Valley Views

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Michael S. Tilden, Acting Califonia State Auditor; Kim McCoy Wade, Director - CA Department of Aging. They will discuss the aging of California's population and the work agencies are doing to address this issue.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by John Beckman,  CEO, Greater Valley Building Industry Association; Michael Prandini, President & CEO, Building Industry Association of Fresno/Madera Counties; David Dmohowski, Executive Officer, Home Builders Association of Kern County. They will discuss issues surrounding the lack of affordable housing in...

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Janna Sidley, Commissioner - Little Hoover Commission; Deepak Premkumar, Research Fellow - Public Policy Institute of California. They will discuss the state of police misconduct and law enforcement training.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Helen Kerstein, Principal Fiscal & Policy Analyst - Legislative Analyst's Office; Michael S. Tilden, California State Auditor. They will discuss who can be held responsible for wildfires and what can be done going forward to help mitigate risks.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Monica Davalos, Policy Analyst - California Budget & Policy Center;  Lourdes Morales, Principal Fiscal & Policy Analyst - Legislative Analyst's Office;  Marisol Cuellar Mejia, Research Fellow - Public Policy Institute of California; Hanna Wiley, Politics Reporter - Los Angeles Times; Jerry Dyer, M...

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Janna Sidley, Commissioner - Little Hoover Commission; Paco Balderrama, Chief of Police - City of Fresno; Curt Fleming, Chief of Police - City of Clovis; and Jose Garza, Chief of Police - City of Coalinga. They will discuss the state of law enforcement training across the Central Valley and California as a whole.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Ellen Hanak, Director - Public Policy Institute of California Water Center, and Sargent Green, Water Management Specialist - California Water Institute, Fresno State. They discuss the impact of climate change on water supply in general, with a more specific focus on the state of Valley water. 

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Dr. Magnus Lofstrom, Policy Director and Senior Fellow - Public Policy Institute of California; Dr. Sebastian Sclofsky, Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice Department-Stanislaus State; and Paco Balderrama, Chief of Police - City of Fresno. They discuss whether or not demographics decide if individuals will be sto...

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Dan Walters with Calmatters, John Myers with the LA Times, Paul Hurley with the Visalia Times-Delta, Danielle Bergstrom with the Fresno Bee/Fresnoland, and Garth Stapley with the Modesto Bee. They predict what the big debates will look like in the State Capitol this year, and what is likely to be on the ballot. The...

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Dr. Julien Lafortune, Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California; Carolyn Jones, Senior Reporter at EdSource; and Alma Lopez, a counselor at Livingston Middle School. They discuss the Local Control Funding Formula in California schools and focus on some specific examples of local success in educat...

In a discussion about the role of unions in the 21st century, Mark Keppler is joined by CalMatters reporters Jesse Bedayn, Assistant Editor Judy Lin, and Economy Reporter Grace Gedye as well as Valley labor leaders Dillion Savory from the Fresno-Madera Labor Council, Pedro Ramirez from the Kern-Inyo-Mono Labor Council, and Tim Robertson from the Merced-Stanislaus-Tuolumne Labor Council. 

In this week's episode, Mark Keppler is joined by Pedro Nava, Chairman from the Little Hoover Commission, Dr. Thomas Holyoke, Professor of Political Science from Fresno State, and Dr. Jessica Trounstine, Professor of Political Science from UC Merced to discuss California's changing electorate. 

This week, Mark Keppler sits down with Valley university leaders Lynnette Zelezny (President, CSU Bakersfield), Ellen Junn (President, CSU Stanislaus, Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval (President, Fresno State), and Juan Sánchez Muñoz (Chancellor, UC Merced), as well as community foundation leaders Ashley Swearengin, President and CEO of the Central Valley Community Foundation, and Marian Kaanon, President an...

In this episode, Mark Keppler talks with Ellen Hanak, Director of the Public Policy Institute of California Water Center; Lois Henry, CEO and Editor of SJV Water; Ian LeMay, President of the California Fresh Fruit Association; and Dr. Andrew Ayers, a natural resource economist with the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California about the impact of the current drought on the Valley and how...

In this episode, Mark Keppler looks back at 2021 in the State Capitol and looks ahead to 2022 with Dan Walters from CalMatters, Paul Hurley, the former editorial page editor with the Visalia Times-Delta, Danielle Bergstrom, Director and Policy Editor with Fresnoland, and Gareth Stapley with the Modesto Bee.

In this week's episode, Mark Keppler is joined by David Carrillo, the Executive Director of the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley’s School of Law, Alan Zaremberg with the Calif Chamber of Commerce, Steve Smith with the Calif Federation of Labor, Sophia Bollag with the Sac Bee, John Myers with the LA Times, Dan Walters with CalMatters to discuss some of the key issues in the California...

In this week's episode, Mark Keppler is joined by local journalists Paul Hurley of the Visalia Times Delta, Danielle Bergstrom of the Fresno Bee and Fresnoland, and Mike Dunbar of the Modesto Bee to discuss the biggest names in state and valley politics. 

In this episode, Mark Keppler is joined by two retiring state leaders, State Auditor Elaine Howle and Mac Taylor, Former California Legislative Analyst. 

This week, Mark Keppler is joined by Noel E. Perry, founder of Next 10, to discuss the future of electric vehicles in California as well as the future of emissions. 

On this episode, Mark Keppler is joined by Pedro Nava of the Little Hoover Commission, Danielle Bergstrom of Fresnoland’s Documenter’s Program, and Erica Manuel, CEO & President of the Institute for Local Government to discuss the Valley's experience with the new phenomena of on-line government. 

This week, Mark Keppler discusses the impact of the California State Universities on the economies of the San Joaquin Valley. He is joined by Robert Maxim, Senior Research Associate at The Brookings Institution, Lynette Zelezny, President of CSU Bakersfield, Ellen Junn, President of CSU Stanislaus, and Saul Jimenez-Sandoval, President of Fresno State. 

Brian Clark, Editor of the Modesto Bee and Merced Sun Star;Joe Kieta, Editor of the Fresno Bee, and Paul Hurley who is formerly with Visalia Times Delta discuss valley impressions. 

Tim Sheehan from the Fresno Bee and David Lightman from McClatchy Newspapers give an update on the high speed rail project. 

Dr. Liaosha Song, an Assistant Professor of Geology, CSU Bakersfield and is an expert in subsurface geology. Dr. Catherine Garoupa White, the Executive Director, Central Valley Air Quality Coalition (CVAQ)and a lecturer at CSU Stanislaus and Columbia College discuss geology and environmental issues. 

Jim Boren, Executive Director - Institute for Media and Public Trust at Fresno State; Dympna Ugwu-Oju, Co-Editor - Fresno Bee's Fresnoland discuss the role of state and local watchdogs