The October 2024 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 October 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There [...] Continue Reading
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Thanks to Voters, Fresno Supports the Arts
Measure P, the ⅜-cent sales tax approved by Fresno residents a few years back to improve local parks and support the arts, is finally here. Literally. On Sept. 5, the Fresno Arts Council (FAC), led by [...] Continue Reading
Radio Bilingüe: Building a Dream
Local community radio station Radio Bilingüe on Sept. 19 announced an ambitious plan to build a plaza, “a beautiful, sustainably designed community space where we can train more Fresno youth and [...] Continue Reading
Artists Unhappy with City Involvement in ArtHop
On Sept. 5, a protest called “ReHop” (@rehopfresno on Instagram) took place on Kern and Fulton streets in Fresno. The event was carried out by artists unhappy with the City’s recent decision regarding [...] Continue Reading
Lights Out!
Heat is dwindling, but the cold is coming soon. With PG&E prices, the Central Valley better bundle up. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), an investor-owned utility company that powers [...] Continue Reading
“Hated Just for Being Homeless”
In the early morning of Aug. 26, while he was sound asleep in front of Cuca’s Mexican Restaurant on Olive Avenue in the Tower District, an unhoused 47-year-old Latino, Fred “Freddy” F. De La Rosa, was [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Community Alliance Receives Journalism Award We are already in October. When this newspaper hits the streets on Oct. 1, Mexico will have its first female president. Scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Where Does the Money Go? Where has all the federal funding gone? Fresno received lots and lots of money, so where may it be hiding? Fresno was supposed to build lots of tiny homes and remodel “old” [...] Continue Reading
Statue of Nelson Mandela Unveiled at Fresno State
On Sept 12, a statue of Nelson Mandela was unveiled at Fresno State. The Nelson Mandela monument is the newest addition to the Fresno State Peace Garden, which houses monuments dedicated to Mahatma [...] Continue Reading
State Seeks to Rescue What’s Left of Valley’s Nature
The San Joaquin Valley has been described as the nation’s most transformed landscape. It has been industrialized with agriculture, resource extraction and spreading urbanization. It has been called a [...] Continue Reading
Military Madness
BY BOB MCCLOSKEY “Military madness is killing your country, So much sadness, between you and me, War, war, war, war, war, war.” —Graham Nash War Abroad and at Home Against the [...] Continue Reading
Prop 36 a Dangerous Ruse
California Proposition 36, the Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative, is on the November ballot. If passed by voters, years of successful sentencing reform and [...] Continue Reading