Paper Trail Podcast

Paul and Reggie cover the top three things that defined Tulare County in 2021. They review what happened in homelessness after a man was struck and killed by a car on Highway 99 while living on the embankment in Tulare (2:33); Then they talk about the backlash of masks and vaccine mandates in school after a year of distanced learning that hurt the mental health of students (11:26); The Visalia Police Department faced two federal lawsuits over their use of K-9 deployment which will likely carry on in 2022 (21:23).

Paul and Tootle get together for the last Monday Special episode of 2021 and discuss how the attempted insurrection of Jan. 6, the COVID-19 vaccine and the role of Facebook will be remembered in history.

Paul and Reggie talk about the frustrations Visalia residents have felt about the long delay in the city's redistricting process (3:11); Then they discuss the county's worry over a holiday surge of COVID-19 in light of the Omicron variant (15:03); and then they explain why Exeter passed on their Christmas parade this year (24:41).

Paul and Tootle are back with their Monday Special after a few week hiatus after Thanksgiving. They go over the Supreme Court's initial temperature on a Mississippi law that bans abortions after 15 weeks, and the history of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (2:28); Then they talk about the Federal Reserve's movement toward increasing interest rates to try and reign in inflation (16:00).

https://thesungazette.com/article/education/2021/12/15/villegas-fills-final-vacancy-on-vusd-board/