Weekly Issues
Radio shake-up, casino mark year
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- Published on 12/21/2012 - 10:08 am
- Written by Clay Moffitt
Sports & Entertainment
The drama of the sporting industry was not limited to the playing field in 2012.
Possibly the biggest shake up came when 940ESPN emerged the winner of a bitter bidding rights battle for the Fresno State football and men’s basketball radio broadcasting rights. Previously KMJ owned the rights for more than four decades.
Carolyn Pierce
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- Published on 12/21/2012 - 8:57 am
- Written by The Business Journal Staff
Carolyn Pierce
President
Heald College, Fresno
What we do: For 150 years, Heald College’s mission has been to prepare students for academic, personal, and professional success through quality career-focused programs that develop skills to last a lifetime. Since its establishment, Heald College has evolved into a leading career college that offers a range of programs in the health care, business, legal and technology fields. Heald College has 12 campuses throughout the western United States including California, Oregon, and Hawaii and serves more than 16,000 students. Heald College has been in Fresno since 1906.
Education: B.A., business-economics UCLA; M.B.A University of Redlands
Age: 52
Manufacturer donates for Sandy relief
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- Published on 12/21/2012 - 8:50 am
- Written by The Business Journal Staff
MANUFACTURING
Fresno-based Tempest Technology Corp. has donated equipment to the Moonachie Fire Department to help the small New Jersey borough rebuild its station that was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.
Tempest provided the fire department with a 16-inch smoke ejector and an 18-inch positive pressure fan, as well as two VentMaster Fire Rescue Chainsaws.
“We manufacture and sell ventilation equipment to fire departments around the world, but more importantly, we hope to be a means of support for those same firefighters when they need it most,” said Johan Gidstedt, the president of Tempest, in a release.
Report: Great outdoors a magnet for West
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 11:09 am
- Written by Ben Keller
The San Joaquin Valley is well known for its proximity to national parks, beaches and wide-open spaces.
Until recently, those things have been thought of as solely a magnet for tourists who come to see the sights and then pack up again for their homes across the country or overseas.
A report released last month by nonprofit research group Headwaters Economics lays out evidence that communities near publicly protected lands where natural wonders and wilderness are accessible have a greater economic advantage for those living there.
Fresno Bee starts paywall for website
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 11:06 am
- Written by Chuck Harvey
McClatchy Co. newspapers — including The Fresno Bee — have adopted an online paywall system that requires a paid subscription in order to continue reading stories after a set number of visits to the digital site.
Readers have the option of bundling their print subscription with digital service or subscribing to digital only. The Bee calls the digital service Fresno Bee+.
Sandwich franchise expands to South Valley
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 11:06 am
- Written by Clay Moffitt
Fresno-based franchise Deli Delicious will open its first South Valley sandwich shop next week in Visalia.
The 1,100 square-foot store will be located at 4130 S Mooney Blvd. in Visalia. The chain currently operates 12 locations between Fresno and Clovis.
Visalia shopping center seeks megaplex movie theater
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 11:02 am
- Written by John Lindt
Visalia shopping center owner DBO Development is in advanced discussions with three movie theater chains to open a multi-screen theater on the south end of town to anchor the next phase of its Packwood Creek Shopping Center.
“We expect to have a commitment from one of the chains by February,” said Patrick Orosco of DBO.
Orosco has been marketing the next phase of Packwood Creek — Visalia’s largest retail complex — called The Grove at Packwood Creek, a 25-acre, 278,300 square-foot center with the help of Fresno-based Commercial Retail Associates.
Fresno’s brewing legacy comes full-circle
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 10:58 am
- Written by Charles McCarthy
A two-story office building remains empty at M Street and Heaton Avenue, marking the spot of Fresno’s first and largest commercial brewery, but a three-story building that once housed the second-largest brewery survives at Blackstone and Hedges avenues, amid mystery and rumors.
Meanwhile, nearly 80 years after Prohibition’s end, Fresno is seeing an emergence of micro brewing. Plenty of the suds now served in Fresno are brewed on-the-spot in downtown Fresno and the Tower District.
Valley hospitals provide varying levels of charity care
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 9:44 am
- Written by Michael Kincheloe
With a growing number of low-income residents across the Valley, area hospitals are seeing a high number of hospital patients who cannot afford to pay their bills.
Medical services for hospital patients who are not covered by a welfare program like Medi-Cal fall into the category of uncompensated, or “charity” care. The amount of charity care provided over a year’s time varies among the area’s non-profit hospitals.
Teri McNally Brymer
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- Published on 12/14/2012 - 9:42 am
- Written by The Business Journal Staff
Teri McNally Brymer
President
California Business Machines
What we do: California Business Machines helps Central Valley business people manage change, streamline workflow and control document-related expenses by providing quality office automation technology, solutions and services.
Education: B.S., health science, Fresno State 1976
Age: 58
Family: Married 29 years to John Brymer. Youngest of 5 siblings — Mike, Maureen, Tim, & Marc — all of whom worked in the family business at one time or another. Brother Tim McNally is a shareholder and sales rep at CBM. Parents and founders are Ray and Lorraine McNally, both deceased.
