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.