The Selma City Council is torn between choosing a district map the community supports or picking one that keeps members from running against each other. At Monday night’s regular meeting, the council cast votes on a map created by the company it hired, the National Demographics Corporation (or NDC), and …
Read More »Split California in three? The clock is ticking for proponents to get it on the ballot
Signature gatherers are out this winter collecting the 365,880 needed for a proposed ballot initiative that seeks to divide California into three separate states. Tim Draper, the tech billionaire behind … Click to Continue »
Read More »A split Merced City Council approves ordinance that allows weed businesses
A split Merced City Council approved a cannabis ordinance on Monday that would allow commercial marijuana businesses in town, including dispensaries. The 3-2 vote approved dispensaries in zones around the … Click to Continue »
Read More »CalViva-Kaiser Split Highlights Health Care Complexities, Patient Confusion
Earlier this summer, a contract between CalViva health and Kaiser Permanente left 9,000 Medi-Cal patients in the San Joaquin Valley to find all new doctors. We were curious how that transition happened, so we set out to find out how significant this change was in the healthcare world and how …
Read More »Hurexit? Proposal To Split Coalinga-Huron Unified Reaches State
When local school districts aren’t performing, parents typically turn to school boards or parent-teacher organizations to bring about change. But in one small Fresno County city, education advocates are thinking bigger, trying to enact a much bolder and more ambitious kind of transformation. It’s 8 a.m. in the city of …
Read More »Americans still sharply split on global warming, poll finds
Americans remain deeply polarized on climate change, but broadly support increased reliance on solar and wind energy, a new poll has found. The partisan split extends “across a host of … Click to Continue »
Read More »UC Merced and trust split 1,200 acres
The Virginia Smith Trust donated land for the UC Merced campus Land could still be developed for housing, retail and other uses The land was divided in half … Click to Continue »
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