By Lourdes Oliva El poder de uno es poder de muchos. En agosto de 2017, en la comunidad de Sanger, CA se comenzó a formar el nuevo capitulo de Vecinos Unidos de la Fundación Dolores Huerta. Sanger, [...] Continue Reading
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Nunes Fuels Protest with Support of Tax Scam
By Bob Turner The weekly Tuesday protest in front of the office of Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare) in Clovis was larger than usual on Dec. 12 as passage of the Republican-backed tax reform measure loomed [...] Continue Reading
10-Year Plan to End Homelessness Reaches 10-Year Mark with No End in Sight
By Gerry Bill To no one’s great surprise, Fresno’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness has failed miserably in achieving its stated goal— to end chronic homelessness in Fresno. The plan was adopted [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – January 2018
By Michael D. Evans What a weird year that we just completed. It was unlike anything we could have imagined. Truth really is sometimes stranger than fiction. But then again, the line between truth [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – January 2018
Teatro de la Tierra By Patricia Wells & Agustin Lira After living in and experiencing the great divide between the rich and the have-nots in Fresno, Patricia and I became aware of the lack of [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Residents Design Their Own Public Transit Line
By Mariah Thompson Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission and was originally published at [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: California Dairies Are Unsustainable
By Tom Frantz The factory dairies of the San Joaquin Valley contribute more to our air pollution and global warming than any other sector. Their onsite ammonia and VOC emissions plus the thousands of [...] Continue Reading
Damned Good Company
By George B. Kauffman Damned Good Company: Twenty Rebels Who Bucked the God Experts by Luis Granados, Humanist Press, 1777 T St. NW, Washington, DC, 2012, $15.00. ISBN 978-0-931779-25-1. The power [...] Continue Reading
What Was Net Neutrality?
By Osiris Godwin Net neutrality seems to be one of those buzzwords that whizzes past us every day. We don’t notice it or pay it much attention; much like a fern in an office, we just assume that it [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Rufino Dominguez
By Eduardo Stanley On Nov. 11, well-known immigrant and indigenous people’s rights activist Rufino Dominguez Santos, 52, died in Fresno. Dominguez was the co-founder of the Binational Front of [...] Continue Reading
Engage in January
MLK Weekend Activities “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need [...] Continue Reading
All Good Things…
By Tiffany A. Potter As I’ve gotten older, I have learned, even welcomed, the adventure that is life. At some point, I began to realize that there was nothing to fear and that, in fact, I was capable [...] Continue Reading