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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.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa and a bipartisan group of members sent a letter urging U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with their Japanese counterparts to ensure equal market access for U.S. farmers by eliminating Japan’s damaging frozen blueberry tariffs.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Jim Costa (CA-21) joined Reps. Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Joe Morelle (NY-25), and 95 colleagues in a bipartisan letter urging the Biden Administration to create a humanitarian program for the estimated 300 Ukrainian orphans who were involved in an adoption process with a U.S.
A bill headed by U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., would seek to ease a years-long shipping bottleneck at West Coast ports by applying federal antitrust laws to foreign ocean shippers that critics say use unfair trade practices that harm American businesses.
The legislation is a further response to ocean carriers’ recent practice of delivering imported goods from China and elsewhere and returning with empty containers, which has caused California tree nut and other growers to lose millions of dollars in overseas sales.
SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A push by valley congressmen could see more resources going to protect some of the most iconic plant life in the state of California.
Congressman Jim Costa says they want to do some forest management now and help reduce some of the fuel that could feed fires later this year.
“It’s an effort, a bipartisan effort to really ensure we maintain and protect mother nature’s heritage that she’s given us,” said Costa.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Jim Costa joined a bipartisan coalition of members in sending four letters urging the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and Canada to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21) and Anthony D'Esposito (NY-04), as Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Crime Survivors and Justice Caucus, introduced H.Res.330 – legislation designating the week of April 23, 2023-April 29, 2023, as “National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.” U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced companion legislation in the United States Senate.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representatives Jim Costa (CA-21), Dr. Larry Bucshon (IN-08), Lou Correa (CA-46) and Dr. Greg Murphy (NC-03) introduced a resolution designating April as “National Donate Life Month,” honoring all Americans who are registered organ and tissue donors for helping save lives.