The December 2025 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the December 2025 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading
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From the Editor
Hello. I’m Peter Maiden, interim editor of the Community Alliance newspaper. I’m stepping into the big shoes of Eduardo Stanley while the newspaper decides who will be the next editor. We have a [...] Continue Reading
The Authoritarian Graveyard
Say Their Names Say the names of some of those that have died in ICE custody this year: Ismael Ayala Uribe, Chao Feng Ge, Isidro Perez, Marie Ange Blaise, Maksym Chemyak, Brayan Rayo-Garzon and [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Protect the People or Sell Us Out to CEMEX The proposed Rockfield expansion isn’t just another project, it’s a direct threat to our health and our future. Fresno already has some of the worst air [...] Continue Reading
Tower District Crime Report
On Nov. 7, Rych Withers, KFCF 88.1 FM station manager, was dropping off some mail at the Tower District Post Office when he noticed a man taking all the Community Alliance newspapers from the [...] Continue Reading
Sidestepping the Big Questions
At the Nov. 4 Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting, symbolic proclamations, vulgar humor and self-congratulation shared the dais with weightier matters—from homelessness management to executive [...] Continue Reading
Is Zohran Mamdani an African American?
Congratulations to Zohran Mamdani for winning the New York City mayoral election and becoming the first Muslim, first South Asian American and third African American to become mayor of New York [...] Continue Reading
Direct Action Downtown
On Nov. 5, a small group of local activists gathered to deliver a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta. Outside the Attorney General’s Fresno satellite office, they shouted their pleas for [...] Continue Reading
Half of Farmworkers Are Food Insecure
The Central Valley is a fertile farm belt that expands for about 20,000 square miles and supplies one-fourth of the nation’s food. Fresno County alone is considered one of the most agriculturally [...] Continue Reading
Educational Alarm
An educational crisis is spreading quietly across Fresno County, and it begins long before high school. The latest 2024–2025 CAASPP (California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress) results [...] Continue Reading
Nile Water Disputes and Regional Solutions
The Nile River has served as the backbone of life and civilization. Flowing through northeastern Africa, the Nile River is the longest river in the world, spanning approximately 6,650 to 6,850 [...] Continue Reading
Garbage into Gold
Managing biological waste in a new way that might cost a third less and produce higher value compost could help fight climate change, improve food quality and security, and create increased income [...] Continue Reading