FCEA’s Dee Barnes sends e-mail on blog, Measure G

This blog has two parts. The first part is an e-mail I received Wednesday from Dee Barnes, president of the Fresno City Employees Association — the city’s white-collar union. Dee’s e-mail is a response to a blog I posted Tuesday evening. My blog was an analysis of how power works at City Hall in general, [...]read more »

Home Profile: Southeast Fresno’s Mundorff Home

Steve Lewis fell in love with a nearly century old, U-shaped house in southeast Fresno when he learned it was designed by architects Charles and Henry Greene — the brothers who designed the Gamble House in Pasadena. The 3,300-square-foot colonial revival-style home on the corner of East Balch Avenue and Eighth Street in Fresno is [...]read more »

Special election fallout

Sacramento Bee political columnist Dan Walters says the real loser in Tuesday’s state Senate District 16 special election is the “Democratic left.” Check out his video commentary.read more »

Lawsuit against Darling International also about health concerns

The future of the Darling International rendering plant could be decided soon when a Fresno County Superior Court Judge delivers his decision in a lawsuit that a citizens group filed last spring against the city and the plant. Both sides of the lawsuit met at a hearing Tuesday afternoon to give their final arguments in [...]read more »

Hanford proud of native son Joseph Castro, new Fresno State president

Joseph Castro's appointment as the new president of Fresno State was celebrated Wednesday by his former Hanford High School classmates, who remembered Castro as a bright student who clearly was destined to go places.

Denham brings high-speed rail hearing to Madera

The chairman of the California High-Speed Rail Authority board is being asked by a congressional subcommittee to provide a detailed account of how the state agency plans to spend nearly $4 billion it has received from the federal government.

  • Catching Up for the week of May 13-18

    A federal proposal to lower the threshold for drunken driving got mixed reactions, Fresno police moonlight to provide security at local businesses and a contract between the local GOP and Measure G's political consultant has raised eyebrows.

  • Jobs harder to come by for college graduates

    Finding a job in the real world is always a challenge for the proverbial liberal-arts major. This year, even college graduates with vocational degrees are struggling to get work.

  • Jobless tax hits business payrolls

    When Gov. Jerry Brown talks about reducing the state's "wall of debt," he carefully limits it to some $30 billion in budget deficits, mostly money owed to schools and community colleges.

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