Por Laura Ledesma ¿Cómo es que una mujer mexicana proveniente de un pueblito michoacano es una maestra de una escuela secundaria en California? La respuesta es sencilla, con dedicación. Al igual que [...] Continue Reading
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Editoral – Marzo 2018
Por Lourdes Oliva En lo que va del 2018 la comunidad migrante del valle central ha tenido que soportar más de un susto de ser deportados o buscados por parte de “ICE” por sus siglas en inglés [...] Continue Reading
Amor Más Allá de las Fronteras
By Raquel Enríquez G. La realidad y los lazos de afecto entre las personas son más fuertes que cualquier discurso presidencial. Mientras las palabras del presidente norteamericano se empeñan en [...] Continue Reading
Women’s March Fresno #HearOurVote
More than 1,500 Fresnans convened in the River Park area to commemorate the first anniversary of the Women’s March. A slate of dynamic speakers energized the crowd at a rally preceding the march. Many [...] Continue Reading
Selling Out Jobs
By Art Rodriguez The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) sold out our jobs. By spearheading the American Competitiveness Act, the DOD became the responsible party for the biggest job-killer in our [...] Continue Reading
What Happened at Pacifica? It’s Complicated
By Peter Maiden “When I talk to people about it their eyes glaze over,” said Rych Withers, station manager at Fresno’s KFCF. Yet there’s been genuine concern among KFCF listeners that Pacifica, the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – February 2018
By Michael D. Evans At a recent Fresno City Council meeting prior to a vote on an industrial park project, District 2 City Council Member Steve Brandau admonished one of the community groups [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – February 2018
Understanding West Fresno I want to thank Kevin Hall (“A Fresno Epiphany,” December 2017 Community Alliance) for highlighting an issue that Black and Brown West Fresno residents have known for a long [...] Continue Reading
Trust Black People: Black Political Engagement in Fresno
By Sarah Hayes Trust Black Women was the trending hashtag coming out of Alabama the day after the special Senate election there. Leading into the election, coverage echoed that the outcome would [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Air District Chief Leaving
By Tom Frantz The end of an era has come at the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. Seyed Sadredin is retiring after more than 10 years as the chief executive officer. A look at his [...] Continue Reading
Candidate Without a Prayer
By George B. Kauffman Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt. By Herb Silverman. Pitchstone Publishing, Charlottesville, VA. 2012, $22.95. ISBN [...] Continue Reading
Organized Camps Initial Solution to Unsheltered Homelessness in Fresno
By Paul Thomas Jackson Editor’s note: “Organized Camps” is the first article in a three-part series on homelessness in Fresno. In Fresno, the plight of unsheltered homelessness affects all but those [...] Continue Reading