Maddy Report – Valley Views Edition

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Mindy Romero, the Director of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the Price School of Public Policy in USC; and Dean Bonner, an Associate Survey Director and Research Fellow at the PPIC.

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; Dr. Andrew Ayres, Research Fellow - Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center; Dr. Alvar Escriva-Bou, Senior Fellow - Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Dillon Savory, California Labor Federation; Tal Eslick, Vista Consulting; Mike Prandini, Building Industry Association.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Jim Boren- fmr Editorial Pg Editor (Fresno Bee), Danielle Bergstrom, Fresnoland, Lois Henry, SJV Water.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Shannon McConville, Research Fellow - Public Policy Institute of California.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Ryan Jacobsen from the Fresno County Farm Bureau; Jason Gianelli & Jenny Holtermann from the Kern County Farm Bureau; and Tom Orvis from the Stanislaus County Farm Bureau.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Joseph Hayes, Senior Research Associate - Public Policy Institute of California, and Pedro Nava, Chair - Little Hoover Commission.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by President Chris Vitelli, Merced College; President Chad Redwing, Modesto Junior College; Chancellor Kristin Clark, West Hills College; President Brent Calvin, College of the Sequoias; President Kim Armstrong, Clovis Community College; President Robert Pimentel, Fresno City College.

On this episode of the Maddy Report: Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Rich Ehisen, Editor in Chief of Capitol Weekly, Josh Yeager, Bakersfield Reporter of KVPR, Paul Hurley, Editor of Visalia Times-Delta, Danielle Bergstrom, Executive Director of Fresnoland, and Michelle Morgante, Editor in Chief of Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Paulette Cha, Research Fellows at the Public Policy Institute of California and Paul Brown, Professor of Health Economics at UC Merced 

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Frank Jimenez and Sarah Cornett, Fiscal and Policy Analysts at the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Paulette Cha and Shannon McConville, Research Fellows at the Public Policy Institute of California.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Pedro Nava, Chair of California Little Hoover Commission.

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.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Thomas Curwen, LA Times.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Jesse Bedayn, Reporter - CalMatters; Judy Lin, Assistant Editor - CalMatters; and Grace Gedye, Economy Reporter - CalMatters.

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.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Leslie Jacobs, Professor of Law, McGeorge School of Law.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Ashley Swearengin, Executive Director - Central Valley Community Foundation; Lee Ann Eager, President - Fresno County Economic Development Corporation.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times; Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times; and Elaine Howle, Former State Auditor.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Tani Cantil-Sakauye, President/CEO, PPIC and former Cheif Justice, California Supreme Court.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Roger Aines, Senior Scientist - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sarah Cornett, Fiscal and Policy Analyst, LAO.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Ryan Jacobsen, CEO - Fresno County Farm Bureau and Tricia Stever Blattler, Executive Director - Tulare County Farm Bureau.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Ashley Swearengin, Executive Director - Central Valley Community Foundation and Lee Ann Eager, President - Fresno County Economic Development Corporation. He is also joined by Alejandra Y. Castillo, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development - U.S. Department of Commerce.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Ellen Hanak, Director of the Public Policy Institute of California Water Center, Dr. Andrew Ayres, Research Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center, Dr. Alvar Escriva-Bou, Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Water Policy Center, Charles Hillyer, Interim Associate Vice President of the California Water Institute, Dr. Steve Blumenshine, Director of Research and Education at the Water, Energy and Technology (WET) Center, and Helle Petersen, Director of the Water, Energy and Technology (WET) Center. They will discuss the changes to California's water markets and updates to regional and local water conservation.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by a senior fellow at the non-partisan Public Policy Institute of California, specializing in K–12 education, with an emphasis on math and science education. He'll also talk to school superintendents, Sara Noguchi, Robert Nelson, Eimear O'Brien, Mark Luque, and Kirk Shrum, from throughout the Valley—from Modesto to Bakersfield—to see what they think about raising high school graduation requirements. 

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Tami Lundberg the Chief Technology Officer at FUSD, Don Soyinthisane, Director of Learner Support at FUSD, and Peter Sonkeen, the Director of Technology at Lindsey USD. We’ll find out what one large urban district and one small rural school district are doing to meet the challenge of Improving Digital Equity in Valley K-12 Education.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Scott Linesburg, the editor of Stocktonia, Joe Kieta, the editor of the Fresno Bee, Paul Hurley with the College of the Sequioas, and Robert Price, with the KGET, Bakersfield’s NBC affiliate. They will discuss those folks who are unelected, yet highly influential, when it comes to local politics and government.

On this episode of the Maddy Report Valley Views Edition, Mark Keppler is joined by Anthony Rathburn, Interim Director of the California Energy Research Center, CSUB; Liz Rozell, Director, Valley Strong Energy Institute, Bakersfield College. They will discuss the future of energy in Kern County.

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 the Valley and the state.

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, Mayor - City of Fresno;  Karen Goh, Mayor - City of Bakersfield; and Sue Zwahlen, Mayor - City of Modesto. They discuss the state of homelessness in California and various major cities across the Central Valley.

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 stopped by law enforcement, both statewide and in the San Joaquin Valley. 

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. They also discuss what we can expect in terms of politics in the San Joaquin Valley in 2022. 

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 education. 

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 and CEO of the Stanislaus Community Foundation. They discuss the institutions in the Central Valley that are driving systemic change. 

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 the Valley can address the seemingly contradictory goals of using less groundwater, while still meeting the needs of a burgeoning population.

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 Supreme Court in recent years.

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.