I gave a two-word political update the other day to the leadership team at Clovis Community Medical Center.

Sacramento — “Disarray.” DC — “Uncertainty.”

Every year, we go through this budget meltdown that is aorta of California politics. Call it “bad things happening to good people” or, for the cynical, “fat cats getting what they deserve.”

Clovis Unified,” hear this!” Get with the 21st. century and go to books online or books on CD. Please get rid of those large, expensive, back breaking book bricks. They are turning our kids into future othopedic/chiropractic cases. In the case of school books, bigger is not better. I think it might also save a buck.

Clovis Community Medical Center would nearly triple in size over the next 10 years under a plan being proposed by Community Medical Centers.

Local General Motors dealers are trying to figure out what fallout the automaker’s bankruptcy Monday holds for their stores.”The [federal] government is in control, … and we just have to take instructions as they happen,” said Don Bonander, owner of Madera’s Vintage Buick Pontiac Cadillac GMC.

Pelco, one of the largest employers in the San Joaquin Valley, will furlough about 2,000 of its employees this summer.Officials at the Clovis-based security equipment company made the announcement Thursday, blaming a worldwide recession for a backlog of their products.Pelco has already eliminated 36 jobs, frozen salaries, and scaled back its presence at trade shows.

Pelco, one of the San Joaquin Valley’s largest employers, will furlough about 2,000 of its workers for two weeks this summer.Company officials blame a worldwide recession for creating a backlog of unsold Pelco-made video surveillance and security equipment.