March 2, 2021

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VOTE TODAY:  Clovis City Council 

 

Institute for Local Government to host "Leading Local" webinar series starting March 11

Institute for Local Government

You’re invited to hear from four local government icons about how best to tackle topics like social justice, equity, COVID response and the growing polarization in our communities.

 

POLICY & POLITICS

 

North SJ Valley:

 

COVID Update:

 

Opinion: The importance of lifting all youth voices lifts all of Modesto

Modesto Bee

I am a teacher at Grace Davis High School, an adviser for Black Student Union and a consultant for Stanislaus County Youth Empowerment Program. Those positions have afforded me the privilege of hearing and raising up youth voices. They have a lot to say.

 

Stanislaus schools well-positioned as Newsom reaches reopening deal with grant funding

Modesto Bee

California schools will be pressured to reopen this spring under a deal Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced Monday morning.

 

Median home prices in Stanislaus increased last year. Here’s how your city stacks up

Modesto Bee

Median home prices in Stanislaus County have increased over 10% in the past year, despite effects on the market from the COVID-19 pandemic

 

Central SJ Valley:

  

Editorial: The Bee’s Editorial Board offers its recommendations for the Clovis City Council race

Fresno Bee

The five candidates running for Clovis City Council in the March 2 election are each sincerely committed to wanting the city’s best. Two incumbents — Vong Mouanoutoua and Lynne Ashbeck — are being challenged by newcomers Diane Pearce, Noha Elbaz and Herman Nagra.

 

Fresno hasn’t been this dry in 50 years. ‘Miracle March’ storms would be needed to catch up

Fresno Bee

Fresno had one of its driest Februaries on record, with only 0.29 inches of rain last month. The last time February rainfall was that low in Fresno was 50 years ago, in 1971.

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COVID Update: 

 

Has this Central Valley sheriff been ‘cruel’ to inmates over COVID-19? ACLU says yes

Fresno Bee

Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has been accused by the ACLU of instituting “cruel” COVID-19 policies that have caused “physical and psychological harm” to county jail inmates, new court documents show.

 

Fresno Unified schools plan to reopen some classrooms next month. Here’s what we know

Fresno Bee

Amid labor negotiations and mounting pressures from Fresno city leaders and parents, the Fresno Unified School District is moving its reopening date up. Some FUSD elementary students might be able to return to part-time in-person learning after spring break.

 

Clovis Unified School District teachers preparing to receive COVID-19 vaccine

abc30

Clovis Unified started welcoming back junior high and high school students last week - and Monday, teachers joined the growing list of approved individuals who could start getting the COVID shot. The district is working with multiple clinics to try and get as many staffers inoculated as possible.

 

Gasoline prices in Fresno are rising. Here’s why, and where you can find the cheapest price

Fresno Bee

The cold weather that brutalized Texas last month is being felt indirectly in California, as the southern freeze contributed to an ongoing increase in gasoline prices over the past couple of weeks.

 

Fresno Low Stress Bike Network Plan

California Bicycle Coalition

With the support of a Sustainable Transportation Planning grant, the project team has developed recommendations to maximize biking, walking, and other active or low-impact mobility modes.

 

South SJ Valley:

 

Last month was Bakersfield's eighth driest February in 128 years

Bakersfield Californian

February 2021 was the eighth driest February in Bakersfield since official rainfall records began being kept in 1893, according to the National Weather Service’s Hanford station.

 

COVID Update:

 

After 'insane' few months, emergency medical system in Kern shows signs of recovery

Bakersfield Californian

Emergency medical services workers may finally get to breathe a sigh of relief after Kern County’s emergency medical services system finally hit levels not seen since the early portion of the coronavirus winter surge.

 

Lawyers Say Kern County Is Inconsistent With Information Regarding New Oil And Gas Ordinance

VPR

Lawyers sent a letter last week to the Kern County Board of Supervisors complaining that information presented at a recent planning commission meeting about a controversial proposed ordinance on gas and oil drilling was inconsistent with the timeline of the actual county document. 

