Bell Hopes Transparency Will Help Put City on a New Path
A long running corruption case in the city of Bell, near Los Angeles, is drawing to a close with the trial of Angela Spaccia, a former assistant to ousted city manager Robert Rizzo. Rizzo was the alleged mastermind of a scheme that drained millions of dollars from city coffers and led to the conviction of five city leaders. Now Bell is under new management, and it's adopting a high tech approach to clean government.
What to Do with an Empty Lot in Fresno?
Developers in the Central Valley are sometimes taken to task for paving over valuable farm land for the sake of more suburbs. But this week, the city of Fresno is considering allowing a huge almond orchard just west of downtown, in land zoned for housing.