Although accepting half-a-loaf responses to many issues, Gov. Jerry Brown 2.0 fully committed to two causes — slowing climate change and undoing lock-‘em-up crime laws enacted during the 1970s and ‘80s.
The Bee continues a series by Dan Walters of CALmatters on Jerry Brown, California’s outgoing governor and longtime politician. Today Walters covers Brown’s second act in politics.
Fresno City Councilman-elect Miguel Arias says the ordinance for medical marijuana cultivation and dispensaries will hurt south and west Fresno without granting any economic stimulus.
I attended Tom Steyer’s town hall meeting held mid-December at the Falls Event Center in Fresno. Though I have been following Mr. Steyer for some time now, I had not seen him speak. I came away from the event struck by the many personal strengths he possesses: most notably his impressive intellect, his honest, principled approach to problem-solving, and (perhaps most refreshing) his apparent lack of ego, freeing him to really listen to the communities he aims to help.
After a blurred month of excessive “to dos,” on this morning I force myself to sit still, shake the snow globe resting on top of my desk, pretend to catch a few snowflakes on my tongue and revel in the wonder of it all, quieting my mind while house guests sleep.
Today’s letters to the editor were submitted by students at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology, the program offered to high school juniors and seniors in Clovis Unified and Fresno Unified school districts.
Columnist Victor Davis Hanson says the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential election is constructing more crimes than it is finding.
Editor’s note: Today The Bee continues a four-part series by Dan Walters on Jerry Brown, California’s outgoing governor and longtime politician. The series began Thursday, and installments will also publish Saturday and Sunday. Walters is one of California’s longest-tenured journalists covering Sacramento.
Eviction cases inundate courts in the San Joaquin Valley. Central California Legal Services can use free help offered by lawyers to deal with the challenge.
Voluntary agreements involving state agencies, public water agencies and farming interests are the best way to improve river flows into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Rivers Delta. That will help improve conditions for fish.
This week The Bee is publishing letters to the editor that were submitted by students at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology, the program offered to high school juniors and seniors in Clovis Unified and Fresno Unified school districts.
Humorist Dave Barry sums up 2018 in his latest year in review: More talk of Russians and the Mueller probe, more semiliterate tweets from President Trump about fake news, and the debut of Dr. Pimple Popper.
Looking back on a list of Fresno California area stories that made news but were overshadowed by bigger events going on at the same time. Subjects include the environment, education, mass transit & poverty.
Jerry Brown’s meteoric rise from community college board member to secretary of state and then to the governorship in just six years would probably have been impossible if he hadn’t been carrying his father’s name.
Today’s letters to the editor were submitted by students at the Center for Advanced Research and Technology, the program offered to high school juniors and seniors in Clovis Unified and Fresno Unified school districts.
On the campaign trail, Trump vowed to “destroy” ISIS, which hasn’t happened. And won’t with Americans’ departure. So, mission accomplished it isn’t, no matter how many times you say it.
A look back at this year's local, state and national issues in the news, as viewed and captured by the Observer's Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, Kevin Siers
California's housing crisis is due in large part to a lack of supply, particularly when it comes to affordable housing, and it is hitting low-income individuals the hardest.
