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Bill McEwen,
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Bill McEwen is news director and columnist for GV Wire. He joined GV Wire in August 2017 after 37 years at The Fresno Bee. With The Bee, he served as Opinion Editor, City Hall reporter, Metro columnist, sports columnist and sports editor through the years. His work has been frequently honored by the California Newspapers Publishers Association, including authoring first-place editorials in 2015 and 2016. Bill and his wife, Karen, are proud parents of two adult sons, and they have two grandsons. You can contact Bill at 559-492-4031 or at bmcewen@gvwire.com

Stories by Bill McEwen

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It’s Big Tech’s Billionaires vs. Unions in Fight to Control California Politics

Big Tech is opening up its treasure chest in a bid to reshape California’s political landscape and wrestle control from unions, Politi...
California

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Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 20, 2025. (Reuters File)

JD Vance Will Target Fraud in California and Other States

CBS News reports that Vice President JD Vance will chair a White House anti-fraud task force setting up shop in California and other states....
Trump Admin

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President Donald Trump walks from Marine One to the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 20, 2026. (Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz)

Independent Voters Abandon Trump in Droves: Poll

The latest Economist/YouGuv poll reveals that President Donald Trump has lost the confidence of the vast majority of independent voters. Rel...
Polls

/ 1 week ago

President Trump Guns

Trump’s ICE Assault Missed One Thing. Americans Won’t Ever Surrender Their Guns.

President Donald Trump doesn’t care much about the law, the Constitution, or the disastrous effects that his daily flood of decrees, p...
Opinion

/ 2 weeks ago

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Newsom Calls for Kristi Noem to Resign, Trump to Suspend ‘Lawless’ ICE Raids

California Gov. Gavin Newsom reacted to the killing of a Minneapolis resident Saturday by federal agents by calling for the resignation of H...
Trump Admin

/ 2 weeks ago

Image of Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer superimposed over ICE agents. In an MLK Day speech, the Republican mayor called out federal agents for using tactics abandoned long ago by local and state law enforcement

Republican Mayor Jerry Dyer Speaks Truth to Trump’s ICE Power

On the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday Monday, Fresno Mayor Jerry did what few Republicans are willing to do. Bill McEwen Opinion He s...
Opinion

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Life, Liberty, and America’s Pursuit of Unhappiness

We Americans like to boast, “We’re No. 1,” and we certainly are in our military capacity to invade other countries and abduct odious foreign...
Opinion

/ 3 weeks ago

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Does Fresno City Council Believe in Transparency? Let’s Find Out

When he was the mayor of Fresno, Alan Autry often said, “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” B...
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See the Roaring Cascade of Water Released From Oroville Dam

The California Division of Water Resources began required flood control releases into the Feather River using Oroville Dam’s main spillway M...
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What’s That Smell? A Stinking Pile of Self-Dealing at Fresno City Hall

Thanks to bulldog reporting by GV Wire’s David Taub and Edward Smith and Fresnoland’s Omar S. Rashad, a stinking pile of self-de...
Opinion

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A student throws a football at passing targets during Super Bowl-themed activities on the campus in Santa Clara, Calif., Feb. 5, 2026. Media and internet mentions of Sunday’s Super Bowl LX almost always place the game in San Francisco, but the hosting Levi’s Stadium , home of the 49ers, is actually 45 miles to the south in the suburban Silicon Valley city of Santa Clara, Calif., adjacent to San Jose. (Minh Connors/The New York Times)
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As a Super Bowl Host, Santa Clara Is Feeling Pushed to the Sidelines

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during a joint press conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (not pictured), amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine February 5, 2026. (Reuters/Alina Smutko)
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US Pushes Russia and Ukraine to End War by Summer, Zelenskiy Says

Federal prosecutor Joseph Thompson announces charges in a fraud scheme tied to Minnesota’s federally funded housing stabilization program, in Minneapolis, Sept.18,2025. Since the Trump administration stopped Thompson and Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office from collecting evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle following her death at the hands of a federal agent, he and about a dozen other prosecutors have departed, leaving the office in turmoil. (Ben Brewer/The New York Times)
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Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

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