By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district), and the local Air Board that controls it, has a problem. The No. 1 air quality issue in the San Joaquin Valley is [...] Continue Reading
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Fresno Police Introduce New Surveillance Technology
By Vic Bedoian On July 7, the Fresno Police Department unveiled a high-technology information center that incorporates video surveillance and intelligence-gathering software to help officers better [...] Continue Reading
Shutting Down the Board of State and Community Corrections
By Quentin Savage On June 26, 2015, members of Californians United for a Responsible Budget gathered to disrupt Phase One of the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) assembly in [...] Continue Reading
To Serve and Protect
By Hannah Brandt On Feb. 23, 2014, 18-year-old Joseph Ma was running with a couple of his buddies. One of them might have had a gun. The former special education student from West Fresno Middle [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County
Tens of Thousands Go Without the Legal Representation the Constitution Guarantees The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, and the law firm [...] Continue Reading
Which Side Are You On My People?
By Luis Ojeda On July 9, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department announced that it had launched a “unique program at [the] Fresno County Jail” that would provide two ICE (Immigration and Customs [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor: August 2015
We are gathered near Edwards Theatre in Fresno’s River Park. Where there is no river and no park, but plenty of things to buy. Everyone is in their Sunday best, looking in our direction. It is as if [...] Continue Reading
Confused & Confusing Conservation
By Ruth Gadebusch Conservation has long been something that we all presumably believe in but recent conditions have really brought it to the forefront. It seems to me that conservation began in [...] Continue Reading
Malcolm X and the Legacy of House Slaves
By Jonathan Luevanos Malcolm X was an African-American intellectual who gave the African-American people in the 1960s a formula for understanding their situations within legal-political institutions [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: Protect Those Dreams
By Tiffany A. Potter This is what I have learned the hard way, dreams are scary to people who have never been taught how to, or given permission to, think big. Whether they were never afforded the [...] Continue Reading
Donald’s “Trumped Up” Accusations
By the Community Alliance (Editor’s note: During a speech at the launching of his bid for the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump made derogatory statements toward the Mexican migrant community. “When [...] Continue Reading
Open the Doors to the Debate
By Richard Gomez The Commission on Presidential Debates is a private firm began in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties leaders to establish the way that presidential election debates are [...] Continue Reading