Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable Bravo for the riveting Special Edition of the Community Alliance, and hats off to Mark Arax and his students for muckraking work of the highest [...] Continue Reading
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Guest Editorial: Unions Fight to Take Democracy Back from Billionaires
By Art Pulaski California’s century-old ballot initiative system is broken. Ballot measures are supposed to be tools of participatory democracy that give everyday citizens a voice in our process. But [...] Continue Reading
2012 City of Fresno Salary Information
According to the Fresno Bee, 80 City of Fresno employees make more than $130,000 a year. Five employees make more than $200,000 a year. Are these government bureaucrats willing to make the same [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – July 2013
By John Crockford Spying on Everyone: Much Ado about Nothing!?! The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF; www.eff.org/), an organization that battles for digital freedom in the courts, has published [...] Continue Reading
Strictest Rules in the Nation? – Clearing the Air – July 2013
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District Board likes to brag about having the toughest air pollution controls in the nation. Unfortunately, given that we have the worst air [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press: Feather River College “Incarcerated Student Program”
By Boston Woodard Six years ago, the faculty and staff at Feather River College (FRC) in Quincy, Calif., made what they were sure would be a historic decision. Professor Joan Parkin said the fateful [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Voice: Moving Beyond Measure G
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.—Charles Darwin Collaboration is the [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Against Fracking Is Organized
By Gary Lasky Fifteen Fresno activists met on June 10 to share concerns about the impending “fracking” boom in the San Joaquin Valley and launched a new group, Fresnans Against Fracking. The group [...] Continue Reading
Fracking California Legislative Update
By Gary Lasky The oil and gas industry in California is essentially without adult supervision. Existing regulations are either drafted by, or approved in advance by, the oil industry. This status quo [...] Continue Reading
Expanding Natural Gas Exports Would Encourage Natural Gas Fracking in California
By Tom Cotter Increasing America’s natural gas exports to other nations may sound like benign economic policy, but it is anything but. In reality, oil and gas giants and others with a track record [...] Continue Reading
Futurism, Shakespeare, Sierra Vocal and B.H.
By Alfonso C. Hernandez Filippo Tommaso Marinetti in his “Manifesto of Futurism” (1909) published in Paris’ Le Figaro on Feb. 20 wrote the major principles of futurism among which were the loathing [...] Continue Reading
Central Library Joins the Fight Against Summer Hunger
Submitted to the Community Alliance The Fresno County Public Library is proud to announce that the Central Library will distribute free meals to youth throughout the summer. Weekdays from June 17 to [...] Continue Reading