Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories Kern County sheriff a defiant California maverick on immigration — Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood was hiking along the bluffs overlooking Bakersfield last year when he got a call from […]
Political Briefs Top stories SD16: Conway squashes rumor, says she still plans 2018 Senate run — There’s a rumor making the rounds that Tulare Republican Connie Conway has decided against a 2018 run for the 16th state Senate seat currently held by Bakersfield Republican Jean Fuller. Ralph Bailey, a radio host on Bakersfield station KERN […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories Too much revenue, too little flexibility. Is this California’s fate? — California could face a strange budget problem in coming months — one resulting from too much revenue rather than […]
Political Briefs Top stories CD21: Fowler Democrat Parra says he’ll challenge Valadao — Fowler Democrat Daniel T. Parra on Monday officially said he will seek to oust incumbent Hanford Republican David Valadao from the 21st Congressional District seat. Parra, Fowler’s mayor pro-tem, has been considering a 21st District run for the past month or so. […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories Jerry Brown defends agriculture’s water use amid drought — Gov. Jerry Brown defended the agriculture industry’s heavy water use in an interview aired Sunday, but he said historic water rights […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories Dan Walters: Jerry Brown now owns California’s big drought — Brown is now engaged, but may have left himself open to criticism that it’s too late and too little. And […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories Half a million California immigrants seek licenses, exceeding projections — A surge of undocumented immigrants seeking driver’s licenses has caught the California Department of Motor Vehicles off guard and underscored […]
Political Briefs Top stories Drought will prove a formidable opponent in Brown’s final term — It wasn’t the way he intended to make his mark in his final term as governor, but Mother Nature had other plans. With no relief from the drought in sight, his most critical tasks will be rallying Californians to conserve […]
Political Briefs Top stories Dan Walters Daily: Independent voters surge in California — Voters with no party affiliation are taking over the California electorate, Dan says. Dan Walters Daily in Sacramento Bee Protestors to demand CalSTRS unload firearms investments — The California Federation of Teachers plans a protest at a CalSTRS board meeting in West […]
Receive the Maddy Daily in your inbox every morning! To subscribe or unsubscribe, please send an email to Ana Melendez at ajovelmelendez@csufresno.edu. Political Briefs Top stories  U.S. Supreme Court decision could curtain Medi-Cal lawsuits — During California’s budget crisis, attempts to cut costs by reducing public services often became tied up in litigation. But on Tuesday, the […]
