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Paycheck Protection Loans: California Received Less Per Capita Than States Like North Dakota

April 21, 2021

While the total number of Paycheck Protection Program loans received is high in California, when broken down to SBA loan dollars per capita, California ranks near the bottom at $845 per capita, while a small state such as North Dakota is at $2,037 per capita....

Fresno in Orange Tier. Restaurants, Movie Theaters Rise to 50% Indoor Capacity

Jim Jakobs

April 20, 2021

State officials announced that Fresno County can move into the Orange tier on Wednesday — great news for businesses such as restaurants and entertainment venues under COVID-19 restrictions. Under the orange ...

Costa, Feinstein Introduce Bill to Restore Valley Canals. No Money for Dams.

Jim Jakobs

April 15, 2021

Rep. Jim Costa and U.S. Sen. Diane Feinstein introduced the bipartisan Canal Conveyance Capacity Restoration Act on Thursday, a bill to authorize more than $653 million to restore the capacity of three San Joaq...

‘Data Dump’ Held Merced Back in Most Restrictive Tier Until Wednesday Fix

Jim Jakobs

April 14, 2021

Merced County moved out of the state's most restrictive COVID tier on Wednesday after California health officials corrected for delayed reporting of coronavirus test results. A sudden surge of case reports from a testing laboratory kept Merced County from m...

April Has Never Been This Dry, Say Researchers, as Cal Fire Begins to Staff Up

Jim Jakobs

April 12, 2021

Moisture content in vegetation is typically not something Cal Fire has to pay attention to until May or June. This is not a typical year. The U.S. Forest Service checked fuels in the Sierra Nevada foothil...

Hurtado’s Bill Knocks Down Barriers for Valley Medical Students

Jim Jakobs

April 2, 2021

California's community colleges don't offer a pipeline facilitating a student's ability to attend medical school. But Senate Bill 40 by state Sen. Melissa Hurtado, D-Sanger, seeks to fix that, and it has unanim...

‘Decent’ Chance of Getting to Orange COVID Tier Soon, County Officials Say

Jim Jakobs

April 1, 2021

The words tier, quartile, metric, positivity and case rate have reverberated across tongues since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, in layman's terms, Fresno County is inching ever so close to loosening more life restrictions in the coming weeks. ...

Utah Is a Leader in Cloud Seeding. Is It Working?

News

March 30, 2021

Salt Lake Tribune Utah’s winter sports industry may claim the greatest snow on Earth, but for skiers and water watchers alike, there is hardly ever enough powder. For nearly 50 years, the second-d...

Local Street Racing Victim Remembered as Bill to Increase ‘Sideshow’ Penalties Progresses

Jim Jakobs

March 23, 2021

Nearly three months after she died in an incident tied to illegal street racing, Sanger High School student Allison Tia Chang has a memorial scholarship in her name. Chang, 17, and her cousins, Linda Chang, ...

California Lawmakers Push Bill To Decertify Police, End Qualified Immunity

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March 19, 2021

CapRadio California lawmakers are eyeing new police reforms after having “mild successes” following the police killing of George Floyd and nationwide calls for increased police accountability last year. Among the proposals is a bill to create a p...

California Redwood Fall Kills Parents of 5 Children

Parents Sue Father Accused of Hiding Kristin Smart’s Body

Therapy Bunny at SF Ballpark Brings Smiles, is Instant Hit

Jenner Adds Celebrity, Questions to California Governor Race

Resnicks Give $250K To Help Newsom, but Pro-Recall Farmers 'Afraid' to Donate

Fresno Gets ‘F’ Grades in Air Quality Again, but Is Any Progress Being Made?

Paycheck Protection Loans: California Received Less Per Capita Than States Like North Dakota

DA Charges Former Clovis Council Hopeful for Alleged Campaign Sign Theft

Saddle Up and Get Vaccinated for Return of the Clovis Rodeo

Ted Nugent, Who Once Dismissed COVID-19, Sickened by Virus

Redemption Is Here for Autry’s Film ‘Victory By Submission’

How MrBeast Burgers Came to Fresno and Who Makes Them

Walters : Bills Would Hamstring Future California Recalls

Will Amtrak Joe Save California’s Troubled High-Speed Rail Project?

Walters : California’s ‘Tort Wars’ Flaring Up Again

Nursing Scholarship Donation Is an Investment and a Thank-you

GV Wire Unfiltered – January 12, 2021

Eid al-Fitr Marks End of Ramadan, but COVID-19 Curtails Big Events

LIVE: Daily Briefing from Gov. Gavin Newsom

After Taking on Costa and AOC, Elizabeth Heng Sets Sights on U.S. Senate

Planning Commission Delays Decision on Southwest Industrial Question

Clovis City Council Candidates Spar During Candidate Forum

Valley GOP Lawmaker Valadao Votes To Impeach Trump

Paycheck Protection Loans: California Received Less Per Capita Than States Like North Dakota

Fresno in Orange Tier. Restaurants, Movie Theaters Rise to 50% Indoor Capacity

Costa, Feinstein Introduce Bill to Restore Valley Canals. No Money for Dams.

‘Data Dump’ Held Merced Back in Most Restrictive Tier Until Wednesday Fix

April Has Never Been This Dry, Say Researchers, as Cal Fire Begins to Staff Up

Hurtado’s Bill Knocks Down Barriers for Valley Medical Students

‘Decent’ Chance of Getting to Orange COVID Tier Soon, County Officials Say

Local Street Racing Victim Remembered as Bill to Increase ‘Sideshow’ Penalties Progresses

California Lawmakers Push Bill To Decertify Police, End Qualified Immunity

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