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The Crockford Files: Election Information – November 2012
By John Crockford Statewide information about the general election, including election results, can be found at www.sos.ca.gov/elections/2012-elections/nov-general/. For county information, here are [...] Continue Reading
Parents and Doctors Sue Clovis School District over Sex Education
By Community Alliance Staff In August, parents and physicians sued the Clovis Unified School District over its high school abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education. The lawsuit charges that the [...] Continue Reading
Building Environmental Justice for Healthy Communities
By Debbie Reyes The Central California Environmental Justice Network (CCEJN) will hold its 2012 biannual conference this month. This year’s theme is “Roots of Resistance: Building Environmental [...] Continue Reading
Supervisors Give in to Cemex Pressure on Jesse Morrow “Re-hearing”
By Chip Ashley Last month, the Community Alliance reported that about two weeks after the Aug. 28 hearing, in which the Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted not to overturn the Planning Commission’s [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – November 2012
By Tom Frantz Fact checking of candidate statements is a useful exercise during an election season. It is a rational response to politicians striving for public approval. Our air board is made up of [...] Continue Reading
This Crow Won’t Fly
By Paul Boden The United States has a long history of using mean-spirited and often brutal laws to keep “certain” people out of public spaces and out of public consciousness. Jim Crow laws segregated [...] Continue Reading
Richard, Dolores and Thanksgiving
By Leonard Adame Richard the third. A good looking man in his 60s. I find him searching a trash can on the mall near Mariposa. He looks at me guardedly and quizzically. “Can I help you out with a [...] Continue Reading
November is Native American Month
By Pepper Heredia Red Fox James stands, holding his horse’s reins, on a cold December day in Washington, D.C. He’s just ridden 4,000 miles, the newspapers say, from either Sheridan, Wyoming or the [...] Continue Reading
American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music
By Frank Delgado Beginning Nov. 17, Arte Américas in Downtown Fresno will feature a traveling Smithsonian exhibit titled American Sabor. The exhibition documents the roles of post–World War II U.S. [...] Continue Reading
Homophobia and the Death Penalty
By Alfonso C. Hernandez The Ice House Theater of Visalia has courageously produced “The Laramie Project,” written by Moises Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theater Project (TTP) and directed by [...] Continue Reading
