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By Remembering the Genocide, We Can Help Rebuild Armenia

Imagine a 3,500-year-old civilization. Some accounts suggest even longer, that they’d been in that area since the 7th Century B.C. Ima...

By Remembering the Genocide, We Can Help Rebuild Armenia

Imagine a 3,500-year-old civilization. Some accounts suggest even longer, that they’d been in that area since the 7th Century B.C. Ima...

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Californians Worry About Crime, Setting up a Ballot Measure Showdown

Californians once supported criminal justice reforms to lighten penalties for crime but attitudes have changed. A November ballot measure co...

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McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines Are So Unreliable They’re a Meme. They Might Also Be a Climate Solution.

McDonald’s might just be a new frontier in our fight against the climate crisis. Reid Heavner Special to CalMatters Opinion Yes, that McD...

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Will State AG Rob Bonta Jump Into 2026 Race for CA Governor?

California Attorney General Rob Bonta has been busy lately, or so it would seem from the never-ending stream of news releases from the Depar...

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Local Leaders Must Put Their Shoulders Into Making Fresno ‘Education City USA’

Fresno leaders keep searching for the silver bullet that will make California’s fifth-largest city sparkle. And they just keep shootin...

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Carbon Capture Isn’t Nearly as ‘Green’ as Fossil Fuel Promoters Make It Sound

The global energy landscape is rapidly evolving with California often leading the way. So begins Central Valley Business Federation (BizFed)...

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CA’s High Construction Costs Limit Housing. A Supreme Court Decision Might Help

California’s chronic inability to build enough housing – particularly for low-income families – has many causes, but a big one is its extrem...

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Fresno Monopoly Edition

A Fresno Edition of Monopoly? That’s Capitalism at Work, Baby!

Alright, cats and kittens, straphang onto your beanies because I’m about to lay a news flash on you that’s so whimsically wild it coul...

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Persistent inflation pressures for the third consecutive month are posing challenges for the Federal Reserve in its efforts to lower interes...

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‘Digital Democracy’ Project Penetrates California’s Opaque Political Processes

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Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson Pledged $10M for Maui Wildfire Survivors. They Gave Much More.

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Fresno Unified Says It Has No Superintendent Succession Plan Despite HR Leader’s Claim

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Work Starts on Bullet Train Line From Las Vegas to LA

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Trustees to Vote on New Fresno High Gym, Bullard Security Fence. Who Were the Low Bidders?

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Supreme Court Will Take Up the Legal Fight Over Ghost Guns, Firearms Without Serial Numbers

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