By Lloyd G. Carter In what promises to be a contentious event, the Fresno City Council has scheduled an Aug. 15 public hearing (in the City Council Chamber at 5 p.m.) on a proposal to double [...] Continue Reading
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Letters to the Editor – August 2013
Addressing Increase in Water Bills Doubling water bills in one of America’s poorest regions? Shame! Shame on the Fresno City Council if they should dare to double home water bills after years of [...] Continue Reading
What’s Next for Marriage Equality?
By Kaylia Metcalfe With the Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this summer reopening the doors for California’s same-sex couples to legally tie the knot, hundreds of people have taken advantage of [...] Continue Reading
Reopen and Reassess Chicano History in Fresno
By Jose Luis Barraza The Chicano History: Revisited in Fresno County Committee has been formed to develop a multimedia documentary to honor the history of unsung heroes who were committed to the [...] Continue Reading
Defend Rural America Surfaces
By Chip Ashley As citizens interested in the Carmelita Mine Project cleared the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting chamber on July 9, they were replaced by another, somewhat more [...] Continue Reading
Update on the Carmelita Mine Proposal
By Chip Ashley If Gerawan Farming gets its way, the Carmelita Mine will extract river rock—10–50 pound chunks of round loaf-shaped rocks to be crushed into aggregate—from the alluvium along the east [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – August 2013: Goods Movement in the San Joaquin Valley
By Tom Frantz Members of the San Joaquin Valley Air Board are often heard blaming our pollution problems on the diesel trucks traveling Valley highways nonstop between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. [...] Continue Reading
Kettleman Hills Toxic Waste Landfill Permitted to Expand
By Vic Bedoian In a decision that’s sure to be controversial, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued a draft permit to the Chemical Waste Management Company to expand [...] Continue Reading
California Inmates’ Hunger Strike Against Solitary Confinement Spreads
By Eduardo Stanley (Editor’s note: This article was originally published by VOXXI (www.voxxi.com/calif-hunger-strike-solitary-confinement/)). About 500 people recently traveled from all over [...] Continue Reading
The Fungus Among Us
By Maria Telesco At the time of this writing, a serious medical crisis is looming in two California prisons. Valley fever, which is caused by the sometimes-lethal aspergillus fungus, may be [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press: Conversation with David Carpenter, aka “The Trailside Killer”
By Boston Woodard Editor’s note: This extraordinary interview of David Carpenter by prisoner/journalist Boston Woodard is remarkable, not only for its insight into this fascinating and ongoing story [...] Continue Reading
Interview with Avigdar Adams
By Richard Stone Avigdar (pronounced Avadar) Adams is a multifaceted artist whose talents as painter, photographer and performer are much appreciated by those who know his work. As a photographer, [...] Continue Reading