Marek Warszawski

Fresno

Metro columnist @FresnoBee. Opinions are my own and you probably wouldn't want them to be yours. Tips: [email protected] or DM

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Trump, not trans athletes, is the greatest threat to girls sports | Opinion

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Marek Warszawski

Never mind what you hear from grandstanding Fresno County politicians or read in the right-wing media. The greatest threat to the future of girls sports is not transgender athletes, including the section champion who qualified in three jumping events at this weekend’s CIF State Track and Field Championships in Clovis. The greatest threat to girls sports is Donald Trump. And by extension, anyone who supports Trump policies that disemboweled the Department of Education.
Fresno-area family still scarred 3 years after FBI raid for false bomb threats

1 week ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

Three years ago this month, brothers John and Sam Niblick, their mother Wendy Johnson-Niblick and friend/roommate Kashaun Clyburn endured the most terrifying experience of their lives. Just before dawn on May 2, 2022, their family home on a quiet cul-de-sac in the gated community of Quail Lakes outside Clovis got raided and ripped through by federal agents and local law enforcement.
Fresno has $20M to build a new park in city's core. Where should it go?

2 weeks ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

Backed by volunteers and flanked by District 4 Councilmember Tyler Maxwell, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer highlights recent improvements to Cary Park as part of Beautify Fresno's citywide Great American Cleanup effort held April 25, 2025. [email protected] Just like ocean liners don't make quick turns, it will take more than a few years for Fresno to shake free from decades of disinvestment and low prioritization of parks and green spaces. But the slow course correction is underway.
Fresno shouldn't let dark money from political operatives muddy elections

3 weeks ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

The Fresno political operative behind the sordid campaign mailer smearing a city council candidate and his wife of 30 years could be in hot water with the state agency that enforces election laws. But regardless of the California Fair Political Practices Commission probe into Fresno Future Forward and Alex Tavlian, city officials should take steps to limit political action committee dark money from anonymously muddying future elections.
Fresno voters could face confusing choice between competing tax measures

3 weeks ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

The Highways 41/180 interchange in Fresno appears nearly devoid of cars at around noon on Friday, March 27, 2020. This interchange was built with Measure C funds approved by voters. [email protected] What's worse than an election with one transportation tax? An election with two transportation tax initiatives vying for voter approval on the same ballot.
With $1B price tag, Fresno's newest growth area gets chopped down to size

1 month ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

A drone photo from 2019 shows looks north toward Fresno from the unincorporated community of Lonestar along Fowler Avenue. The area south of Jensen Avenue (visible along the top of the photo), north of North Avenue, east of Minnewawa Avenue and west of Temperance Avenue is called "south SEDA" by Mayor Jerry Dyer, who supports its annexation and development.
Yosemite reservations delay another sign of park service distress under Trump

1 month ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

Water rushes over Bridalveil Fall as seen through the trees in Yosemite Valley near the Bridalveil trail in Yosemite National Park on Friday, April 23, 2021. [email protected] When Yosemite started requiring reservations for drivers entering the park during the busiest months, I wasn't a fan. If overcrowding is such a problem that visitation needs to be controlled, why don't park officials simply set a cap on the number of private automobiles they allow in each day and turn the rest away?
Can Visalia cops please stop stealing from own police explorers? Thanks

1 month ago | fresnobee.com | Marek Warszawski

Law enforcement officers getting arrested for embezzlement is extremely rare, according to the most cited study I could find about the nature and rate of police crime in the U.S.Just not in Tulare County, where dirty cops are on quite a pace of late. The recent arrest of Visalia Police Captain Luma Fahoum for suspicion of from the police explorers program may qualify as a shock, but it can't be described as a one-time occurrence.
Warszawski: A shady bill by ex-utility executive targets rooftop solar

1 month ago | pressdemocrat.com | Marek Warszawski

A Los Angeles lawmaker who previously spent 25 years as an executive at one of California’s largest electricity companies wants to retroactively strip solar power owners of their promised credits. Sounds kind of shady, doesn’t it? The bill by Assemblywoman Lisa Calderon, D-Whittier, proposes to limit the energy credits for solar power generation to 10 years, half the 20-year period previously agreed upon by the state.
Bill to prevent CEMEX blast mine on San Joaquin River gets short shrift

1 month ago | mercedsunstar.com | Marek Warszawski

If the San Joaquin River is to be protected from further harm at the hands of a multinational mining company with a history of environmental violations, help won't be arriving from the state capitol. A bill authored by Assemblymember Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) aimed at squelching CEMEX's controversial blast mine failed to advance from its first committee hearing Monday afternoon in Sacramento.