By Vic Bedoian Over 500 people from around State converged in San Luis Obispo on February 4 and 5 with the goal of halting a project that would bring mile-long oil trains through the heart of that [...] Continue Reading
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From the Editor – March 2016
By Hannah Brandt You, our readers, know that we are in a fundraising drive. Thanks to your help we were able to print the March edition! To celebrate our achievements, continue our efforts, and thank [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – March 2016
SCHOOL BUDGETS By Raymond F. Ensher The recent forums put on by the Fresno Teachers Association were well done and most informative. With an $800 million budget it is vital to implement the issues [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Dairies and Climate Change
By Tom Frantz Around 3% of California’s greenhouse gas emissions come from dairy cows. Most of these emissions are from industrial sized milk factories found in the San Joaquin Valley. The emissions [...] Continue Reading
My Hustle Hiatus
By Tiffany A. Potter Here’s what I know as fact: I’ve lost my mind. I am knee deep in launching a global company and I can’t even remember my own phone number. I literally had to take a screen shot [...] Continue Reading
Long Time Fresno Activist Says Chief Dyer Has Got To Go
By Ellie Bluestein A reporter from The Fresno Bee asked what I thought about the conclusions of the recent internal report conducted by Michael Josephson Institute at the request of the Fresno Police [...] Continue Reading
Reclaiming Dr. King and Rally for Justice at Fresno Pacific
By Hannah Brandt and Karen Crozier “Why America May Go to Hell” was to be one of Martin Luther King’s sermon in April of 1968. He gave it as a speech at a march of striking sanitation workers in [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Is Our Middle Name: But what does it really mean to be progressive?
*** The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC *** By Mike Rhodes There is a controversy, mostly being played out on the national stage, about what it means to be [...] Continue Reading
Rite of Passage
On November 30, 2014, I received the rite of baptism at Community United Church of Christ in Fresno, CA. It was my third baptism: the first took place at a Methodist church in Illinois when I was an [...] Continue Reading
FULTON MALL SUPPORTERS TO APPEAL DEMOLITION RULING
By Doug Richert The Downtown Fresno Coalition (DFC) was formed to promote responsible revitalization of downtown Fresno. Focusing on preserving Fulton Mall, one of DFC’s most abiding concerns is to [...] Continue Reading
El Molcajete del Diablo
By Leonard Adame The sky is at its most ominous in the desert--it is the repository of snake-eyed glints, a place where molcajete stone is born distance doesn’t exist there nor does it in the [...] Continue Reading
USE THAT VOTE
By Ruth Gadebusch It surely appears very early in the game to be so fully engaged in an election, but like it or not it is all engulfing. The importance of this coming election cannot be denied. My [...] Continue Reading