 

Oil Trade Group Is Poised to Endorse Carbon Pricing

Wall Street Journal

The oil industry’s top lobbying group is preparing to endorse setting a price on carbon emissions in what would be the strongest signal yet that oil and gas producers are ready to accept government efforts to confront climate change.

 

State:

 

COVID Update:

 

What Newsom, lawmakers said about deal to reopen schools by April 1

Fresno Bee

California schools will be pressured to reopen this spring under a deal California Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced March 1, 2021 as there are signs of the coronavirus pandemic easing.

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CVS, Walgreens challenge Newsom’s comments about unused doses in California

Los Angeles Times

Gov. Gavin Newsom stood in front of local government leaders and lawmakers in Fresno on Friday and told Californians the state had taken swift action to reallocate thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses from a provider who “was not administering the vaccines quickly enough.”

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California’s unemployment call center remains overwhelmed 1 year into COVID

Sacramento Bee

Trying to get through to the state’s unemployment agency call center remains a grueling, frustrating chore for many people — yet the Employment Development Department has been warned time and again that the system badly needed fixing.

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People from across the country are funding effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom

Fresno Bee

Vincent Page was outraged when he heard Gov. Gavin Newsom had banned singing California in churches. “I was just incensed at the overreach,” said Page, an independent contractor from Pattison, Texas, a small town west of Houston.

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Photo shows Newsom visited restaurant with actor George Lopez. Did he break COVID dine-in rules?

Sacramento Bee

Gavin Newsom’s visit to Fresno has generated claims that the California governor violated his own COVID-19 safety mandates. The governor’s office has denied the accusations.

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No more urine tests: Proposed California law would end most workplace marijuana tests

Fresno Bee

A new bill in the Legislature aims to end a still common employment practice five years after Californians voted to legalize recreational cannabis in which private companies require can workers to test for marijuana use.

 

Survey Results: California Bench Growing More Diverse

California Courts Newsroom

As of December 31, 2020, female judicial officers constitute 37.6% of judicial officers across all court levels, a slight increase over the prior year and an increase of more than 10 percentage points since 2006—the first year that data were collected for this purpose.

 

Federal:

 

3rd stimulus check updates: What to expect from Senate COVID relief negotiations this week

abc30

The Senate could move as soon as this week to pass their own version of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill.

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Senate votes to confirm Miguel Cardona as education secretary

abc30

The Senate voted 64-33 on Monday to confirm Miguel Cardona, a former public school teacher, as secretary of education. He faces the monumental task of helping guide school districts to safely provide in-person instruction as teachers' unions in some places across the country are fighting reopening plans.

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High Noon For The Future Of The Voting Rights Act At The Supreme Court

NPR

The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a major voting rights case that could give state legislatures a green light to change voting laws, making it more difficult for some to vote.

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Biden Administration’s Plan to Rescind States’ Medicaid Work Rules Faces Temporary Hitch

Wall Street Journal

The Biden administration wants to roll back some states’ requirements that Medicaid recipients work in exchange for government relief, but it may be complicated by moves in the final weeks of the previous administration to lock in the requirements for months.

 

Editorial: The Grievances of Trump Past

Wall Street Journal

That great sigh of relief you heard on Sunday was the sound of Democrats and the media welcoming Donald Trump’s return to public attention with his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference. What would Washington Post writers do without him?

 

MADDY INSTITUTE PUBLIC POLICY PROGRAMMING

 

Sunday, March 7, at 10 a.m. on ABC30 – Maddy Report: “Federal Response to Looming Crises” - Guests: Congressman David Valadao; Congressman Jim Costa. Host: Maddy Institute Executive Director, Mark Keppler.

 

Sunday, March 7, at 10 a.m. on Newstalk 580AM/105.9FM (KMJ) – Maddy Report - Valley Views Edition: “Congressional Agenda for 2021” - Guests: Professor Greg Soydemir - Stanislaus State; Professor Nate Monroe - UC Merced; Professor Lisa Bryant - Fresno State. Host: Maddy Institute Executive Director, Mark Keppler.

