Sierra Sun Times September 17, 2017 SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Adam C. Gray’s (D-Merced) announced the landmark passage of water rights fairness legislation after the bill received final approval on the last day of the Legislative session. The bill requires that administrative law judges conduct water rights enforcement hearings, instead of the State Water Board. “The region I [...]
By Marisa Lagos, Guy Marzorati, Scott Shafer KQED News September 16, 2017 Friday was the end of this year’s legislative session, and lawmakers sent Gov. Jerry Brown hundreds of bills this week covering issues as wide-ranging as immigration, public safety, health care and housing. Here’s a roundup of some of the bills now sitting on Brown’s desk. IMMIGRATION Senate Bill [...]
FOR RELEASE Thursday, September 14, 2017 WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded $55.2 million to 77 Native American tribes throughout the country to improve housing conditions and to stimulate economic development in their communities. HUD's Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program is a competitive program that supports a [...]
By Harold Pierce | [email protected] Bakersfield.com September 14, 2017 A coalition of community groups is hosting a meeting Friday informing the public of steps moving forward after the Kern High School District settled a major discrimination lawsuit in July. That lawsuit alleged KHSD engaged in a years-long pattern of discriminatory disciplinary practices against black and Latino youth. The [...]
By Erin Baldassari | [email protected] Bay Area News Group September 13, 2017 Without state and local intervention, San Joaquin Valley cities with high-speed rail stations will become bedroom communities, sending out waves of tech workers on express trains to the Bay Area and Los Angeles, a report released Wednesday by nonprofit think-tank SPUR argues. Reading this on your [...]
NPR for Central California September 17, 2017 Police officers across the country and in the Central Valley have been under increasing scrutiny and pressure for how they deal with civilians in the field. At the same time, some departments are acknowledging that their role is morphing into one that is just as concerned with identifying and [...]
The Sierra Star September 10, 2017 Nearly 270 people were allowed to return to 135 homes in Cedar Valley Sunday afternoon, after the Railroad Fire forced a Sept. 3 mandatory evacuation of the subdivision. The subdivision, with one road in and one road out, is off Highway 41 north of Oakhurst. Only residents of Cedar Valley will be [...]
The Business Journal September 8, 2017 The San Joaquin Valley Business Conditions Index has moved down, but still points to strong growth in the next three to six months. “The region is currently experiencing solid manufacturing growth with combined upturns in regional construction,” said Dr. Ernie Goss, research faculty with the Craig School of Business at Fresno [...]
Capital & Main By Charles Davis September 6, 2017 Hundreds of thousands of people sleep every night on the streets of the United States, where just about every major city is experiencing an affordable housing crisis. While no federal program offers completely free housing for the homeless, a little-noticed statute is allowing those who help this population [...]
The Business Journal August 28, 2017 In what the state is billing as “a major step toward sustainable groundwater management in California,” more than 99 percent of the state’s groundwater basins have met a key deadline in reporting groundwater pumping. According to the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) of 2014, key stakeholders of the state’s 127 [...]
