By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (Air District) supposedly had no clue that a local factory, right under its nose in Fresno County, was polluting the air at many [...] Continue Reading
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Shenandoah
By George B. Kauffman Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal by Sue Eisenfeld. University of Nebraska Press, $19.95 (paperback). Award-winning writer, hiker and history lover Sue Eisenfeld [...] Continue Reading
Fulton Mall Update: It Still Can Be Saved
By Ray McKnight On Feb. 27, 2014, the Fresno City Council voted 5 to 2 to proceed with the Fulton Mall Reconstruction Project, a plan to turn the pedestrian-only mall into a street. The city has [...] Continue Reading
AB 953: “We Are Not Targets” March on Sacramento
By Hannah Brandt At 6 a.m. on Sept. 2, a charter bus pulled up to the St. Rest Baptist Church in west Fresno to meet 40 bleary-eyed passengers headed to a rally in the state capital to promote AB [...] Continue Reading
Disability Rights 25 Years and Counting
By Shannon M. Mulhall Picture a person with a disability. Did you picture a person using a wheelchair? Were they playing basketball, a kid in an afterschool program or advising at high levels of [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor: October 2015
By Hannah Brandt Two months ago, I was sipping a Mexican mocha at Café Corazon when the editor of the newspaper I wrote for tapped me on the shoulder. “Hey, how’s it going? I just quit the paper.” I [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor: Difficult Conversations on Race & Culture
By Camille Russell Ernesto Saavedra’s decision to leave the Community Alliance was a surprise and a big disappointment to me and others on the newspaper’s board. We were happy when he accepted the job [...] Continue Reading
Fear-Based Society
By Mike Starry Writing for the Fresno High School newspaper and studying Fresno State sociology helped me understand how in a fear-based society, the power structure can use the media to manipulate [...] Continue Reading
The Why and Wherefore of Our Public Education System
By Ruth Gadebusch Of all the services that government provides, public schools are at the top of my list. Everything else depends on education. We educate to develop an appreciation of how a [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: Memories and Thanks
By Tiffany A. Potter Storyland reopened on Sept. 4, and I couldn’t be happier for it. I consider it a jewel of this town that we live in (a town that outsiders seldom have anything nice to say [...] Continue Reading
Former Migrant to Fresno Advocates for Children in Poverty
By Hannah Brandt Like the migrants and refugees flooding Europe’s shores today, Luan Huynh’s family escaped the ravages of war in Vietnam on a boat. In their case, it was her father’s fishing boat, [...] Continue Reading