By Leonard Adame My father fought professionally. He weighed 118 pounds in his prime, but he hit like a middleweight. He always was a brawler, going to dances in the 1930s and picking fights in the [...] Continue Reading
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More Than Taxes
By Ruth Gadebusch Despite all the uproar about taxes—unfair, too little, too much, affecting the wrong people, exemptions, etc.—they are necessary. However, they are not the only wealth sustaining [...] Continue Reading
Social Justice Issues the Focus of Radio Partnership
By Jean Kennedy In 2013, I want to engage my readers in a number of topical conversations with additional questions and answers on my radio shows. On www.BlogTalkRadio.com, I co-host a program with [...] Continue Reading
CHP Targets Farmworkers for Car Impounds
By Pam Whalen In what has become a regular event in the Caruthers area, every year at the peak of the harvest the California Highway Patrol cruisers start showing up in the early morning when [...] Continue Reading
New Marshal in Dodge City: Fresno’s Second Police Auditor Sets Up Shop
By Richard Stone So Fresno has a new person in the Office of Independent Review, with the task of reviewing all cases of an officer-involved shooting (OIS) and auditing the handling of public [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – Dec. 2012: Off the Grid / Discount Shopping
By Kevin Hall Off the Grid If you live in Fresno’s Tower District, Southeast Fresno, West Fresno or downtown, the pollution monitor that measures wintertime particulate levels for your neighborhood is [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – Dec. 2012
An Open Letter to President Obama…from Michael Moore Monday, November 19, 2012 Dear President Obama: Good luck on your journeys overseas this week, and congratulations on decisively winning your [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – Dec. 2012
I went to the grand opening of the Renaissance at Santa Clara in November. The $11 million project was built to provide 69 units (340 square feet each) to help end homelessness in Fresno. If you do [...] Continue Reading
Human Rights Commemoration in Fresno
By Sudarshan Kapoor “Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the [...] Continue Reading
Jesse Morrow Mountain Re-Hearing: On Again, Off Again, On Again
By Chip Ashley The specter of an aggregate mine on Wa-ha-lish (Jesse Morrow Mountain) lives on. On Aug. 28, on a 2-2 vote, with Supervisor Judy Case recusing herself due to a conflict of interest, [...] Continue Reading
A Collective Sigh of Relief
By Michael D. Evans By and large, we had much to be pleased about with the election results in 2012. Yes, there were disappointments locally and there’s considerable uncertainty as to how victory [...] Continue Reading
Cindy Sheehan Will Run for Governor in 2014
By Mike Rhodes Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan was in Fresno last month to participate in a peace march, promote her new book, Revolution, A Love Story, and announce that she is running for governor [...] Continue Reading