By George B. Kauffman California, in its fourth year of an unprecedented drought, with no end in sight and water reserves dwindling, is exactly the type of scenario that climate scientists have [...] Continue Reading
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Rainmaker
By Stephen Barile from Tulare Lake To stave off a drought in 1924, Wheat farmers in the Tulare Lake bottom Hired Hatfield the Rainmaker man And paid him a hefty fee, For he was in demand throughout [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – MAY 2015
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday May 14, at 7 p.m., at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK May 6 (first [...] Continue Reading
My 10 Years with the Community Alliance
By Boston Woodard Ten years ago, I was given the opportunity by Mike Rhodes, former editor of the Community Alliance, to correspond as a journalist from behind state prison walls. Because of Ernesto [...] Continue Reading
Beware! The Fresno PD Is Watching Your Online Activities
By Brian Sumner Fresno is the fifth largest and the fastest growing city in California. Combine that with being located in the Central Valley, add a diverse and multicultural population, and Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Now They Are Drafting Our Dollars Instead of Our Bodies
By Gerry Bill The U.S. military used to draft our bodies for war. That practice has been suspended since 1973, although it could start up again at any time. However, the military is still drafting our [...] Continue Reading
Pit River Tribe and Allies Rally to Protect Medicine Lake
By Dan Bacher “Medicine Lake is a sacred place and it needs to be protected at all costs,” said Pit River Tribal Chairman Mickey Gemmill. “We’re trying to preserve our culture and Medicine Lake is [...] Continue Reading
Commemorating the Armenian Genocide: The Importance of Memory and Transformation
By Matthew Ari Jendian “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—Spanish philosopher George Santayana (1905) In 2015, among many other things, we commemorate the 67th [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Reform Fresno Unified By Mark Arax I don’t mean to pick on Ruth Gadebusch. She seems like a perfectly dear lady. Her regular column on education in these pages is a place of quaint ideas. However, [...] Continue Reading
Flipping the Frame, Combating Stereotypes
By Mary McGinnie (Editor’s note: On March 18, Californians for Justice held an event titled FlipTheFrame in Fresno. The premise of the event was to challenge negative stereotypes some may have toward [...] Continue Reading