 

AGRICULTURE/FOOD

 

Vaccine rollout for farmworkers is fraught with confusion and bad timing

Los Angeles Times

In the wine region of northern San Joaquin Valley, the coarse spindles of pruned grapevines are sprouting delicate creepers that curl toward wire trellises, and cherry trees are shedding soft pink blossoms.

 

Fresno County farmer joins a trend in selling ‘ugly’ fruit. Here’s where to find it

Fresno Bee

“Hello! I’m Ugly.” It’s not a traditional way to market fruit, but a Kingsburg farmer is hoping those words on his packages of dried fruit will catch shoppers’ attention.

 

CRIMINAL JUSTICE/FIRE/PUBLIC SAFETY

 

Crime:

 

Fraud overwhelms pandemic-related unemployment programs

Bakersfield Californian

With the floodgates set to open on another round of unemployment aid, states are being hammered with a new wave of fraud as they scramble to update security systems and block scammers who already have siphoned billions of dollars from pandemic-related jobless programs.

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Get a text asking for personal info for REAL ID? It’s a scam, California DMV says

Sacramento Bee

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued a warning about a new phishing scam related to REAL ID that seeks to get personal information, such as a driver’s license number, Social Security number or financial information.

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Public Safety:

 

Has this Central Valley sheriff been ‘cruel’ to inmates over COVID-19? ACLU says yes

Fresno Bee

Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux has been accused by the ACLU of instituting “cruel” COVID-19 policies that have caused “physical and psychological harm” to county jail inmates, new court documents show.

 

California prison agency failed to notify employees exposed to COVID-19, regulator says

Fresno Bee

California’s workplace safety regulator has fined a state prison agency $24,300 for failing to enforce COVID-19 protections.

 

Commentary: Re-imagining safety, belonging, and justice in the wake of anti-Asian violence

Brookings

As fears about the coronavirus increased in early 2020, Asian Americans began to sound the alarm about a rise in anti-Asian violence. Yet it took more recent shocking video footage of elderly Asian Americans being callously pushed to the ground—in one case fatally—to capture the nation’s attention.

 

Fire:

 

After the Creek Fire: Why a big rain could be bad for Fresno-area drinking water

Fresno Bee

That it hasn’t rained much this year isn’t all bad news, especially in the aftermath of the Creek Fire that burned nearly 40% of the San Joaquin River watershed.

 

Warszawski: Did an illegal pot grow spark Sierra’s Creek Fire? Residents went looking for clues

Fresno Bee

Was California’s largest single-incident wildfire caused by an illegal marijuana garden? That question has hovered over the Creek Fire since Big Creek residents were told as much by a local fire captain on the evening of Sept. 4, 2020 — hours before they were evacuated and half the town’s privately owned homes burned down.

 

ECONOMY/JOBS

 

Economy:

 

Stocks rally on Wall Street; S&P 500 has best day since June

Los Angeles Times

Wall Street kicked off March with a broad rally Monday that sent the Dow Jones industrial average more than 600 points higher and gave the Standard & Poor’s 500 its best day in nine months.

 

Is Inflation a Risk? Not Now, but Some See Danger Ahead

Wall Street Journal

Inflation is near a decade low and well below the 2% level the Federal Reserve targets as ideal. The usual conditions for rising inflation—tight job markets and public expectations of rising prices—are glaringly absent.

 

Commentary: The missing ingredient for restaurants in COVID-19 recovery

CalMatters

California restaurant owners and employees have celebrated the end of strict lockdowns and begun the process of reopening. While California remains the only state in the nation to continue to ban indoor dining, most of us are back cooking, serving and – especially – cleaning for our valued customers.

 

Commentary: A few small banks have become overdraft giants

Brookings

The explosion of overdraft fees makes basic banking expensive for people living paycheck to paycheck. Banks and credit unions generate over $34 billion in overdraft fees annually by one estimate.

