TOP POLITICAL STORIES​​​​​​​   Local/Regional Politics:   State air board loses ruling over how it regulated diesel trucks and their pollution Fresno Bee A Fresno County judge was right to rule that a state regulator violated the California Environmental Quality Act by allowing small trucking companies to delay compliance with diesel air-quality regulations, an appellate […]

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TOP POLITICAL STORIES​​​​​​​   Local/Regional Politics:   The Nunes memo made this congressman a national name. But his California district cares about water, not Russia Los Angeles Times At Old Salle Cafe, near the northern outskirts of this deeply conservative farming city, Archie Harrison said he did not know much about his congressman, Devin Nunes, […]

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TOP POLITICAL STORIES​​​​​​​ Local/Regional Politics: Trump Formally Clears Release of Nunes Memo Roll Call Ignoring warnings from his hand-picked FBI director, President Donald Trump on Friday cleared the release of a classified memo compiled by House Intelligence Committee Republicans alleging the bureau overstepped its authorities early in the Russia election meddling probe. See also: ·       Trump […]

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TOP POLITICAL STORIES​​​​​​​   Local/Regional Politics:   Better air, more jobs seen with $70M climate grant given to Fresno Fresno Bee A new Fresno City College satellite campus in southwest Fresno is the flagship project in a package of plans that won a $70 million grant from the California Strategic Growth Council on Tuesday. The council […]

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TOP POLITICAL STORIES​​​​​​​   Local/Regional Politics:   State scores Temperance Flat dam project at a big fat zero. Boosters are pushing back Fresno Bee An application for $1 billion of state bond money to build Temperance Flat dam east of Fresno scored a dismal zero from the California Water Commission on the cost-benefit ratio, potentially […]