Momentum Radio News

The Sequoia National For­est will hold a series of pub­lic meet­ings in July to con­tinue to dia­logue and receive input from the pub­lic and inter­ested stake­hold­ers on For­est Plan Revi­sion.
The meet­ings will be held in Porter­ville and Kernville. As part of the cur­rent assess­ment phase, the For­est Ser­vice has devel­oped a series of topic papers and made them avail­able for review and feed­back in the Liv­ing Assess­ment WIKI on Our For­est Place, www.ourforestplace.ning.com.

The state Leg­is­la­ture on Sat­ur­day passed a major piece of the fed­eral Afford­able Care Act, opt­ing to expand Med­ic­aid to 1.4 mil­lion low-income Cal­i­for­ni­ans even as Repub­li­can law­mak­ers raised con­cerns about the program’s future costs. The vot­ing in the Demo­c­ra­t­i­cally con­trolled Assem­bly and Sen­ate came as part of the final votes on the state bud­get for the com­ing fis­cal year.
Sev­eral Demo­c­ra­tic law­mak­ers called the vote historic.

A Visalia man has been sen­tenced to 15 years to life in prison for child molesta­tion. A Tulare County judge handed down the pun­ish­ment Fri­day. Back in Jan­u­ary a jury found 50-year-old George Lopez guilty on a num­ber of counts. Author­i­ties say there were mul­ti­ple victims.

The Leg­is­la­ture is send­ing Gov­er­nor Jerry Brown a bud­get that he’s expected to sign before the end of the month. Some of the high­lights include about one bil­lion dol­lars more on K-12 pub­lic schools over the next two years. The UC, CSU and com­mu­nity col­lege sys­tems would receive a bud­get increase of about five per­cent. It restores den­tal care for adult Medi-Cal recip­i­ents and repeals the seven-visit annual limit on doctor’s office visits.

MLB NL
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Pitts­burgh Pirates 6, Los Ange­les Dodgers 3
Atlanta Braves 3, San Fran­cisco Giants 0

MLB AL
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New York Yan­kees 6, Los Ange­les Angels 5
Oak­land Ath­let­ics 10, Seat­tle Mariners 2

L W L Fri­day Sat­ur­day and Sun­day for the Rawhide against San Jose. The team takes a break for the all­star game sched­uled for tomor­row. Visalia takes to the field again on Thurs­day with 4 away against Modesto fol­lowed by 3 in Stockton.

NASCAR
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Quicken Loans 400 (at Brook­lyn, MI)

1. Greg Bif­fle
2. Kevin Har­vick
3. Mar­tin Truex Jr.

MLB NL
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San Fran­cisco Giants 10, Pitts­burgh Pirates 0

MLB AL
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Oak­land Ath­let­ics 3, New York Yan­kees 2 (18 inn)

A 9–3 win over SJ last night for Visalia in game one of a four game set. Game two is tonight at rawhide ball­park. Catch the action on Liv­ing Water Radio AM 1270 if you cant make it out to sup­port the team.

The quiken loans 400 takes place sun­day in nascar action in Michigan.

Cal­trans will close north­bound High­way 99 south of Tulare at the Avenue 184 over­pass bridge start­ing June 17 between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. and June 18 through June 21 between the hours of 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. each night. All north­bound High­way 99 traf­fic will be detoured at the Avenue 184 off ramp and back on to the high­way just north of the over­pass. East­bound and west­bound Avenue 184 at the High­way 99 over­cross­ing will be closed dur­ing the same period

Tulare Cham­ber of Com­merce Pres­i­dent and CEO Nina Akin will step down at the end of the month. Akin, who sub­mit­ted her res­ig­na­tion ear­lier this month, will relo­cate to Myr­tle Beach, S.C. Akin has served as the cham­ber CEO since Sept. 2010. She was pre­vi­ously with the Visalia Cham­ber of Com­merce where she was the direc­tor of mem­ber­ship and sales.

Cal­i­for­nia schools will receive an infu­sion of more than $3.6 bil­lion in extra money this year, much of it tar­geted to the need­i­est stu­dents as part of a redis­tri­b­u­tion plan pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The Demo­c­ra­tic gov­er­nor hopes that dra­mat­i­cally reshap­ing how state aid is handed out will cor­rect decades of inequal­ity between dis­tricts. He also wants to give local schools much of the respon­si­bil­ity to decide how the money is spent.

A fed­eral rail­road over­sight board has given approval to the Cal­i­for­nia High-Speed Rail Author­ity to start con­struc­tion in the Cen­tral Val­ley.
The Sur­face Trans­porta­tion Board ruled Thurs­day that the Cal­i­for­nia project could start build­ing the first 65 miles of the project from Merced to Fresno, as planned.
The STB pre­vi­ously ruled that it has over­sight of the project, but on Thurs­day the agency granted an exemp­tion to the state.