It’s that time of year when people with Medicare review their health insurance choices and enroll in a Medicare Advantage or Prescription Drug plan for the coming year. Keep reading...
Lemoore voters have been kind to their local schools. Just two years ago, the Lemoore High School District convinced the Lemoore electorate to pass a $24 million measure to improve facilities at the local high school. Keep reading...
Kings County’s and Lemoore’s residents are fortunate to have Assemblyman Rudy Salas as their representative, and as the slings and arrows of discourse lob back and forth this election season, remember that Salas, in his first three terms has been a tireless defender of his district, and Lemoore. Keep reading...
Congressman David Valadao should do his constituents a favor and accept his opponent’s compromise offer of a debate in Lemoore. His Democratic challenger, TJ Cox, has challenged the 21st Congressional District incumbent to at least a pair of forums – one of them hopefully in Lemoore. Keep reading...
America is in the midst of a national law enforcement fever, and the men and women of the Lemoore Police Department have not escaped its hypnotic appeal. Like an epidemic that refuses to subside, police officers, men, and women, from all points, are rockin’ and rollin’ and swaying to the music, lip-syncing their way to “Milli Vanilli” heaven. Keep reading...
The Lemoore City Council is at a crossroads. For the first time in its 118-year existence, our elected leaders are likely to censure one of its own, a disappointing but unavoidable outcome, considering the unwelcome and embarrassing behavior exhibited by the subject of the proposed reprimand. Keep reading...
Lemoore Councilmember Holly Blair has a tenuous hold on the truth, which makes her immediately eligible to serve as President of the United States. Blair’s most recent antics have also prompted Lemoore’s remaining councilmembers to reconsider censuring her. Keep reading...
Jul 9 2018 - 10:03am
Democrats’ ambitions to take back the U.S. House has never been higher. Separation of children from asylum seekers at the border has put a new focus on reining in Trump and shifting the majority in Congress. That math and the path to achieving it run through our three Central Valley districts held by GOP incumbents. Keep reading...
First-term Councilmember Holly Andrade Blair often refers to a mysterious and invisible good ol’ boys’ network supposedly orchestrating the inner workings of our elected governing body. Are these invisible conspirators working behind the scenes, silently dictating the actions and decisions made by Lemoore’s city government? Keep reading...
It’s increasingly clear that some people will not be satisfied until irrigated agriculture is eliminated from the westside of the San Joaquin Valley. As evidence, the commentary by Lloyd Carter and Donald Tayloe, M.D., which criticizes the drainage settlement between the Westlands Water District and the United States. That piece follows a familiar pattern; its authors cherry-pick facts to mislead; they neglect to mention that the agreement contains provisions that benefit all parties; and, they ignore that the legislation to authorize the settlement has bipartisan support. Keep reading...
