For a small radio station, KFCF, with its unique and eclectic blend of offerings, has left a big footprint in Fresno throughout its 50 years of broadcasting in the Valley region. All the while, the [...] Continue Reading
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Trump and Schwarzenegger Share Values
(Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Fresno Bee on Aug. 28.) Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced his opposition to current governor Gavin Newsom’s [...] Continue Reading
Reliving Fresno’s Progressive Past
If we don’t want the government (particularly the Trump administration) telling us what to think, it is time for a people’s history of Fresno. The Community Alliance is doing its part by making an [...] Continue Reading
Intercambio de Agujas Pierde su Oficina en el Condado
El 19 de agosto, la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de Fresno votó a favor de suspender la financiación de un espacio para el Programa de Reducción de Daños Integrales de Fresno en el edificio del [...] Continue Reading
La Gran Huelga de la Uva de Delano de 1965: Lecciones para Construir una Coalición Multiétnica
POR BOB McCLOSKEY e I.SMILEY CALDERON “Recuerdo, de niño, a los tres o cuatro años, asistir a los funerales de hombres en Pixley, Arvin, Ducor, Visalia, por todo el Valle Central. Estos hombres [...] Continue Reading
Race and Racism in American History
The President’s military D.C. parade on June 14—which was sparsely attended versus the millions who turned out for the No Kings Day throughout the nation—was missing an honorary contingent of marching [...] Continue Reading
FPD Patronizing Store That Violates Firearms Laws?
At a Sept. 20 symposium hosted by Enough Gun Violence/Brady Greater Fresno (EGV/BGF), experts and advocates raised alarm over law enforcement firearm procurement practices and their potential link to [...] Continue Reading
SOS! SOS! SOS!
Did you hear that glub, glub, glub sound like the last gasp for air before sinking irretrievably under the water? Or was it our forefathers turning over twirling in their graves as the mob’s feet [...] Continue Reading
“A Mine Awaiting Extraction”
Books about the business world usually aren’t compelling page-turners. And yet Megan Greenwell accomplishes exactly this in Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream, her deep [...] Continue Reading
No More Broken Promises
For decades, rural communities in California have carried the burden of toxic pesticides sprayed near their homes, schools and workplaces. Among the worst is 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), a [...] Continue Reading
Provoking a War with Venezuela?
On Sept. 15, the United States announced that another boat in international waters thousands of miles from the U.S. coast had been bombed by U.S. forces, killing three people. Daphne Eviatar, [...] Continue Reading











