An expert on the nation's sports industry has confirmed what we've known about the rent that the Fresno Grizzlies pay to use the city-owned Chukchansi Park. It is one of the highest stadium rents in Triple-A baseball and the Grizzlies operate in
Thumbs up to 100 years of historic photos by Claude C. "Pop" Laval. Pop Laval was a commercial photographer who took more than 100,000 pictures, aerial photos and films of Fresno from 1911 until his death in 1966. The Pop Laval Foundation will c
If the Florez and Parra families didn't hate each other so much, next year's legislative elections in the San Joaquin Valley would be boring. But now the chief instigators in the feud, state Sen. Dean Florez and former Assembly Member Nicole Par
Immigration activists and Hispanic groups are demanding that President Obama deliver on his promised comprehensive package of immigration reform.
WASHINGTON -- Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
Mark W. Holmerud, bishop of the Sierra Pacific synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and John T. Steinbock, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno, wrote a commentary in today's Fresno Bee calling on Congress to reform...read more »
Comedian Paul Rodriguez, who helped lead the California Latino Water Coalition, appeared with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at an event in Los Angeles today. He suggested the next dam be named after Schwarzenegger, and talked about the water coalition: Some of...read more »
One of the criticisms of the $11.1 billion water bond is that California has passed so many bonds that the financially strapped state won't be able to handle the annual debt service on this huge bond. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said...read more »
CINCINNATI -- In Ohio, citizens marched to the polls on Tuesday and voted to allow gambling casinos in the state. This was a obviously a message to President Barack Obama that independent voters are not happy with the way the health care bill is going.
What is good for the environment is bad for business. What is good for business is bad for the environment. At least those arguments are often heard.
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