

Arts and Culture Calendar for March 2025
// By Community Alliance
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Fútbol: Grandes Cambios para Fuego
// By Peter Maiden
El Central Valley Fuego Football Club ha abandonado la tercera división de la USL 1 y, como si hubiera descendido a una liga menor como resultado de su segunda temporada consecutiva en el último lugar [...] Continue Reading

Rogue Festival 2025
// By I. smiley G. Calderon
Brace yourself for some grassroots fun as Rogue 2025 is finally upon us. This now famous fringe festival was founded in 2002 and, through grit and glory, is hailed as one of the oldest and most [...] Continue Reading

Peace and Social Justice Calendar for March 2025
// By Community Alliance
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Arte y Cultura de Fresno para Marzo de 2025
// By Community Alliance
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Festival Rogue 2025
// By I. smiley G. Calderon
Prepárate para disfrutar de un poco de diversión de base, ya que Rogue 2025 finalmente está aquí. Este ahora famoso festival alternativo se fundó en 2002 y, con coraje y gloria, es aclamado como uno [...] Continue Reading

Soccer: Big Changes for Fuego
// By Peter Maiden
Central Valley Fuego Football Club has left the third-tier USL 1 league and, as if relegated into a lesser league as the result of its second consecutive season at the bottom of the standings, has [...] Continue Reading

From the Editor
// By Eduardo Stanley
When the Dark Becomes Even Darker A few years ago, no one would have imagined that the President of our country would be someone with so many charges against him, with so many bankruptcies (four) [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor
// By Community Alliance
Laken Riley Act Denies Due Process Thank you for the article by Edward Kissam on immigrant rights published in your February 2025 edition and your editorial on the same subject. I appreciated the [...] Continue Reading

Workers Demand Protections from Fresno Unified
// By Paulina Deeds Ortiz
The fight for stability in Fresno’s education system took center stage on Feb. 12 as bus drivers, teachers and essential school workers rallied outside the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) Board [...] Continue Reading

Fresno County BOS Passes Plan for Feds
// By Rachel Youdelman
On Feb. 11, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) passed an update to its federal legislative platform and approved Homekey funding for supportive housing. A lively discussion on repeal of the [...] Continue Reading

Chavez Hails Trump, Costa Caves
// By Kevin Hall
The tentacles of the ongoing fascist coup d’etat are touching Fresno in some surprising and not so surprising ways. Trump’s blitz on the rule of law, taken right from the 1933 Nazi playbook, revealed [...] Continue Reading

Missing from the Inaugural Address and Executive Orders
// By Tim Kutzmark, Ida Jones, Sharon Bell Stevens and Steve Sacks
We once had a thriving middle class where each generation could get ahead of their parents’ generation, where there were few unhoused people and catastrophic environmental disasters rarely occurred. [...] Continue Reading

Huron, Heart of the Valley
// By Vic Bedoian
Heart of the Valley. That is Huron’s motto. The words are even emblazoned on the new bridge on State Route 269 as it crosses Los Gatos Creek just before entering town. In a very real sense, it is [...] Continue Reading

Digital Red Wave
// By Paulina Deeds Ortiz
The U.S. government hasn’t officially pulled the plug on TikTok yet, but to many users, it’s already dead. U.S. users report videos vanish without warning and political content not circulating like it [...] Continue Reading

Firewalls Falling
// By Zarina Zabrisky
Dark Parallels: Munich On Feb. 14, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a dark joke at Munich Security Conference 2025, saying that there will be no agreement because “well, it is [...] Continue Reading

Too Young to Die in a Nuclear War
// By Bob McCloskey
The world’s richest man, President Donald Trump’s hatchet man Elon Musk, and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have unbridled access to the government’s data and computer [...] Continue Reading

Navigating the Tension
// By Debay Tadesse
Nationalism and globalization are two decisive factors that, in the modern world, influence nations’ political, economic and social landscapes. Although both ideas have a great deal of power to shape [...] Continue Reading

A Glimmer of Hope
// By Ruth Gadebusch
Following the results of the November 2024 election, hope has been in short supply. Previous experience with the man elected President left no room to hope that someone thought inadequate for the job [...] Continue Reading

“Yanking the Hook”: Modern-Day Gambling
// By Steven Roesch
It’s something “worth celebrating”—at least according to a December 2024 cover story in The Economist. The development that’s making the magazine so enthusiastic: a recent explosion of gambling [...] Continue Reading

Un Llamado a Rendir Cuentas: El Impacto de la Ley Laken Riley y la Traición a las Comunidades Latinas del Valle Central
// By Espi Sandoval
(Nota del editor: La Ley Laken Riley fue nombrada en honor a Laken Riley, una joven estudiante universitaria asesinada por un inmigrante indocumentado venezolano el 22 de febrero de 2024. El [...] Continue Reading
