By Montse Reyes Atwater maybe well on its way to bankruptcy, according to some City Council officials, placing among the ranks of other Californian cities such as Stockton and San Bernardino. With [...] Continue Reading
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Clearing the Air – Oct. 2012: Particulate Matters a Lot
By Kevin Hall In a presentation before a class of 15 Fresno State seniors last month, I conducted a poll of these intelligent, highly educated, computer-literate, smartphone-owning future entrants [...] Continue Reading
Is the Jesse Morrow Mountain Struggle Over?
By Chip Ashley On Aug. 28, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors did not reverse the Planning Commission’s denial of Cemex’s application to mine Jesse Morrow Mountain. So is this fight to save the [...] Continue Reading
Electoral Strategy from the Grassroots
By Mike Rhodes In September, we asked our readers to tell us their opinions about local, state and federal candidates and the state propositions. We want to share with you their progressive analysis [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Never Ceases to Amaze Me
By Gerry Bill Cuba does many of the things that other countries do, but somehow it manages to do them just a bit differently and, in many cases, a bit better. Even though this was my seventh trip [...] Continue Reading
American Voluntarism
By Alfonso C. Hernandez One of the best qualities of the American people, not much touted about, is the quality of voluntarism. Everywhere one looks, there are volunteers: in churches, schools, [...] Continue Reading
Medicare 101
By Dan Yaseen If you are 65 or older, disabled or turning 65 you have to deal with Medicare. Understanding Medicare can be a daunting task for many people. The Social Security Act Amendments of [...] Continue Reading
Fresno AIDS Walk
By Toni Harrison On July 30, 1985, I remember watching the news and seeing a dark, dismal and scary airport scene where Rock Hudson was wheeled from a plane, having just returned from Paris, where he [...] Continue Reading
Our Future Is Now
By Kaylia Metcalfe By the time this issue comes out, I will have become a mother. (I am due any second now, typing between contractions, so I feel pretty confident that the world will have a new [...] Continue Reading
The Lessons of History and Privatization of Public Services
By Matthew Ari Jendian The Fresno City Council voted 4-3 to hire a Walnut Creek firm to investigate outsourcing residential trash service on Aug. 16. The majority of the City Council was led by Lee [...] Continue Reading
