Posts Tagged: Wednesday

Governor plans stricter COVID-19 response*

Illustration of California flag and the pandemic. (Image: bekulnis)

by JOHN HOWARD posted 12.01.2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom is expected to announce a tougher response to a surge in coronavirus infections that includes a three-week cutback on nonessential services and renewed stay-at-home restrictions affecting most Californians.

A ‘little guy’ and the water board

Watering crops in California's Central Valley. (Photo: CRSHELARE, via Shutterstock)

by Jeff Denham, Cathleen Galgiani, Adam Gray and Bob Elliott posted 05.10.2016

OPINION: The State Water Resources Control Board (Board) has tried for too long to bully Byron- Bethany Irrigation District (BBID), and we’ve had enough. It’s time the Board’s misguided case against BBID ends and remove the regulatory limbo the farmers within BBID currently face.