Tag Archives: Central Valley
California’s golden luster tarnished by business exodus
For a more expansive posting of businesses leaving California, check out Joseph Vranich’s The Business Relocation Coach blog. It reads like a Forbes list and ought to serve as a criminal indictment of California’s inept Legislature.
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Filed under Agriculture, Government, Politics, Technology
A call to action to rebuild downtown Tulare
Why isn’t downtown Tulare a center for commerce and social activities the other 364 days a year? Instead, it’s a veritable ghost town for well over 300 days of the year. If it weren’t for the banks and the mortgage companies there’d almost be no reason for anyone to venture downtown at all. Certainly nothing continues to be done with the old Linder building, despite reported inquiries.
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Filed under Politics
Biting the hand that feeds us: Trail extension will kill farms and reduce public safety money
Discussions are under way in Tulare County, California to force farmers between the cities of Tulare and Visalia to sell prime agricultural land for a $3 million fiasco that will further erode our ability to be agriculturally self-sustaining in America. Worse yet for local officials, taking this land for public use forever removes the property tax income collected from that private property and forces county supervisors into further budget cuts on necessary public safety needs such as fire and law enforcement.
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Filed under Agriculture, Politics
Buying politicians or paying protection money: They’re one in the same
Take for example the farm groups that consistently gives money to Democrats thinking that maybe someday these Democratic lawmakers might, kind of, maybe see things their way and stop writing laws that take their water, land and livelihoods. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
Farm water a national security issue
Farmers have long been innovators in many ways. In fact farmers from around the world will gather next week at the World Ag Expo in Tulare, CA to consider the purchase of new technologies that will further make them more efficient. They’ve had to be more efficient. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
Farmers must better educate the public
While farmers have worked to educate themselves, have made strides in becoming more efficient in their practices, and have even joined forces to lobby their elected representatives, they’ve done little at best to educate their customers — the American public — about just what it is they do, how they do it, and why what they do is so important. Continue reading
Filed under Agriculture, Politics
