The House Committee on Natural Resources advanced Congressman David Valadao’s bill HR 215, WATER for California Act. This bill, according to a news release from Valadao’s office will streamline operations, expanding water storage infrastructure, and increasing accountability. Valadao says “If we don’t take action to fix the complex and contradictory laws and regulations that control…… MORE
Lawsuit: California Prisons Target ‘Foreign-Born’ Inmates
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California’s corrections agency routinely refers inmates who appear to be “foreign-born” to federal immigration authorities even if they are U.S. citizens and lawful residents, with some improperly detained by the government for weeks after their sentences, said a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday. The lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties…… MORE
Yosemite Valley To Close Over Flood Threat As Snowpack Melts
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Much of the famed valley at California’s Yosemite National Park will be temporarily closed starting Friday due to a forecast of flooding as rising temperatures melt the Sierra Nevada’s massive snowpack. Park officials said Tuesday that the eastern section of Yosemite Valley will stay shut at least until May…… MORE
Valley Assemblyman Rejects Public Safety Committee’s Amendments During Fentanyl Bills Hearing
SACRAMENTO, CA (KMJ) – On Thursday morning, Assembly Democrats held a special hearing of the Assembly Public Safety Committee to hear fentanyl bills that they refused to hear previously. Hundreds of Californians are dying every month by counterfeit drugs laced with the deadly drug. There were seven bipartisan bills read that would have imposed consequences…… MORE
California Weighs First-In-Nation Emission Rule For Trains
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Every day, locomotives pull rail cars filled with food, lumber, oil and other products through railyards near neighborhoods in Oakland, Commerce, San Bernadino and other California cities. They run on diesel, a more powerful fuel than gasoline, and burning all that diesel produces pollution that is harmful for people who live…… MORE
Punishment Or Prevention: California Debates Fentanyl Crisis
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Pamela Smith remembers vividly the last time she saw her only son alive. It was 3:18 a.m. on July 3, 2016, in Fresno, California, and 22-year-old Jackson Smith was lying motionless on a table in an emergency room while a nurse performed chest compressions. Earlier that night, he had taken an…… MORE
Meat And Dairy Production Lead Food Sector Sales
New data from USDA’s Economic Research Service shows meat processing and dairy product manufacturing are the largest components of food sector sales. Food and beverage manufacturing plants transform raw food commodities into products for intermediate or final consumption by using labor, machinery, energy, and scientific knowledge. These plants accounted for nearly $267 billion or 16.8%…… MORE
Number of Farms Continues to Decline
New data released by USDA’s Economic Research Service shows the number of farms in California and across the country continues to decline. After peaking at 6.8 million farms in 1935, the number of U.S. farms and ranches fell sharply through the early 1970s. Researchers say the rapidly falling farm numbers in the mid-20th century reflect…… MORE
Lawmakers Request Disaster Relief for Farmers
A coalition of California lawmakers is requesting a disaster recovery package to aid California farms and ranches devastated by historic storms earlier this year. The coalition, which includes Representatives Jim Costa, Jimmy Panetta and Zoe Lofgren, made the request in a letter to House leadership. The letter states, “We, therefore, request a disaster recovery package…… MORE
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
(KMJ) – Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. The City of Fresno raised the Armenian flag at City Hall in honor of the day It was 108 years ago, on April 24th, in 1915, that the Ottoman empire, now known as Turkey began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders. One and a half million…… MORE
