“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the [...] Continue Reading
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Letters to the Editor
Parks Near Freeways Are Disgusting By Barbara Christl (Editor’s note: This comment is in reference to “More Poison Parks Planned” in the February 2015 issue.) Thank you Kevin Hall for continuing to [...] Continue Reading
Carl Djerassi, Father of the Pill, Dies at 91
By George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman All the major medical advances of the last century garnered Nobel Prizes. However, we have never understood why Carl Djerassi, the father of the [...] Continue Reading
Dividing the School District Will Not Solve Anything
By Ruth Gadebusch Once again, a group is advocating dividing the Fresno Unified School District. This time it is an east-west divide, apparently thinking they are so clever in including affluent and [...] Continue Reading
Who Came First, the Chicken or the Prisoner?
By Daniel Tregila The hunger strikes launched here in the Pelican Bay Special Housing Unit (SHU/solitary confinement) in 2011 was based on decades of the use and abuse of solitary confinement against [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: I Love Office Supplies
By Tiffany A. Potter I always have. And not just “I don’t mind that I have to go to Office Depot today,” but the “I need to find a reason to go to Office Depot today” kind of love. Since as early as [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County on Cannabis Collision Course
By Michael S. Green As medical cannabis patients and social users turn their attention toward adult-use legalization in 2016, Fresno County continues to preach the gospel of pot prohibition. The [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Unborn Child Most Affected by Air Pollution
During 2014, there were 150 days in the San Joaquin Valley when monitors recorded air pollution levels that were either “unhealthy for sensitive groups” or worse. These are the Orange days on the air [...] Continue Reading
Cesar Chavez Celebration
By Willie Lopez On March 26, the 15th annual Cesar Chavez celebration will take place sponsored by El Concilio de Fresno and the Fresno Unified School District (FUSD), along with the Cesar Chavez [...] Continue Reading
Living in a Violent World, Some Principles of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor We live in a tempestuous and troubled world torn apart by political divisions, religious intolerance, racial prejudice, violence and conflict almost in every sphere of our [...] Continue Reading
Upcountry from Delano
The offenses of Mammon are legion, but greatest is the offense against the vine— this is to wound the heart of Dionysos and Christ. Here, under the banners and the burned faces, I see the simple [...] Continue Reading
Human Rights?
By Leni Reeves The news is that representatives of the United States and Cuba met to discuss restoration of diplomatic relations. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Roberta Jacobson has emphasized [...] Continue Reading