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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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