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 Stories Top stories Deadline week: These are the big issues Brown left for last minute — Brown can no doubt hear the loud rallies held on the Capitol steps. Meanwhile, his office mailbox has been […]

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 Stories Top stories With Boehner out, McCarthy as House speaker divides Fresno County GOP – John Boehner is out as House speaker and, across the central San Joaquin Valley, people steeped in the world […]

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 Stories Top stories Mendota water rally calls for special legislative session – More than 300 farmers, workers and elected officials from throughout the Valley gathered Friday at Rojas Pierce Park in Mendota to urge […]

Political Stories Top stories McCarthy would bring California clout, though limited, as House speaker — Bakersfield native Kevin McCarthy will get a better salary, a bigger staff and a lot more clout on his state’s behalf when he becomes House speaker, as all in Congress now expect. But the old days of bringing home the bacon […]

Political Stories Top stories California vaccine referendum falls short in internal count — A referendum measure to overturn California’s new vaccine mandate will not go before voters, according to a preliminary signature count from proponents. Sacramento Bee article; LA Times article How Jerry Brown and farmers settled a major wage dispute — In the waning days of the recently […]

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 Stories Top stories California on verge of unprecedented clout in Congress, but McCarthy and Pelosi barely speak – Kevin McCarthy and Nancy Pelosi are about to make history. If McCarthy becomes speaker of the House, […]

Political Stories Top stories  McCarthy announces run for House speaker — Bakersfield Congressman Kevin McCarthy announced Monday he’s running for House speaker, a job that would make him one of the most powerful men in the United States. In a statement and in an interview, McCarthy vowed to heal the considerable divisions in the House GOP […]

Political Stories Top stories Central Valley sees hope in Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s potential rise – Every so often, Rep. Kevin McCarthy tosses out a catch phrase that’s popular in this southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley: “Once a Driller, always a Driller.” With McCarthy the odds-on favorite to succeed John A. Boehner as speaker of […]

Political Stories Top stories Moderate Assembly Democrats emerges as pro-business force — Known around the Capitol as “the mods,” they forced Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic legislative leaders to abandon a key provision of a bill that sought to combat global warming by dramatically reducing the state’s reliance on oil. The group also blocked efforts to […]

Political Stories Top stories  Bakersfield’s Kevin McCarthy in line to replace Boehner as House Speaker — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield now seems likely to step into the vacancy left by the departing House Speaker John Boehner. Fifteen years younger than Boehner, and seated right below him in House leadership, McCarthy has been the presumptive heir […]