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New taxes? Spending cuts? Fresno leaders face tough decisions to fill $20M budget hole

Following consecutive years with more than 70 homicides in the city, Fresno’s public officials expanded the police and fire departments and signed off on big labor contracts for officers and firefighters.  So far under Mayor Jerry Dyer — the city’s longtime former police chief — Fresno’s police budget grew by $74 million and the fire department’s […]

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