By Michael D. Evans Election 2012 isn’t just another presidential election. With the rise of the Tea Party over the past three years and its rapid takeover of the Republican Party, the positive [...] Continue Reading
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The Community Alliance talks with Kevin Hall
Candidate for State Center Community College District, Trustee Area 7 Why are running at this time? I’m running because I see a problem, and I think I can help. The education bureaucracy is too [...] Continue Reading
Police Auditor Hired: How Good Is Half a Loaf?
By Richard Stone As reported in our local daily on Sept. 4, the City of Fresno officially hired Rick Rasmussen as head of the Office of Independent Review (OIR) aka the police auditor. The good news [...] Continue Reading
Travels to the Middle Kingdom—There and Back Again: Lessons for the US
By Gene Richards We Have to Articulate Ourselves Having been overseas for so long and having got used to living in a foreign country, I've seen the tremendous changes that have come to China, but [...] Continue Reading
Soul Calling: A Photographic Journey through the Hmong Diaspora
By Paul Gilmore Over the years—from the time I was a kid in Baraboo, Wisc., to just last week at the bar—I’ve run across a great many people whose formative experiences had something to do with what [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – Oct. 2012
The Importance of Voting Yes on Measure B As voters peruse their ballots for the Nov. 6 election, it is really important to scan to the end of the ballot and vote Yes to renew Measure B. This measure [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – Oct. 2012
Last month, I walked into the Fig Garden Regional Library to deliver a stack of Community Alliance newspapers. Just as I was about to put them on the usual table, I was approached by a librarian who [...] Continue Reading
Atwater’s Financial Crisis
By Montse Reyes Atwater maybe well on its way to bankruptcy, according to some City Council officials, placing among the ranks of other Californian cities such as Stockton and San Bernardino. With [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – Oct. 2012: Particulate Matters a Lot
By Kevin Hall In a presentation before a class of 15 Fresno State seniors last month, I conducted a poll of these intelligent, highly educated, computer-literate, smartphone-owning future entrants [...] Continue Reading
Is the Jesse Morrow Mountain Struggle Over?
By Chip Ashley On Aug. 28, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors did not reverse the Planning Commission’s denial of Cemex’s application to mine Jesse Morrow Mountain. So is this fight to save the [...] Continue Reading
Electoral Strategy from the Grassroots
By Mike Rhodes In September, we asked our readers to tell us their opinions about local, state and federal candidates and the state propositions. We want to share with you their progressive analysis [...] Continue Reading