By Gerry Bill Open your eyes, open your ears, open your hearts and learn about life in Cuba. The best way to learn, of course, is to go to Cuba yourself; that would open your eyes for sure. If you [...] Continue Reading
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Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: Sound Bites
By David E. Roy Author’s note: The “progressive religion” in this column is more implicit and belongs under the social justice expression of many of the world’s religions. In Christianity, [...] Continue Reading
Death, Dignity, and Fairness
By Mike Starry The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Central California (FCA-CC) will feature keynote speaker Ed Howard of San Diego University’s Center for Public Interest Law at the Annual Meeting of [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Helps to Provide Basic Public Services to the Homeless
By Mike Rhodes At the beginning of this year, the Community Alliance started providing some basic public services for the homeless. Portable toilets and a trash bin were set up on F Street, between [...] Continue Reading
Frederick Soddy: Radioactivity, Isotopes, Social Responsibility of Scientists and the Environment
By George B. Kauffman Amid the kerfuffle caused by John Hutson’s misguided attempts to introduce nuclear power plants into Fresno County despite the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster, I thought [...] Continue Reading
Road Warrior
By Lloyd G. Carter (Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this two-part series, which ran last month in the Community Alliance and was titled “Perdition Road,” the battle over Cascadel Road in mountainous [...] Continue Reading
Queer Eye: Vigilantes in the Tower?
By Dan Waterhouse Down in Fresno’s Tower District, the words hipster and Tower rat are becoming synonymous with scumbag. And a vigilante movement to eject “undesirables” from the neighborhood is [...] Continue Reading
There Is Choice in Addiction Recovery
By Thom Maslowski Addiction touches the lives of many, whether you have a problem yourself or someone you know or love is battling with addiction. Once it was the case that an individual dealing with [...] Continue Reading
It’s Here! It’s Yours! It’s Free!
By Maria Telesco The long-awaited, updated, revised and redacted edition of A Taxpayer’s Guide to the California Death Penalty is so fresh from the printer the ink is barely dry. It’s authored by [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner: The Question
Edited by Richard Stone Visalia’s Uncle Bill does it again with a really fine mind-twisting poem definitely needed in the wake of the 10-year commemoration of 9/11 used as another opportunity for [...] Continue Reading
Love Is Our License: The 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba
By Leni V. Reeves We were about 100 people, mostly from Canada and the United States, later to be joined by about a dozen Mexican companeros, in 12 buses, traveling routes throughout Canada and the [...] Continue Reading
9/11: Black Op by Rogue Network within the Military/Industrial Complex
By Carl Bosco When John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, it was immediately evident that several shooters had done the job, not just Lee Harvey Oswald and his cheap rifle with the twisted sight. [...] Continue Reading