 

Jobs:

 

No more urine tests: Proposed California law would end most workplace marijuana tests

Fresno Bee

California adults can smoke marijuana without fear of going to jail, but using it after hours can still have consequences at work. A new bill in the Legislature aims to end a still common employment practice five years after Californians voted to legalize recreational cannabis in which private companies require can workers to test for marijuana use.

 

California’s unemployment call center remains overwhelmed 1 year into COVID

Sacramento Bee

Trying to get through to the state’s unemployment agency call center remains a grueling, frustrating chore for many people — yet the Employment Development Department has been warned time and again that the system badly needed fixing.

 

Californians need higher wages and better jobs, report says

Los Angeles Times

California’s high poverty rate, low wages and frayed public safety net require a new “social compact” between workers, business and government, according to a report by a blue-ribbon commission that highlights the state’s widening inequality.

 

Hiltzik: Biden throws a bombshell at Amazon’s anti-union campaign

Los Angeles Times

Over the decades, America has had some anti-union and some pro-union presidents. But it’s never had one take a stand on behalf of a union organizing drive as forthright and powerful as the statement President Biden issued Sunday.

 

EDUCATION

 

K-12:

 

What Newsom, lawmakers said about deal to reopen schools by April 1

Fresno Bee

California schools will be pressured to reopen this spring under a deal California Governor Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced March 1, 2021 as there are signs of the coronavirus pandemic easing.

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Fresno Unified schools plan to reopen some classrooms next month. Here’s what we know

Fresno Bee

Amid labor negotiations and mounting pressures from Fresno city leaders and parents, the Fresno Unified School District is moving its reopening date up. Some FUSD elementary students might be able to return to part-time in-person learning after spring break.

 

Clovis Unified School District teachers preparing to receive COVID-19 vaccine

abc30

Clovis Unified started welcoming back junior high and high school students last week - and Monday, teachers joined the growing list of approved individuals who could start getting the COVID shot. The district is working with multiple clinics to try and get as many staffers inoculated as possible.

 

Stanislaus schools well-positioned as Newsom reaches reopening deal with grant funding

Modesto Bee

California schools will be pressured to reopen this spring under a deal Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders announced Monday morning.

 

Can teaching civics in schools help break down barriers in American society?

PBS

Fierce divisions seem to drive a wedge in much of American life at this moment and how we view government. Now, a prominent team of educators has released a new plan that calls for revamping history and civics classes in schools as one way to bridge the gap.

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Higher Ed:

 

California’s failure to diversify community college faculty tied to arcane state law

EdSource

At a time of renewed focus on race and equity across academia, the nation’s largest higher-education system is saddled with a byzantine and failing strategy to diversify its teaching ranks to more closely reflect its student body.

 

California State University faculty seek paid leave for juggling caretaking and online teaching

EdSource

Some California State University faculty members are asking for relief from the pressure of teaching online, helping students and their colleagues, while also taking care of their families amid the pandemic.

 

Bloomberg to Give Harvard $150 Million for Program for Mayors

Wall Street Journal

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is giving $150 million to Harvard University for a program designed to help mayors around the world more successfully lead their cities by training them to better manage, innovate and share best practices.

 

ENVIRONMENT/ENERGY

 

Environment:

 

Commentary: Cap and trade, offsets at a crossroads in California’s climate policy

CalMatters

If California is serious about greenhouse gas reductions, the state must address these climate goals directly.

 

Commentary: How a federal Climate Planning Unit can manage build environment risks and costs

Brookings

While state and local leaders in transportation departments, water utilities, and housing and planning agencies directly manage and oversee many of these built environment issues, they do so with little to no federal guidance on their climate impacts.

 

Editorial: To save the planet from climate change, gas guzzlers have to die

Los Angeles Times

Climate scientists tell us that we have less than a decade to make meaningful reductions in carbon emissions — including those from internal combustion engines — if we have any hope of staving off the worst effects of global warming.

