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🥶Good morning! It’s Friday, Jan. 17. Today’s weather is too cold.
📚 Want to nominate Fresno’s next Poet Laureate? The Fresno Arts Council is accepting nominations until Jan. 24. Nominate your favorite local poet here.
🚫 Three recently defeated utilities district officials in Tulare County have refused to accept the November general election results. Now, California law enforcement and elections officials are getting involved, telling the three defeated politicians they have until noon today to clear out — or else.
Fresnoland’s Diego Vargas has the full story below.
Three defeated politicians refuse to leave office in Tulare County. ‘They are wrong’
California’s top cop weighed in this week on recently the disputed election results of a small utilities district in Tulare County — urging three defeated incumbents to step down and accept the November election results, promising “legal action,” including “civil monetary penalties,” if they continue to refuse to step away. […]

