The California Legislature has a handy website that allows users to find and track the thousands of bills that are introduced during its two-year sessions. If one enters “California Environmental Quality Act” into the website’s search function, 171 bills pop up for the session that ended a fortnight ago, implying the Legislature’s penchant for...
What Would You Name the New Central Unified High School?
Nearly 200 names are on the list of proposed names for the new Central Unified School District high school under construction at Ashlan and Grantland avenues in northwest Fresno. The lengthy list was an information item on the agenda of Tuesday night's board meeting. The board vote could be on...
Walters: The GOP's Decline and Fall in California
The very rapid decline of California’s Republican Party — from near-dominance in the 1980s and early 1990s to its current irrelevance — has been one of the state’s most dramatic political events. Thirty years ago, in 1989, Republicans were on a roll in California, to wit: —GOP candidates dominated the...
Protest Likely to Greet Trump Fundraising Trip in California
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — President Donald Trump is making a rare visit to California, a Democratic stronghold where he is expected to rake in millions of dollars during a series of fundraisers for his reelection effort that are almost certain to be met with jeering protests. Trump has routinely mocked...
Free Speech Is What Allows Us to Govern Ourselves in America
Among the many things that make America great is our freedom of speech without government reprisal. In fact, one of our Founding Fathers, James Madison, believed that free speech should be nearly absolute. He also said that those who try to restrict free speech were opponents of our republic. Listen...
Should Deputies Provide Security for Men-Only Bohemian Club?
SAN FRANCISCO — An annual retreat in California put on by an elite club whose ranks included former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and powerful business leaders is facing scrutiny for excluding women after female county supervisors questioned whether they should continue allowing sheriff's deputies to provide security for...
Fresno Grizzlies Apologize for Video That Rips Ocasio-Cortez
The Fresno Grizzlies apologized to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after it played a video on its scoreboard that included a picture of the New York congresswoman among “enemies of freedom.” The minor-league baseball team posted on Twitter late Monday that the video, based on a Memorial Day speech by President Ronald...
Ronald Reagan is Back on the Campaign Trail … As a Hologram
SIMI VALLEY — A characteristic twinkle in his eye, Ronald Reagan waves to a crowd from aboard a rail car in a hologram revealed Wednesday at the late president's namesake library in Southern California. "We think we made a good beginning, but you ain't seen nothin' yet!" the digital resurrection...
Legendary Conservative Voice Charles Krauthammer, 68, Dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Krauthammer, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and pundit who helped shape and occasionally dissented from the conservative movement as he evolved from "Great Society" Democrat to Iraq War cheerleader to denouncer of Donald Trump, died Thursday. He was 68. His death was announced by two organizations...
California Can't Even Honor Ronald Reagan Without a Fight
How partisan is the California Legislature? Even a resolution declaring June 5 Ronald Reagan Day turned into a battle this past Monday (June 4). Assemblyman Dante Acosta (R-Santa Clarita) presented the motion to recognize the former California governor turned 40th president of the United States. ACR 245 received only 35 votes in...