By Rumi Sherriff Recently, substitute teacher David Roberts was banned from future employment at Clovis West High School for simply wearing a “Black Lives Matter” button while teaching. A key [...] Continue Reading
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From the Editor – January 2017
By Hannah Brandt “We are not fundamentally a different country today than we were a month ago. . . The same country that elected Donald Trump, elected Barack Obama. . . This election is just another [...] Continue Reading
WINDOWS TEN
By Uncle Bill Windows Ten, Windows Ten Go away, don’t come again! Each new system drives me mad! What’s wrong with keeping what we had? Each “feature” complicates the mess. I find I can do less and [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – January 2017
Community Alliance Lifts Spirits By Daniel Holmes Hello to you at Community Alliance. I had the good fortune to come across one of your little newsletter papers in here – Wow! You people are really [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Demanding Clean Air in 2017
By Tom Frantz As the new year begins, residents of the San Joaquin Valley continue to gasp air permeated with pollution levels well above national and world health standards. During the winter, high [...] Continue Reading
When Counting on a President Gets Difficult.
By Richard Gomez You would think that something as basic as counting would be easy as 1, 2, 3… but not so when it comes to elections in the United States, especially one for the office of the [...] Continue Reading
25 Months
By Tiffany A. Potter Well, loves, this month marks our 25th month together. Three Januarys ago was my first column, my very first foray into being a columnist. I had no idea what I was doing, probably [...] Continue Reading
THE TRUMP DISASTER!
By George B. Kauffman When I wrote my last Guest Editorial, “Science Lessons for the Next President,” https://fresnoalliance.com/science-lessons-for-the-next-president December 5, 2016, based [...] Continue Reading
WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR NATION?
By Ruth Gadebusch This past election produced a nation we thought we had grown beyond. Most of us recognized that the population had not all lived up to the high ideals expressed in that document [...] Continue Reading
Community Members Denounce City Council Refusal to Vote on Anti-Slumlord Ordinance in 2016
By Hannah Brandt It is December 8, 2016. A woman says she has been living without heat for weeks, harassed by a landlord who is evicting her even though she pays her rent. Leticia Valencia, a Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Civil Rights Groups Sue Caltrans to Stop Illegal Raids Against California’s Homeless
By Bethany Woolman December 13, 2016: According to a lawsuit filed today by civil rights groups, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is violating the constitutional rights of [...] Continue Reading
The Hidden War Revisited, part 3
By Richard Stone "The Hidden War" is the U.S.'s intensive campaign waged in Laos and Cambodia during the Viet Nam War era that was never sanctioned by Congress or acknowledged by the Johnson [...] Continue Reading