By Farin Montanez What does healthy eating look like? Don’t worry. It’s not all kale salads and kombucha. Populations that eat a whole food, plant-based diet have been shown to live longer, healthier [...] Continue Reading
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California: Opposition to Sanctuary State a Planned Conservative Attack
By Eduardo Stanley Several California cities that are under the control of Republican city council members, such as San Diego, Alamitos, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, San Juan Capistrano and Yorba [...] Continue Reading
Deliver a Democracy Genuinely Accountable to the People
By Robert Pethoud Which of the following should be our nation’s highest priority today? Reversing climate change and environmental degradation Lessening wealth disparity Diminishing gun [...] Continue Reading
March for Our Lives Die-In
By Community Alliance Staff At least a half dozen children, teenagers and adults lay motionless outside the Clovis office of Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare). No, it was not another mass shooting, [...] Continue Reading
No Camping Ordinance: Success or Failure?
By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s note: This is the third article of a four-part series on Fresno’s anti-camping ordinance.) Litigation has been compared to the game of chess. The key is to anticipate [...] Continue Reading
Elections Matter. Really!
By Michael D. Evans (Editor’s note: The content below was prepared before the certification of the California primary election scheduled for July 5. Although electoral outcomes are unlikely to change, [...] Continue Reading
Latino Millennial Vote
By Ben Monterroso The young Latino vote will be a key factor in deciding the future of our country; data indicate that they have an unprecedented potential to make their political mark. If Latino [...] Continue Reading
Shame on Us
By Ruth Gadebusch What is happening to would be immigrants on our southern border is unworthy of this nation. What makes it OK for this nation of immigrants to treat asylum seekers in such a dastardly [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – July 2018
Working Class Contradiction Close to 100% of Republican legislators know that 94%–96% of Planned Parenthood funding goes to healthcare services having nothing to do with abortion. So why are they [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – July 2018
Dear Reader, I will begin July by sending my sincere gratitude and appreciation to every one of you who showed your support during our annual Community Alliance Fund-Raiser, which was a huge success. [...] Continue Reading
Let’s Try Real Political Accountability
By Kevin Hall To combat climate change in the San Joaquin Valley, its political climate must change, too. I’ve spent nearly 20 years trying to do just that through a variety of methods: environmental [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Combustion Is the Problem
By Tom Frantz Air pollution in the San Joaquin Valley is described many different ways. For example, there are two basic types of pollution, three classes of chemicals that form it and several [...] Continue Reading