Saucedo’s Final Hearing Before the Commission on Judicial Performance

On October 7, on the proverbial heels of the week-long trial earlier this year before the Special Masters, the Commission on Judicial Performance convened in San Francisco’s Ninth Circuit Court for final arguments concerning Tulare County Superior Court Judge Valeriano Saucedo. The focus of allegations of judicial misconduct in 2013 toward his previous courtroom clerk, […]

Eastern Sierra Visit Offers Spectacular Fall Colors

Each year when California’s endless summer finally passes into autumn, Mother Nature cloaks herself in breathtaking colors of fire. In the Sierra, among the rows of towering pines, grow black oaks, cottonwoods and aspens, willows and the occasional elm, their reds, yellows and oranges blazing among the evergreens as winter nears. The transformation starts subtly […]

“Drill for Will” Project for Well Deepening Reaches Out to Visalians

Paul Buxman, Tulare County’s premier agricultural landscape artist-in-residence, has launched a rescue effort for Fresno County farmer Will Scott, Jr. Scott is a small-scale, organic Black farmer who has organized other Black farmers for mutual support, aided young people in getting back to the land, and produced healthy food once common in rural Black diets […]