 

Energy:

 

PG&E defends controversial rate increases that took effect Monday

Bakersfield Californian

Rate increases took effect Monday for residential customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. that the company said were mostly a response to heightened wildfire risks but which consumer advocates called part of a troubling pattern of rising costs.

 

Lawyers Say Kern County Is Inconsistent With Information Regarding New Oil And Gas Ordinance

VPR

Lawyers sent a letter last week to the Kern County Board of Supervisors complaining that information presented at a recent planning commission meeting about a controversial proposed ordinance on gas and oil drilling was inconsistent with the timeline of the actual county document. 

 

Oil Trade Group Is Poised to Endorse Carbon Pricing

Wall Street Journal

The oil industry’s top lobbying group is preparing to endorse setting a price on carbon emissions in what would be the strongest signal yet that oil and gas producers are ready to accept government efforts to confront climate change.

 

HEALTH/HUMAN SERVICES

 

Health:

 

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Rollout Begins In U.S. As COVID-19 Cases Tick Up

VPR
Johnson & Johnson has begun shipping nearly 4 million doses of its newly authorized COVID-19 vaccine across the U.S., officials said Monday, and is expected to further scale up supply in the coming weeks and months.

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‘Worrisome’ California and N.Y. coronavirus variants raise specter of new outbreaks

Los Angeles Times

New coronavirus variants that have emerged in California and New York are “worrisome” reminders that it’s too soon to roll back pandemic restrictions, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases.

 

Telehealth Has Been Good in the Pandemic. It Could Be Great Long Term.

Slate

Your typical health care visit used to consist of driving to a clinic or office, filing out some paperwork, and waiting for someone to call your name when your provider was ready for you.

 

Human Services:

 

Vaccine eligibility ramps up in Fresno region as new cases continue to slow

Fresno Bee

More than 175,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccines have been given to people in Fresno County, and that number is expected to grow steadily as eligibility for shots expands significantly this week.

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California’s new COVID-19 vaccine system to start Monday

CalMatters

The new system, operated by Blue Shield, aims to streamline a confusing county-by-county patchwork of vaccination efforts. “Give us a chance to make this work,” Blue Shield’s CEO said.

 

When will nursing homes reopen to visitors? State officials won’t say

CalMatters

COVID-19 cases at California’s nursing homes have plummeted 98% since December. But long-term care facilities say they are waiting for state guidance before reopening to family visits. “The sacrifice our seniors have made has been very, very difficult and caused a lot of harm. Now is the time to stop sacrificing them,” one doctor said.

 

CVS, Walgreens Look for Big Data Reward From Covid-19 Vaccinations

Wall Street Journal

Administering Covid-19 vaccines comes with a valuable perk for retail pharmacies: access to troves of consumer data.

 

How Is The COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign Going In Your State?

NPR

The U.S. is working to vaccinate a high percentage of its population against COVID-19 as soon as possible to stop the spread of the disease and end the outbreak in the country.

 

Biden Administration’s Plan to Rescind States’ Medicaid Work Rules Faces Temporary Hitch

Wall Street Journal

The Biden administration wants to roll back some states’ requirements that Medicaid recipients work in exchange for government relief, but it may be complicated by moves in the final weeks of the previous administration to lock in the requirements for months.

 

IMMIGRATION

 

Biden officials urge patience on immigration amid border surge

The Hill

President Biden is facing pressure from all sides as migration swells at the southern border — posing one of the first major policy tests for his administration.

 

Biden to allow migrant families separated under Trump to reunite in the U.S.

Politico

The Biden administration’s task force to reunite families separated at the border under former President Donald Trump will allow those families to reunite and settle in the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said Monday.

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Fact Check: Tom Cotton falsely claims Joe Biden halted the deportation of criminals

PolitiFact

Speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., criticized Democrats’ immigration proposals and claimed that President Joe Biden was giving terrorists and other criminals a pass to stay in the country even if they were here illegally.

