It was the marriage of whiplash and deja vu. Hours before Gov. Schwarzenegger debuted the latest version of a hellish state budget proposal, the University of California's governing Board of Regents gave a unanimous thumbs-up for continued planning for a multi-million-dollar Valley medical school headquartered at UC Merced. Among the regents ...

All the important feel-good words were there at the Fresno Board of Supes, which unanimously endorsed a resolution to bring a UC med school to the San Joaquin Valley. Partnership.... Pipelines.... Collaboration.... Unity.... All the sound reasoning was also present at the Jan. 29 vote. The Valley is short of doctors ... Short of allied medical ...