Mono Lake is an ancient saline lake and the centerpiece of the Mono Basin National Scenic Area. It is an important landscape for migrating and nesting birds. For the California gull population, it is [...] Continue Reading
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Building Tomorrow’s EMS Workforce EMS Corps Fresno is a new, high-impact program launched under the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board. This initiative is preparing the next generation of [...] Continue Reading
Political Privilege, Pipelines and Pollution
(Editor’s note: The author has contributed to the Sandra Celedon for Assembly campaign.) Turns out the privilege that sees mediocre students ushered into top colleges as legacy admissions and [...] Continue Reading
Aumento de la Fiebre del Valle en el Valle
Agosto es el Mes de Concientización sobre la Fiebre del Valle, y muchos residentes del Valle desean saber qué la causa, cómo proteger a sus familias, cuáles son los síntomas y las medidas [...] Continue Reading
Las Políticas de Trump Están Aplastando los Sueños de los Emprendedores Inmigrantes
(Nota del editor: esta nota se reproduce con el permiso de American Community Media) Las pequeñas empresas, los mayores creadores de empleo en Estados Unidos, se enfrentan a los efectos adversos [...] Continue Reading
Authoritarian Policing in Fresno and D.C.
A 2025 report titled “Driven by Bias: An Analysis of Police Stops in Fresno” by Catalyst California in partnership with Fresno Building Healthy Communities finds that “the Fresno Police Department [...] Continue Reading
How Do We Fight Back?
It is easy to feel hopeless. It is hard to watch the news. We ask ourselves what is the best way to resist the fascist Trump regime. There is no one silver bullet, but many essential activities—mass [...] Continue Reading
“Pride” and Prejudice
Bredefeld’s Homophobia Drives Policy Following the June 10 Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting, when Supervisor Garry Bredefeld (District 2) melted down over the Pride Parade and his [...] Continue Reading
Valley Fever Surges in the Valley
August is Valley Fever Awareness Month, and many Valley residents want to know what causes Valley fever, how to protect their families and what the symptoms are, as well as preventive measures. The [...] Continue Reading
Words Are Insufficient
Never did we expect to see our nation collapse—explode?—in slow motion in our time. We have long known that all the great empires of history had sooner or later collapsed, but we thought we were the [...] Continue Reading
Blue Triangle Symbolizes Immigrant Solidarity
In the face of escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy, a growing movement is drawing a stark and necessary line from the past to the present. With the launch of the Blue Triangle Solidarity [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Threats and Attacks in Latin America
In August, Trump secretly issued a directive approving use of military force in other countries “to target Latin American drug cartels.” This would give the Pentagon authority to invade other [...] Continue Reading