“The integrated yard policy (IYP) is per force a staged fight because integrating rival factions will always lead to violence…In my experience, the IYP was always a device used to break the leadership [...] Continue Reading
Hunger Strike at Immigration Detention Centers
On Feb. 26, several detainees at two immigration detention centers in Kern County—the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde—went on a hunger strike to protest inhumane treatment and unsanitary conditions. [...] Continue Reading
Maderans Receive Insight to Hospital Closure
By Johanna Torres The Madera Community Hospital (MCH) announced its closure less than a week before officially closing last year, leaving Maderans with many questions and concerns. As the MCH [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Supervisors File Frivolous Lawsuit Using Public Dollars
On March 14, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted 3-2 to sue the State of California, using public dollars to favor a racist, sexist, derogatory name. They vote in a closed-door session [...] Continue Reading
Recall Supervisor Nathan Magsig
By Linda Tubach Fresno County Supervisor Nathan Magsig has led the Fresno County Board of Supervisors to decide to sue the State of California to stop the replacement of S— Valley’s racist and [...] Continue Reading
Fresno: A Tale of Two Cities
Fresno is two cities, like most American cities. It’s a city of haves and have nots. It’s near the bottom of the list in America for income equality. Some of the haves are employers who fail to pay [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
City and County Leadership? One wonders what is wrong with Fresno—with the “leaders” of the city and the county. The City of Fresno closed its three warming centers on the morning of March 21 in [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
About Your “Prison Gladiator Fights” Article Reader comments regarding “California Prison Gladiator Fights, Again!” (March 2023 issue): First of all, that was a really good article. You covered [...] Continue Reading
Some Thoughts on the Stop the Hate Campaign
By Alexia Baca Morgan I am a 65-year-old Hispanic female from Albuquerque, N.M., who lives in Fresno. In my childhood, which took place in the 1960s and 1970s, my family and many Black and Brown [...] Continue Reading
Tools to Defend Ourselves
As a child, I knew what hate incidents and hate crimes felt like even though I didn’t know there were terms for them. I knew that gut feeling—the fear and uncertainty. Was I over-exaggerating? Was [...] Continue Reading
“Natural Energy” Initiative Fires Up
Fresno politicos joined hands, linked arms and stood tall with private interests on the first of the month and announced a bold new direction for the county’s one million–plus urban and rural [...] Continue Reading
Rumor Has It
By R.J. Mitch Cantwell If the Tea Party QAnon Republicans take over our government, the United States will have to change the Pledge of Allegiance to the following: “I pledge allegiance to the flag [...] Continue Reading