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☀️ Good morning! Today is Thursday, July 11. (It’s 7-11 day, get your free slurpee!)
Danielle, here. Did you miss us in your inbox this week? No, the heat didn’t take us out, and most of us aren’t on vacation – we’re just keeping our heads down, working on some longer-term projects.
Speaking of the heat, NWS Hanford still has an excessive heat warning in place through Saturday, as we keep breaking record highs this week.
💃🏽 Despite the 111 degree weather forecast, ArtHop is still on for this evening. The Munro Review shares their top five picks to visit, including ‘Libreria Donceles’ at Arte Americas, that Fresnoland student writer Charlotte Burks wrote about last week.
🏛️ Yesterday, a group of city and economic development leaders from Fresno and Clovis signed a partnership agreement with SEMI, a global semiconductor manufacturing association – with the goal of elevating the region’s profile for the industry, according to a press release.
Fresno has been taking steps over the past year to make itself as competitive as possible for a potential manufacturer, from approving an incentive program to approving a new spec warehouse that some councilmembers hope could house a future semiconductor company.
New bill aims to fix Fresno’s shortage of nurses, but some worry it could make things worse
California community college bachelor’s degrees programs have been praised by some experts for making higher education more accessible to disadvantaged students. A local lawmaker is now hoping that expanding these bachelor’s degrees again could help solve staffing issues and severe shortages among registered nurses in the Central Valley – but […]
Did political connections shape coverage of Fresno police chief’s affair?
Campaign finance documents show that Alex Tavlian, the executive editor of the SJV Sun, has financial ties to the officer who filed a complaint about Balderrama’s affair.
