By Ray McKnight Despite the unfortunate actions by the Fresno City Council on Feb. 27 and the misleading headline the next morning in the Fresno Bee, the destruction of the Fulton Mall is not [...] Continue Reading
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Water and Climate Crisis: The Time To Act Is Now
By Grant Marcus California is experiencing a drought like it has not seen in more than 500 years. High-intensity, high-pressure modern drilling uses tons of sand, unnamed chemicals and industrial [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change
By George B. Kauffman From the thousands of articles that have appeared in in the scientific literature for decades, I am convinced that climate change is a serious problem and is anthropogenic [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Embracing New Sources of Pollution
By Tom Frantz There may be a need to clear up public misunderstandings about different types of air pollution. Under the federal Clean Air Act, there are several different categories of harmful air [...] Continue Reading
The Great Fresno County Bicycle Coalition Tour of 2014: Why It Is What It Is
By Alec Kimmel Whenever I bring up the idea of how great it would be if the City of Fresno focused its efforts to promote bicycle use on the construction of bicycle trails, inevitably someone asks, [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press: Death Row: A Different Perspective
By Boston Woodard I wasn’t sentenced to death before coming to prison, but wound up on death row, not literally where I would eventually be executed via California’s state-sanctioned death penalty [...] Continue Reading
Time to Get Serious
By Ruth Gadebusch It is time for those beyond the agriculture world to get serious about our water. Despite all the talk about the drought, not many seem to be taking it seriously. It is for [...] Continue Reading
Excerpt from Expanding the Yaqui Religious Experience (1989)
By Jesse C. Gonzales “In the beginning...God,” to those who follow Judeo, Christian and Islamic beliefs, that passage is an introduction to the answers that can satisfy many questions concerning [...] Continue Reading
Retroactive Justice Now!
By Ebony Easter My goal in writing this article is to describe the real dangers of psychiatric hospitalization by providing my account of being an inpatient and the important role that justice can [...] Continue Reading
The Struggle to Stop Slumlords in Fresno
By Simone Whalen-Rhodes After years of neglect by the property owners, the Fresno Inn was recently shut down by city officials who declared the property a hazard. The city moved the tenants to [...] Continue Reading
