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Associated Press Interactive: AP Economic Stress Index.

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Check out this front page article in the Fresno Bee and today and check your utility bill.
PG&E denies new ’smart meters’ are inaccurate – Top Stories – Fresnobee.com.
Yesterday a PG&E service man installed a smart meter on our electrical and I told my wife it I thought they already put one on few  months ago.
Our [...]

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Look here!  Al Jazeera in reporting on Fresno.  You might suspect that Al Jazeera’s reporting might have a political slant, but dont let that keep you from reading their news.  Heck, I have them book marked.  You can be certain that they are in better financial shape then the ever shrinking Fresno Bee and McClatchy.
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The Associated Press recently released a map measuring the amount of economic stress being endured by each county in the nation.
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As you can see, All of California has been hit hard and Fresno is no exception.

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Tags: crisis, economy, foreclosures, fresno, [...]

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Saturday at Sunnyside High School.  The event was sponsored by the Central California Cultural Society of India.
I was under the weather all last week with a cold or allergies and on Saturday I finally felt well enough to get out and do something so I browsed the Fresno Bee online and found the advertisement for [...]

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My wife and I and our youngest son took a road trip to Butte Montana to visit Fr. Russel Radoicich and his family.  Fr. Russel, a Fresno native, managed a local Starbucks and was an assistant priest at St Peter the Apostle Serbian Orthodox Church here in Fresno (the church I attend)  up until about [...]

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…The police helicoptor flying overhead in circles above my FJ cruiser was issuing a command through a bullhorn as my oldest son and I were talking to each other yesterday in the late afternoon.  We didnt have a clue as to what was going on but we KNEW we were the only ones in a [...]

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Wow, what’s up with this weird weather?  Earlier today as it was heating up (it was probably around 102 then) we suddenly got a cloud cover and then it RAINED. Now its 109 degrees and the wind is blowing like crazy: weird.
Tags: fresno, weather

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The Fresno Bee reported yesterday that the county has spent more than four years on a proposal to hike building fees.  According to the article “the county fee for a house in unincorporated Fresno County generally would be $4,399. In Fresno, the fee would be $3,357. The fee would be added to other development fees [...]

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We all want to save money so when the AC when out on our Honda Odyssey I called the dealer and was told diagnosis would run $106.00. So I called a local mechanic in the neighborhood and he told me he would charge $30.00 to run a diagnostic.
Well, he had me at $30.00 so [...]

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