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A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Safeguarding American Value-Added Exports (SAVE) Act this week. The legislation seeks to establish a list of common names for a variety of ag commodities and food products. Not only would the SAVE Act assign definitions to common names, but the Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Trade Representative would also have to defend the right to use those common names in foreign markets.
Proposed bipartisan legislation from two Valley congressmen would jump-start the effort to bring a wildfire-fighting technology used in other parts of the world to the United States.
It’s the very technology that a Fresno company has sold to other countries and the U.S. Air Force for years.
The LICENSE Act would streamline burdensome licensing regulations.
Additional legislation that would benefit the trucking industry is back in the fold.
The Licensing Individual Commercial Exam-takers Now Safely and Efficiently (LICENSE) Act of 2023 has been reintroduced in the 118th Congress by a group of bipartisan House lawmakers.
Legislators include U.S. Representatives Darin LaHood (D-IL), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Troy Balderson (R-OH), Jim Costa (D-CA), Dusty Johnson (R-SD), and Josh Harder (D-CA).
Seven months ago, 77-year-old María Sánchez injured her left shoulder and left hand when she slipped on a discarded banana peel on the street while walking home from a shopping trip to the store.
The longtime Calwa resident believes that a sidewalk would have prevented her accident.
“When it rains, I don’t even go to the store because everything is too wet,” said Sánchez, who walks for her errands two to three times weekly.
CALWA, Calif. (KMJ/FOX26) — Fresno County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sal Quintero and Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) held a news conference on Monday to announce $4 million has been allocated to Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements.
The federal funds are part of the Highway Infrastructure Program approved by Congress in March.
Calwa is a small community in Fresno County, just a few miles southeast of downtown Fresno.
The Calwa Complete Streets project will repair roads and sidewalks throughout the unincorporated portion of Calwa.
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Buckling sidewalks and rocky roads -- have been the "norm" for the residents of Calwa... but not for much longer.
Unincorporated areas are receiving federal and county funds for street and sidewalk improvements.
"Some of these areas don't have sidewalks," Milena Alvarez said. "They have kids walking to school on the closest side of the street, closest to the houses, because there are no sidewalks."
Alvarez is a community organizer with Friends of Calwa.
Fresno County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sal Quintero and Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) held a news conference on Monday to announce $4 million has been allocated to Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements.
The federal funds are part of the Highway Infrastructure Program approved by Congress in March.
Calwa is a small community in Fresno County, just a few miles southeast of downtown Fresno.
The Calwa Complete Streets project will repair roads and sidewalks throughout the unincorporated portion of Calwa.
FRESNO, Calif. (KGPE) – Congressman Jim Costa has awarded Senior Deputy District Attorney Miiko Anderson the Suzanne McDaniel Memorial Award for Public Awareness.
It is an award from the Crime Survivors and Justice Caucus.
Anderson grew up in Oakland. Her mother battled substance abuse, and in her young adult years Anderson overcame a number of obstacles including homelessness and surviving as a single parent.
Anderson poured her energy into her education, graduated law school, and passed the bar.
A combination of federal, state, and local Measure C transportation tax funds totaling $7 million will improve streets and sidewalks in Calwa beginning in summer 2025.
Rep. Jim Costa (D-Fresno) secured $4 million in the 2023 federal budget after learning that a county-led survey indicated the top priorities of Calwa residents were road repairs, street lighting, and sidewalks.
“The Calwa Complete Streets project will make a tremendous difference in the community,” Costa wrote in a letter to Fresno County officials.
Millions in federal funding is coming to the community of Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements.
The County of Fresno is announcing that $4 million has been allocated to the unincorporated portion of Calwa for street and sidewalk improvements through the Highway Infrastructure Program, part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act passed by Congress on March 21.
Dubbed the Calwa Complete Streets Project, repairs will be made to roads and sidewalks throughout the community just south of Fresno.
Nearly every member of the House Democratic Caucus signed onto a letter demanding an independent investigation into two fatal shootings carried out in the span of a week by officers at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“We are calling for immediate independent investigations into both of these deaths, without interference,” the lawmakers wrote, referring to the killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Joan Guerrero in Maine.