In a major shift of support, Sheriff Mike Boudreaux won the endorsement of State Sen. Shannon Grove (R–Bakersfield), Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood, the Kern Law Enforcement Association, and Bakersfield Police Officers Association. Grove, Youngblood, and KLEA President Tim Caughron announced their respective endorsements at a press conference at the World Ag Expo here. Sen. […]
Raw emotion and charged commentary filled the room at 210 Café Tuesday, February 13, when Tulare County Voices’ held a Prop 1 mental health and housing forum. Proposition 1 on the voter guide says, “Authorizes $6.38 billion in bonds to build mental health treatment facilities for those with mental health and substance use challenges; provides housing […]
Dr. Yorai ”Benny” Benzeevi is now a felon. On Friday, the 61-year-old pleaded no contest to six felony and two misdemeanor charges stemming from crimes committed while acting as CEO of the Tulare Local Healthcare District from 2014 to 2017. Tulare County Superior Court Judge Michael Sheltzer accepted the plea agreement during a hearing on […]
Voters in the Tulare Local Health Care District (TLHCD) may be asked again to approve funding for the stalled hospital expansion project. Bond Plan Doesn’t Raise Taxes At their meeting Wednesday, January 24, TLHCD directors approved a resolution that may eventually lead to voters approving or disapproving $50 million in bond funding to finish […]
It was standing room only at the Tulare County Board of Supervisors candidates’ forum on Wednesday night. About 70 people were in attendance at the Exeter Veterans Memorial Building to listen to incumbent Larry Micari and his challenger Joe Soria discuss the issues facing District 1, which includes Exeter, Farmersville, Lindsay, Poplar, Strathmore, Woodville […]
Eleven Tulare County high school teams will complete the competition rounds of Mock Trial this week. They include El Diamante High School (Visalia), Exeter High School, Golden West High School (Visalia), Granite Hills High School – Team A (Porterville), Granite Hills High School – Team B (Porterville), Lindsay High School, Redwood High School – Team […]
Some time this spring, beavers will return to the ancestral lands of the Tule River Tribe in the Southern Sierra Nevada. It will be a moment tribal leaders have spent a decade preparing for, hoping the once thriving and now missing aquatic rodent can help return the forest’s natural drought resistance. Beavers Create, Protect […]
Parker Sever, former chief of the Hanford Police Department, has denied allegations of racist behavior described in a pair of lawsuits filed on behalf of two former law enforcement officers under his command. New Employers Knew About Allegations – Moved Forward After Hanford Denied Allegations Additionally, a spokesperson for Sever’s new employer – the […]
Most voters see the Assembly District 33 race as a battle between two Democrats and two Republicans, but after a candidates’ forum last Friday, it looked more like a contest between two generations: Boomers and Millennials. And — before Lindsay Mayor Hipolito Cerros stepped back from the race — a Gen Z candidate was […]
The big stories worldwide in 2023 included how AI is going to take over the world a la Terminator, how a new class of wonder drugs result in rapid weight loss – until you stop taking it and all the weight comes back – and the horrendous attack by Hamas on Israel, and then Israel’s […]