Earlier this year it appeared to me that Mayor Lee Brand had teed up the perfect sales tax proposal for Fresno: a half-cent divided between parks and public safety. But the Fresno City Council majority shot down the idea and now voters have a single option — a 3/8 of...
Is Jose Ramirez the Best Boxer Ever from Fresno Area?
Jose Ramirez now has done what no Fresno area boxer has ever done. Landing 381 punches by the count of CompuBox and scoring two knockdowns in his unanimous victory over previously undefeated Antonio Orozco on Saturday night, Ramirez successfully defended his WBC junior welterweight title. Keeping the title eluded Fresno's two previous...
Public Can View Students 9/11 Art at McLane High School
McLane High School’s ArtVenture Academy is displaying art recognizing the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001. Students created the art the following year in 2002 and again in 2011 on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. The art is displayed in the hallways of the T Building, leading...
Interview & Job? This Is What Students Do at Malloch Elementary.
Isaiah Cook loves playing with the video cameras his dad bought him to film himself playing with his Hot Wheels collection. When he found out there was a job at Malloch Elementary School where he could use his cameras to film school activities, the sixth-grader was all in. "I thought, ‘Oh...
A Fresnan Will Represent District 8 in State Senate. Who Will It Be?
Here is one election prediction you can take to the bank: For the first time in 12 years, a Fresnan will represent what is now District 8 in the California Senate. That is because both candidates, Andreas Borgeas and Paulina Miranda, live in Fresno. Borgeas, a Fresno County supervisor, faces...
High-Speed Rail CEO: People Will Ask How They Lived Without It
High-speed rail will reduce travel times between major California cities. That is the belief of the bullet-train authority’s CEO Brian P. Kelly, who spoke in Fresno on Friday (Sept. 7). He said when the rail is built, for example, it will cut the time from San Francisco to Los Angeles...
Why Did State AG Intervene in Caglia Industrial Park Lawsuit?
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says he intervened in a Fresno land use case in June because he wants to make sure the law is followed. “Our obligation as the department of justice is to make sure we are protecting all people in the state of California and all laws...
Hottest Golfer on the Planet Is 'Mad Scientist' From Clovis
NORTON, Mass. — Golf's latest search for a breakout star has come to the quirky little laboratory of Bryson DeChambeau. The 24-year-old physics major known as the "Mad Scientist" won his second straight event in the FedEx Cup playoffs on Monday, shooting a 4-under-par 67 at TPC Boston to win...
Trump Critic Becerra on MS-13 Gang: Not Animals, But Not Human Either
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra didn’t quite share President Donald Trump’s sentiments on the gang MS-13, but he came close. “When you talk about maiming human life, scarring them to the point that you don’t recognize them, I don’t know if you would call them human beings,” Becerra said at...
Browns Cut Fresno Native Kendricks After Insider Trading Charge
Fresno native Mychal Kendricks, a linebacker with the Cleveland Browns, was charged Wednesday with conspiracy to commit fraud via insider trading by federal authorities in Philadelphia. His attorney said that he expects Kendricks to plead guilty to the charges. But Kendricks was released by the NFL team Wednesday night anyway....