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Good morning! It’s Tuesday, July 15. This is Rob, wishing you a happy National Gummi Worm Day!
☀️Another typical July day in Fresno. The National Weather Service’s Hazardous Weather Heat Advisory remains in place until late tonight, with highs today expected around 101. Temperatures should begin backing off slightly in the coming days, dipping into the mid and upper-90s as the weekend approaches.
🚆Looking around local headlines this morning, Fresnoland’s Danielle Bergstrom broke the news of a new effort to study light-rail transportation options across the Fresno-area. A study is just a study and, Danielle notes, it won’t be the second or even third or fourth time that local leaders consider jumping onboard with a light-rail project. Check out the full story below or at this link!
🔍Amid growing backlash against federal immigration authorities, The Fresno Bee reports that more people in the central San Joaquin Valley are self-deporting, and, in many cases, returning to the same violent or dangerous situations they tried to escape when they came to the U.S. Increasing reports of self-deportations come amid the Trump Administration’s long-promised massive deportation effort that has sparked widespread fear and criticism of immigration agency tactics, including operating in secret while masked, reopening previously closed cases, and new reporting from the Washington Post that suggests ICE will no longer allow bond hearings for undocumented immigrants.
The Max Fire burning near Tollhouse has consumed more than 400 acres of wildland and was at just 10% containment this morning, ABC30 reports.
And, did you happen to see a weird light streaking across the sky around 2 a.m. today? KSEE reports that it was a SpaceX capsule returning to the atmosphere.
For the first time in decades, Fresno is finally going to take a serious look at light rail
Is one of America’s most car-centric cities ready to go back to the future? Fresno, whose early neighborhoods were shaped by streetcars, is ready to reboot its relationship with rail. Caltrans officials greenlit a $700,000 grant this month for regional transportation planners to study whether a light rail system for […]
