The culture of death and destruction at City Hall is threatening this community’s most vulnerable residents with a policy that they hope will be the “final solution” to homelessness in Fresno. I was [...] Continue Reading
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OUR Walmart: United for Respect at Walmart
By Georgette Carrillo Big box stores, once hailed for their one-stop shopping convenience, vast parking lots, 24-hour shopping convenience and retail taxes for local coffers, appear to be losing [...] Continue Reading
Summer of Lesbians on TV
By Kaylia Metcalfe As we head into September and the inevitable start of the fall television season, let’s take a look at LGBT characters on TV: currently a little lesbian heavy, but moving in the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – September 2013
Should We Destroy the Fulton Mall to Save Downtown Fresno? Your recent editorial on the Fulton Mall raises several important questions regarding the city’s planned course of action for the mall. The [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Voice: Charting a Progressive Course
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji This column is a compilation of views of several individuals with a long record of accomplishment as progressive activists in the Central Valley. Five questions framed the [...] Continue Reading
The Elected: Meet the City Council
By Richard Stone This is the first of a series in which I will be asking for interviews with each sitting member of the Fresno City Council. We began this month with Blong Xiong, who unhesitatingly [...] Continue Reading
An August Vacation
By Simone Whalen-Rhodes Congress has just taken a five-week recess in August and only has two bills to vote on the whole month of September. Their continued gridlock and dysfunction has caused many [...] Continue Reading
ACLU: Because Freedom Can’t Defend Itself
By Bill Simon It’s the time of year again for the Fresno Area Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to celebrate—the beginning of its seventh year as a chapter. On Sept. 9, from 5:30 [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files — September 2013
By John Crockford More on Government Information Accessibility Last month (https://fresnoalliance.com/?p=8110), this column began to explore accessibility to public information through government [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air — September 2013: Fracking and Air Quality
By Tom Frantz The biggest stationary sources of air pollution in the southern half of the Central Valley are directly related to oil production. Diesel trucks do not damage our lungs as much as this [...] Continue Reading
Get Fresnans Enrolled
By Ellen Wu For decades, low-income childless adults and individuals who had to buy their own health insurance have been left to fend for themselves. But all that is about to change. On Jan. 1, [...] Continue Reading
International Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Start of the Cuban Revolution
By Leni Reeves The Cuban Revolution started 60 years ago, and it was a hard start. In fact, nothing afterward has been easy either. Blockaded and attacked by the most powerful empire in human [...] Continue Reading