What do you do when your hometown newspaper dies? That's the question some Clovis residents are asking, but it may soon be on the lips in towns throughout the Valley as layoffs, buyouts and closures continue to bedevil traditional media. Do city officials partner with Clovis Unified to create an insert in the school district's newspaper? Does ...

Chocolate chip cookies, Port of Subs sandwiches, donated time and flip charts -- the modern recipe for grass-roots democracy. More than 120 people -- average age, 55-ish -- packed Clovis Veteran's Memorial Building Monday night for the kind of brain-storming, venting, hobnobbing and see-and-be-seen politicking that happens in ...