Z107.7 FM Up Close Show hosted by Gary Daigneault

Open Phone Topics: Joshua Springs Christian School requesting an oversized digital sign for their school. Political reasons behind the community opposing the sign. Separation of church and state. Immigration laws and being able to speak English in the United States. Proper process for immigration. Morongo Basin Community Health Fair.

Open Phone Topics: Wonder Valley Fire Department issues. Claims of unsafe water in Wonder Valley and Twentynine Palms. There is no provision for taxing in Measure L. Only gives light industrial areas the right to cultivate and process marijuana. Water quality aboard the Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center received report from Department of Defense that found high levels of unsafe chemicals in the water wells from fire retardent foam used on aircraft fires. Base claims that the unsafe water is not part of their drinking water aquifer. Joshua Tree National Park visitation up to 2.9 million last year. Deliniators in Yucca Valley helping prevent traffic collisions.

Open Phone Topics: Joshua Tree National Park had 2.9 million visitors to the Park in 2017. Visitors spent more than 138 million dollars in the communities around the Park. Anti-Bullying Task Force formed in the Morongo Basin. Restricting cell phone usage in schools in an attempt to deter cyber bullying at the schools. Requesting enforcement of no cell phone rules in class. Lost hiker in Joshua Tree National Park. Awareness of safety and physical limitations when visiting the Park. Legally blind versus complete blindness. Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center noise complaints in Twentynine Palms.

Open Phone Topics: Hi Desert Medical Center employees picketting for Tenet Healthcare to Unionize. Wonder Valley water situation and firefighters. High floride content in the local water mottles teeth. Wonder Valley has wells, no water district. Southern California Edison time of use rates.

Open Phone Topics: New Joshua Tree National Park service fee increases. New delineators installedoin dangerous stretch of highway in Yucca Valley. Dust storm in Joshua Tree. Brief zero visibility due to Haboob - a wall of sand and dust due to atmospheric conditions.

Open Phone Topics: Marijuana cultivation is suggested (by the Inland Empire’s Top Economist for the past 15 years) as a form of revenue and tax income for the Morongo Basin. City of 29 Palms and Town of Yucca Valley are not willing to take advantage of possible income in the form of medical marijuana cultivation, processing and sales. Town and city officials are not willing to consider even highly-regulated marijuana processing as a source of income. Tapping into the potential for more tourist income in our area.

Open Phone Topics: Bullying in schools. Discussion of bullying prevention beginning at home with teaching good values and kindness. Anti-bullying campaigns sparked in the Morongo Basin due to child being bullied for having Autism at the local Junior High School. Bully's abuse was videotaped.

Open Phone Topics: Five steps to secure your Facebook Privacy Settings in the midst of the Cambridge Analytics private information scandal. Using Facebook to connect with friends and family versus discussing politics or trolling. Town of Yucca Valley district maps. Yucca Valley had to change voting to District Voting. Measure L to allow Marijuana cultivation and processing in small industrial areas in Yucca Valley. Marijuana sales will still be prohibited. Individuals dumping trash into the desert.

In Studio Guests: Tom Baumgarten, Superintendent, Morongo Unified School District. Wayne Hamilton, Community Outreach Coordinator for Homeless Students. Homelessness. Works with Morongo Unified School District homeless students. 500 students currently. Transportation. Waivers of requirements until parents get on their feet. Employment. Turning on utilities. Removing the barriers so kids have access to schooling. Free and reduced price lunches. Homelessness is not a crime, but not taking advantage of services available to help your children is the crime. Many homeless families are afraid of losing their children. Parents being too proud to ask for help. Process involved in legally homeschooling your children. You must register and fill out affidavits to homeschool your children. Grab and Go program. Students can grab food at the end of the day to take home.

Open Phone Topics: Homeless family living in a plywood box in the Sunfair area of Joshua Tree. Line between child cruelty and homelessness. When does homelessness become a crime. Sheriff’s Department determined the living situation was a danger to the children. Many Americans live paycheck to paycheck. No running water or electricity created a sanitation issue for the homeless family. Regulations regarding structures for the homeless are complicated.

Open Phone Topics: Gun control in America. Common sense versus extreme gun control. Recent school shootings locally and regionally. Shooting threat at our local Yucca Valley High School. Security measures at local schools. Arrest of potential shooter after threat investigation. Active shooter drills at local schools.

Open Phone Topics: Proposed rate increase for Joshua Basin Water District. The level of the increase is being criticized. Americans for Disabilities act. Bill curbs unscrupulous lawyers from seeking litigation without warning the business and giving it time to make accessibility modifications. Fair access for the disabled without frivolous lawsuits. Joshua Tree National Park can only use entrance fees for park maintenance. Park budget will be cut by 11 percent. Successful Yucca Valley High School music boosters radiothon fundraiser to send the Select Choir to Washington DC.

Open Phone Topics: Joshua Tree National Park attendance record for 2017 is 2,853,619 visitors. Joshua Basin Water District 50 percent rate increase, eventually 90 percent over a 5-year period. Proposed public funds used for Grubstake Days rodeo. Water District Board voting unanimously for rate increases. Morongo basin man guilty of two counts of attempted murder took a plea bargain and only spent 178 days in jail.

Open Phone Topics: Immigration. DACA. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department upgrading to digitally encrypted scanners. Joshua Tree National Park shuttle service. Shuttle service doesn't offer proper parking in the village of Joshua Tree. Pedestrian collision. Pedestrian was intoxicated.

Open Phone Topics: Delineators in Morongo Valley on the Morongo Grade. Criticism of Caltrans traffic engineers. California formerly declared opposition to Federal Immigration Laws. California is now a Sanctuary State. Local officers are now prohibited from cooperating with Immigration officers and will warn inmates wanted by border patrol. State of California has the authority over Mobile Home Parks, but the local government does not.