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Did Candidate Messages Doom Local Funding for Veterans, Roads, Fresno State?

Three local sales tax proposals on Tuesday's ballot, designed to support veterans, road maintenance and improvements at Fresno State, all appear to be heading for failure based on vote returns reported Tuesday. Although two of them are winning over 50% of the votes cast, they require a two-thirds majority to...

Fresno City Council Throws Its Weight Behind Measure C Renewal

  After several hours of discussion Thursday that followed weeks of controversial meetings and the unexpected intervention of California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the Fresno City Council voted to support the renewal plan for Measure C, Fresno County's half-cent transportation tax. The vote was 5-1, with Councilmember Miguel Arias casting...

Central Unified Trustees Decide to Take Another Shot at $120M Bond Measure

Central Unified School District trustees hope the second time will be the charm for a $120 million bond measure and voted 5-1 Tuesday night to put it on the Nov. 3 ballot. In the March primary election, Central Unified's Measure C just missed the 55% voter approval margin needed for...

Central Unified Mulls a Second Shot at Bond Measure

There will be no survey of voters this time around for Central Unified School District if trustees decide to take another shot at a bond measure. The last survey, which was taken in the summer of 2019 long before the words "COVID-19" and "pandemic" were on everybody's lips, had predicted...

Hate the Trains at Blackstone & McKinley? Good News is Here.

The announcement of funding to improve vehicle and pedestrian traffic at Blackstone and McKinley avenues in central Fresno received cheers from educators, planners, community activists, and elected leaders on Wednesday. The Fresno County Transportation Authority awarded $6 million in Measure C sales tax revenue to City Hall to begin design...

Walters: Even More Confusion Over Tax Vote

Throughout California, local government and school officials have been stunned by voters’ reluctance this month to approve new taxes and bonds. The California Taxpayers Association has reported that more than half of the local measures appeared to fail on March 3, although some may squeak through when all votes are...

Fresno Unified Predicts Measure M Success, Other Districts Wait For More Vote Counts

Fresno Unified School District's $325 million Measure M appears headed to victory, which seems to be eluding other local school bond measures in Tuesday's primary election. Based on current vote totals, the only other local school bond measure that seems certain of being approved is Parlier Unified School District's $11...

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