Jan. 20 was the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, and the City of Fresno held its annual march and rally in commemoration of the civil rights leader. Fresno is unusual in holding a City-sponsored [...] Continue Reading
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The February 2025 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 February 2025 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages [...] Continue Reading
MAGA 2.0: What’s ahead?
There has been much speculation about what the incoming Trump administration and his MAGA base have in store for the country. Despite vehement denials by Trump and his running mate (what was his [...] Continue Reading
Bishop Calls Out Trump to His Face
On his second day as President, Donald Trump attended a church service at the Washington National Cathedral, where Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde used her sermon to deliver a pointed message to the new [...] Continue Reading
Keeping It Real with the Revolutionary MLK
Each year on the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., people who hated him and everything that he worked for, spoke and wrote for, went to jail for and ultimately died for, take his name [...] Continue Reading
Rally Against Pesticide 1,3-D in Visalia
Farmworkers, community leaders and environmental advocates gathered in Visalia to protest the use of the pesticide 1,3-Dichloropropene (1,3-D or Telone) and demand stronger regulatory protections from [...] Continue Reading
Golden Inhalers To Be Awarded
Spend a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner listening to the 4th Annual Smoggies, Fresno’s only awards ceremony for political malfeasance and climate avoidance. Journalists will be honored for capturing [...] Continue Reading
Managing Valley Aquifers
California recently celebrated 10 years since the enacting of the State Groundwater Management Act, the landmark legislation known by the acronym SGMA. The law mandated that overdrafted groundwater [...] Continue Reading
“Punishing and Insulting the Poor”
It’s a problem that many employees face now and then: What should they do if they have a truly awful boss? Several workers in Adelle Waldman’s Help Wanted share this problem, and they came up with [...] Continue Reading