By Hannah Brandt In case you’ve missed it, there is an election this month. It is the California Primary on June 7th. In most presidential election years, by the time the California Primary rolls [...] Continue Reading
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Letters to the Editor- June 2016
FAIR WAGE By Raymond Ensher Evidently, Fresno business chamber leader Al Smith (letter, 1-30) has not been watching “Undercover Boss.” The employees who appear state they need a fair wage so they do [...] Continue Reading
Sir Harold W. Kroto (1939-2016), Obituary
By George B. Kauffman Sir Harold W. Kroto, the progressive scientist known for his efforts in science advocacy who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize [1] for his role in discovering the buckyball, a [...] Continue Reading
THE MANY AND VARIED FRESNOS
By Ruth Gadebusch The map may indicate Fresno as one place but for those of us who live in and observe the area we know there are many segments. All too often these different areas, and their sets of [...] Continue Reading
Gray
By Tiffany A. Potter Most days this is where I live, in the gray. The older I get the more acutely aware I am that life is not black and white; but rather, a perpetual shade of gray. We’re most [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Air District Claims Success While Air Quality Worsens
By Tom Frantz The American Lung Association (ALA) has once again confirmed, in their annual report, that San Joaquin Valley residents are breathing the worst air in the nation and subsequently [...] Continue Reading
Green Party Primary 2016
By Richard Gomez A person who has taken a bold step forward and out of the wreckage that is considered politics by registering with the Green Party generally identifies with Green values. That person [...] Continue Reading
Voting Progressive in the California Presidential Primary
By Yezdyar “Yez” Kaoosji By the time this newspaper is distributed readers will have barely a week left to vote for a truly progressive candidate in the California Presidential Primary. So, where [...] Continue Reading
Earth Day Fresno 2016
By Richard Iyall Earth Day Fresno 2016 was celebrated on Saturday, April 23, 2016 at Radio Park. It was the perfect day for people in Central California to show their gratitude to the wonderful water [...] Continue Reading
AT&T 2016 Shareholders Meeting: CWA Activists vs “Business as Usual”
By Stan Santos Communications Workers of America District 9 is in a struggle with AT&T for the jobs and livelihoods of almost 16,000 members in California and Nevada. Over a dozen members from [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County Public Defender’s Office Under Fire from ACLU
By Amanda Tripp A lawsuit accusing the Fresno County Public Defender’s office of providing inadequate defense will continue to move forward; mid-April Judge Mark Snauffer ruled in favor of allowing [...] Continue Reading
CVPPAC – June 2016
**This Content is Paid for By the Central Valley Progressive PAC** CVPPAC Endorses Perea for Mayor After decades of Republican mayors in this city, we have the highest concentration of poverty in the [...] Continue Reading