Tuesdays with Terry: Lobster Budgets, AI, Bigfoot and Old Gaming Consoles

The Wall Street Journal criticizes the Pentagon for spending millions on luxury seafood, including lobster, and other high‑end catering, arguing it reflects a culture of unchecked excess inside the Defense Department.  AI chatbots are now “poisoning” academic research by inventing realistic-soundi…

Tuesdays with Terry: Iran News Coverage & A Counterterrorism Official Resigns

The Wall Street Journal argues that coverage of Iran has become relentlessly one‑sided and alarmist, dominated by worst‑case scenarios that downplay Tehran’s own aggression and internal weaknesses. The editorial says Americans are being fed “only bad news fit to print,” distorting public understand…

Student Walkouts, Missing Dolly Parton Funds & Capitol Bomber

Clovis Unified School District did not see a significant increase in absences last month due to a student walkout, data shows. Absenteeism data acquired by The Fresno Bee, per California’s Public Records Act, shows that on Feb. 10, Clovis Unified recorded 642 unexcused absences, including 211 high …

Clovis Sex Offender Fired By Starbucks

Samuel Garza III, a Clovis Starbucks shift supervisor who had worked there for eight years and earned “Employee of the Month,” is suing after being fired in June 2025 for being a registered sex offender. He claims Starbucks was aware of his conviction at hiring, following his 2017 release, and that…

The SAVE America Act Showdown & Markwayne Mullin's Bid For DHS Secretary

About 83% of Americans, including roughly 71% of Democrats, support requiring photo ID to vote, per Pew Research—making it one of the most popular provisions in the GOP’s SAVE America Act.  However, Democrats say the broader legislation—including proof-of-citizenship requirements—amounts to modern …

Allegations Against Cesar Chavez Prompt Cancelled Celebrations

The United Farm Workers and César Chávez Foundation have canceled Cesar Chavez Day celebrations after learning of “deeply troubling” allegations of abuse involving minors linked to the late farm workers' leader even though no direct reports have surfaced. The groups say they’ll convene a safe, conf…

The Squabble Over A Wealthy Father’s Fresno County Estate

A Fresno County elder‑theft trial is exposing a bitter stepsister feud over a wealthy father’s estate, with prosecutors accusing stepdaughter Gina Abercrombie and her boyfriend of stealing $700,000 before his death. Defense attorneys fired back by attacking the credibility of the victim’s biologica…

Fresno Unified Trustee Thomas Tries to Erase Accusations & Alabama Teen Comes To Mother's Aid

Fresno Unified trustee Keshia Thomas has retracted her 2022 claim that former Bullard High football coach Don Arax used the N‑word toward her son, telling a deposition, “I never said he called my son the N‑word,” despite earlier on‑record accusations. Arax, who was removed as coach in 2023, is now …

Fresno Loses $15.4 Million Racial Discrimination Verdict Reaction with Rodger Bonakdar

Legal Analyst Rodger Bonakdar stops by to talk about the federal jury that ordered Fresno to pay $15.4 million in a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by former code enforcement employees La-Kebbia “Kiki” Wilson and Charles Smith, after Wilson was subjected to racial slurs and re…

FCC Chair Brendan Carr: Broadcast Licenses Are Not A "Property Right”

FCC Chair Brendan Carr reiterated that broadcast licenses are not property rights, warning that networks could lose their licenses if they air “hoaxes” or distort the news—particularly regarding war coverage.  Critics, including Democrats and the FCC's lone Democratic commissioner, argue his stance…