1 week ago

More California High School Students Want Career Training. How the State Is Helping

A school without steers? Unthinkable, said Mason Tucker, a 10th-grader at Madera South High School north of Fresno. Carolyn Jones CalMatt...

Education

/ 1 week ago

California Legislation Wants to Uncover the ‘Hidden Homicides’ of Domestic Violence

A state senator says there’s a “hidden homicide” epidemic of killers making domestic violence murders look like suicides or accidents. Her b...

Crime

/ 2 weeks ago

Key Questions About CA Budget Deficit Unanswered as Deadlines Loom

The must-follow website this month among California’s politicians, bureaucrats, and interest group lobbyists is the “California Personal Inc...

Opinion

/ 2 weeks ago

Local Education /

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‘Double-Digit’ Improvement, 100-Day Plan: FUSD Interim Chief Her Outlines Her Plans and Goals

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Armenian President Tours Fresno, Visits William Saroyan Gravesite and Museum

Local Education /

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Fresno City College Names Dean Medallion Winners and Commencement Speaker

Politics 101 /

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Predicting What Dyer Will Say During His State of the City Address

LA Dodgers /

12 hours ago

Teoscar Hernández’s 3 RBIs Propel Dodgers to 7th Straight Win

Crime /

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Shohei Ohtani’s Former Interpreter Pleads Guilty in Sports Betting Case

Sports /

12 hours ago

Benson Honored Again as Bulldogs Head to NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships

Politics /

13 hours ago

Merced County Leaders Vote to Close Two Fire Stations: ‘We’re Moving into Hard Times’

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Central Octane /

16 hours ago

Proud to Be an American: The Oft-Forgotten Red, White & Blue 1972 Fords

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Wired Wednesday: Mental Health Access And Medicaid’s Exclusions

Local Education /

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Fresno Area Elementary School Teams With Quiq Labs for STEAM Exploration

Politics /

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Watch: Israel’s Oversized Influence in American Elections

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‘Double-Digit’ Improvement, 100-Day Plan: FUSD Interim Chief Her Outlines Her Plans and Goals

Armenian President Tours Fresno, Visits William Saroyan Gravesite and Museum

Fresno City College Names Dean Medallion Winners and Commencement Speaker

Predicting What Dyer Will Say During His State of the City Address

Teoscar Hernández’s 3 RBIs Propel Dodgers to 7th Straight Win

Shohei Ohtani’s Former Interpreter Pleads Guilty in Sports Betting Case

Benson Honored Again as Bulldogs Head to NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships

Merced County Leaders Vote to Close Two Fire Stations: ‘We’re Moving into Hard Times’

Your PG&E Bill Could Be Going Up. Vote Is Thursday.

Chris Tomlin, Boots in the Park, and Sandra Bernhard Headline Mother’s Day Weekend Options

California Schools Can’t Keep Pace with Utility Bills. Lawmakers Must Fix New Solar Rules.

California Schools Can’t Keep Pace with Utility Bills. Lawmakers Must Fix New Solar Rules.

/ 16 hours ago

CA Restaurants Shouldn’t Be Shocked That ‘Junk Fees’ Ban Applies to Them

/ 2 days ago

CA Limits How Police Respond to Protests. Why Were Bean Bag Shotguns Used at UCLA?

/ 3 days ago

After Losing Population in Recent Years, California Grows Again. Is That a Good Thing?

/ 4 days ago

Lagging Revenue Drives California Budget Deficit as Deadline Nears

/ 7 days ago

New Battlegrounds Emerge in California’s Political Guerrilla War Over Housing

/ 1 week ago

As California Cracks Down on Groundwater, What Happens to Fallowed Farmland?

/ 1 week ago

More California High School Students Want Career Training. How the State Is Helping

/ 1 week ago

California Legislation Wants to Uncover the ‘Hidden Homicides’ of Domestic Violence

/ 2 weeks ago

Key Questions About CA Budget Deficit Unanswered as Deadlines Loom

/ 2 weeks ago

‘Double-Digit’ Improvement, 100-Day Plan: FUSD Interim Chief Her Outlines Her Plans and Goals

Armenian President Tours Fresno, Visits William Saroyan Gravesite and Museum

Fresno City College Names Dean Medallion Winners and Commencement Speaker

Predicting What Dyer Will Say During His State of the City Address

Teoscar Hernández’s 3 RBIs Propel Dodgers to 7th Straight Win

Shohei Ohtani’s Former Interpreter Pleads Guilty in Sports Betting Case

Benson Honored Again as Bulldogs Head to NCAA Women’s Water Polo Championships

Merced County Leaders Vote to Close Two Fire Stations: ‘We’re Moving into Hard Times’

Proud to Be an American: The Oft-Forgotten Red, White & Blue 1972 Fords

Wired Wednesday: Mental Health Access And Medicaid’s Exclusions

Fresno Area Elementary School Teams With Quiq Labs for STEAM Exploration

Watch: Israel’s Oversized Influence in American Elections

Turbocharged Titans: How the Porsche 934 and 935 Dominated the Track for 50 Years

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