The Governor Should Move to the Delta

Building a Mansion in California’s Water Hub Would Kill Two Birds With One Stone

When you’re faced with two different thorny problems, sometimes the best way to make progress is by combining them. I’m talking to you, Jerry Brown.

Your first problem involves water. Residents of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta—California’s most vital estuary and source of water—fiercely oppose Brown’s plan to build tunnels that will divert water from north of the Delta to provide more reliable supplies to San Joaquin Valley farmers and Southern California. Their opposition is based on fear. In the short term, they fear construction of the tunnels will disrupt their lives. …

Graffiti Artist Erik Gonzalez

Feel Free to Like My Style ... Just Don’t Ask Me to Define It

Erik Gonzalez is a graffiti artist and the founder of Tulare County’s Urbanists Collective art group. Before participating in a panel on how people in the Central Valley experience art …

Educational Leadership Expert Walt Buster

The Stealthy Poet

Walt Buster works with doctoral students in educational leadership at Brandman University and coaches school superintendents with Pivot Learning Partners. Previously, he was the founding director of the Central Valley …

California Has a Mosquito Problem

A Global State Invites Global Insects. Is It Prepared to Bite Back?

One stifling July evening in 1952 a recently discharged Marine veteran, home from Korea, was spending the Fourth of July weekend camping at Lake Vera in the rolling foothill terrain …

Delta Conservancy’s Campbell Ingram

An Analog Guy Who Likes Catfish, Collaboration, and Caddyshack

Campbell Ingram is executive officer of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, where he works on restoring both the ecosystem and the economy of one of California’s major water sources. Before …

Fresno Wants to Be Your Guinea Pig for Art

Don’t Underestimate the Central Valley As an Incubator of Galleries, Fringe Festivals, and Graffiti Art

In the Central Valley, art is as likely to reach you on a street corner or in a pop-up performance space in someone’s garage as it is on a museum …