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Walters: Bill Reduces Ballot Measure Transparency

June 19, 2019

Given their druthers, many government officials would prefer to do their business – our business, actually – behind closed doors and provide sanitized, self-serving versions of their actions after the fact. Dan Walters CALmatters Journalists...

Walters: Bond Issue Transparency Still Under Assault

Dan Walters, CALmatters Commentary

April 14, 2019

Two years ago, in a rare display of support for transparency in government finance, the Legislature and then-Gov. Jerry Brown required local governments and school districts to tell voters how proposed bond iss...

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All 62 Clovis Police Patrol Officers Outfitted With Body Cams

Myles Barker

February 13, 2019

For the first time, all 62 Clovis Police Department patrol officers are outfitted with a body-worn camera. Wednesday morning, the department finished mounting the docking stations for the cameras at headquar...

What Would Happen if Hospitals Openly Shared Their Prices?

The Conversation

February 13, 2019

Imagine there was a store where there were no prices on items, and you never knew what you’d pay until you’d picked out your purchases and were leaving the shop. You might be skeptical that the store would have any incentive to offer reasonable prices. ...

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State Politicians Still Up to their Sneaky Tricks: Walters

David Taub

June 14, 2018

Californians like transparency when its comes to their elected leaders. Voters demanded that legislation be printed three days in advance when Proposition 54 passed in 2016. 'Mushroom Bills' Grow in the Dar...

Mimicking Trump, Local Officials Around U.S. Use ‘Fake News’ as a Weapon

gvwire

March 13, 2018

By RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press An Idaho state lawmaker urges her constituents to submit entries for her “fake news awards.” The Kentucky governor tweets #FAKENEWS to dismiss questions about his purchase ...

Dan Walters Tells It Like It Is About Sexual Harassment & Hypocritical Cal Legislature

gvwire

February 7, 2018

California lawmakers finally relented last week and released records of investigations into sexual harassment involving Capitol members and employees. But CALmatters columnist Dan Walters opines in his Feb. 7 column that the state Legislature's action fell ...

Editorial: Insidious AB 1250 Bad for California

gvwire

August 30, 2017

It's difficult to imagine worse legislation than Assembly Bill 1250, which pretends to promote transparency and save taxpayer dollars but is really a brazen attempt to add more dues paying members to California...

Auto Racing's Vukovich Family to be Honored with Marker

Valley Children’s Again Ranks Among the Nation’s Best

Newsom Apologizes, Calls Treatment of Native Americans Genocide

Toxic Algae a Danger for Swimmers at San Luis Reservoir

Big Special Ed Dollars Coming. Can FUSD Deliver Better Results?

Valley Children’s Again Ranks Among the Nation’s Best

Fact Check: Trump’s Falsehoods on Electoral College, Border Wall

Finally, Fresno Unified’s Trajectory Is Pointing Up

Analysis: Why the Warriors Will Win the NBA Finals

Mariska Hargitay: Haven’t Been in Touch With Linda Fairstein

Police: 4 Shot, 3 Arrested at Raptors Rally in Toronto

Former Clovis High, Fresno City Wrestler Released Without Charges

Is He the Only Dem in America Not Running for President?

Walters: Bill Reduces Ballot Measure Transparency

In California, a Blue Wave and Progressive Governor: So Why Are so Many Leftist Plans Going Under?

Cities Pledge to Find Solutions to California’s Homeless Crisis

California’s Worsening Wildfires, Explained

Brand to Human Traffickers: All of Fresno Is Coming After You!

A Brief History of Fresno’s Spiral Garage

Biden and Trump Attack Each Other in a Possible 2020 Preview

A Look at Fresno’s Judiciary as Mangano Takes His Robe

California Poll: Biden the Choice of Likely Democratic Voters

Trump Says He’d ‘Want to Hear’ Foreign Dirt on His Rivals

Walters: Bill Reduces Ballot Measure Transparency

Walters: Bond Issue Transparency Still Under Assault

All 62 Clovis Police Patrol Officers Outfitted With Body Cams

What Would Happen if Hospitals Openly Shared Their Prices?

State Politicians Still Up to their Sneaky Tricks: Walters

Mimicking Trump, Local Officials Around U.S. Use ‘Fake News’ as a Weapon

Dan Walters Tells It Like It Is About Sexual Harassment & Hypocritical Cal Legislature

Editorial: Insidious AB 1250 Bad for California

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