 

LAND USE/HOUSING

 

Median home prices in Stanislaus increased last year. Here’s how your city stacks up

Modesto Bee

Median home prices in Stanislaus County have increased over 10% in the past year, despite effects on the market from the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Millions of Tenants Fall Further Behind on Rent as They Await Federal Covid-19 Assistance

Wall Street Journal

Tenants who are behind on their rent are still waiting for $25 billion in assistance that Congress appropriated in December, as millions of households and landlords fall deeper into debt.

 

PUBLIC FINANCES

 

Will Gov. Newsom end state worker pay cuts with tax revenue soaring? Here’s what he said

Fresno Bee

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that he will continue to work through the collective bargaining process to restore state workers’ pay after the Finance Department reported tax revenue is running $10 billion above projections.

 

Tax season is here — and COVID stimulus programs can complicate your filings. Here’s some help

Fresno Bee

So your 22-year-old graduated college last year and is on his or her own, earning money. You claimed your child as a dependent in 2019 but won’t do so for 2020. Can he or she get an economic stimulus payment?

 

Is Inflation a Risk? Not Now, but Some See Danger Ahead

Wall Street Journal

Inflation is near a decade low and well below the 2% level the Federal Reserve targets as ideal. The usual conditions for rising inflation—tight job markets and public expectations of rising prices—are glaringly absent.

 

‘It just sucks’: America’s jobless owe thousands of dollars in taxes on their unemployment

Washington Post

For tax purposes, weekly unemployment payments count as income just like wages from a job. But few people realize the money they get from the government is actually taxable.

 

Commentary: Prelude to a state pension bailout

AEI
After decades of mismanagement, state and local government pensions face unfunded liabilities topping $4.2 trillion. When a major public plan finally runs dry, you can bet Congress will bail it out no matter the crippling cost.

 

TRANSPORTATION

 

Gasoline prices in Fresno are rising. Here’s why, and where you can find the cheapest price

Fresno Bee

The cold weather that brutalized Texas last month is being felt indirectly in California, as the southern freeze contributed to an ongoing increase in gasoline prices over the past couple of weeks.

 

Fresno Low Stress Bike Network Plan

California Bicycle Coalition

With the support of a Sustainable Transportation Planning grant, the project team has developed recommendations to maximize biking, walking, and other active or low-impact mobility modes.

 

Editorial: To save the planet from climate change, gas guzzlers have to die

Los Angeles Times

Climate scientists tell us that we have less than a decade to make meaningful reductions in carbon emissions — including those from internal combustion engines — if we have any hope of staving off the worst effects of global warming.

 

WATER

 

Fresno hasn’t been this dry in 50 years. ‘Miracle March’ storms would be needed to catch up

Fresno Bee

Fresno had one of its driest Februaries on record. The central San Joaquin Valley city received 0.29 inches of rain last month. The last time February rainfall was that low in Fresno was 50 years ago, in 1971, said meteorologist Jim Dudley with the National Weather Service at Hanford.

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Video: Improving the Health of California’s Freshwater Ecosystems

PPIC

California’s rivers, wetlands, and other freshwater ecosystems are in poor health. Water management practices, pollution, habitat change, invasive species, and a changing climate have all taken a toll, leaving many native species in dire straits. And the current approach for managing freshwater ecosystems is not working.

 

“Xtra”

 

Yosemite National Park announces end to online reservations needed to enter the park

Sacramento Bee

Yosemite National Park will not require day-use reservations to enter the popular park in March. “Starting March 1, reservations will not be required to enter Yosemite,” park officials recently announced.

 

Miss live music? Rapper Fashawn, food trucks help launch monthly downtown Fresno gig

Fresno Bee

Brandon Knight misses ArtHop. He thinks others might, too. The monthly downtown gathering was a staple of Fresno’s creative arts, music and culture community before it went on hiatus last March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Arts & entertainment: Winners of Fresno Bee’s People’s Choice Awards 2021

Fresno Bee

The voting results are in for The Fresno Bee’s 2021 People’s Choice Awards — and the best of the best are claiming ultimate bragging rights in the Central San Joaquin Valley competition.

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