The March 3 Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting opened with a typically zealous invocation, delivered by Pastor D.J. Criner of Fresno’s Saint Rest Baptist Church. Criner maximized appeals [...] Continue Reading
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Serving Rural Communities
Michael Evans has produced this informative slide show about the Community Alliance effort to serve the rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley. You can see the slide show below. This is a .pdf [...] Continue Reading
Mayor Makes Controversial Remarks at MLK Event
In a speech to a crowd of 1,000 at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration in downtown Fresno on Jan. 19, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, also the former police chief of the city, seemed to blame protesters [...] Continue Reading
The Central Valley Progressive PAC
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Orange Cove Grapples with Hydrogen Blending Plan
Orange Cove is a small Fresno County town nestled against the Sierra foothills surrounded by citrus orchards, as it has been for well over a century. The usual worries in this Valley farming are [...] Continue Reading
County Supervisors Contradict Constituents on ICE
“We’re deeply concerned that Fresno County supervisors held a [Jan. 13] press conference to support ICE, while ignoring the real harm ICE raids are doing in tearing families apart across the Central [...] Continue Reading
“I’m Gonna Make Sure This Fails!”
On Dec. 9, the last Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting of 2025, staff presented an update on Measure C renewal negotiations, also covering what would be required to advance a potential [...] Continue Reading
History of the 99 Freeway
[Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization.] A new report from the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies looks at the scale of destruction [...] Continue Reading