By Vic Bedoian As federal authorities scour the nation to identify and arrest members taking part in the death and destruction visited upon the U.S. Capitol last week, Briana Calix of the Fresno [...] Continue Reading
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Letters to the Editor: February 2021
History Will Be Kind to Jimmy Carter After watching the wonderful documentary Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President, it is a sobering reminder of how special this man is. No question: Within 50 [...] Continue Reading
Congressional Members Who Sought to Disenfranchise Communities of Color Targeted
By Pilar Marrero (Editor’s note: Seven pro-Trump California Republicans supported the decertification of the November election, and a coalition of grassroots activists of color in their respective [...] Continue Reading
Whitmore Stood at Pinnacle of Mountain Climbing and Conservation
By Vic Bedoian George Whitmore has shaken off his mortal shell and became the stuff of legend for his mountaineering achievements and ceaseless conservation labors. He stood at the pinnacle in both [...] Continue Reading
Welcome Baskets for Crossroads Village Residents
By Beverly Fitzpatrick On Dec. 29, volunteers from Wings Advocacy Fresno (Wings) participated in a special project, providing 165 welcome baskets to those moving, at the beginning of the new year, [...] Continue Reading
Tower Theatre Being Sold
By Peter Maiden The Tower Theatre might be sold to the conservative Christian Adventure Church, and Tower District neighbors are protesting the sale. Around 50 came to an action on Jan. 10. To the [...] Continue Reading
Essential Workers, Love and MLK Jr.’s Lasting Influence
By Benny Corona Martin Luther King, Jr., used to say that we should always believe that there exists inherent value in all of us. And that our worthiness, and somebodiness, cannot be defined by [...] Continue Reading
February for Beginners
By I. smiley G. Calderon There’s truly no better month to refresh and renew your personal outlook and yearlong goals—a perfect time to really reevaluate and reignite your year’s focus and plan—than [...] Continue Reading
Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Sudarshan Kapoor (Editor’s note: The following comments were delivered by Dr. Su Kapoor at MLK events in mid-January.) Jan. 18 was a federal holiday in honor of Dr. King’s 92nd birthday, [...] Continue Reading
Power of Fire Destroys
By Janet CapellaPhotos by Peter Maiden The Creek Fire started on Sept. 4, 2020, the first day of Labor Day weekend, in the isolated woodland between Big Creek and Huntington Lake. The final embers [...] Continue Reading
Our “Right to Know” When Pesticides Are Applied
By Nayamin Martinez and Sarah Aird The San Joaquin Valley is often called “the food basket of the world” because it is one of the major agricultural producers in the United States. Two of the [...] Continue Reading
Hope for Clovis
By Michael D. Evans Educator Noha Elbaz, a Democrat, is seeking election to the City Council in Clovis. That’s not a typo. Elbaz is a Democrat running because the Clovis City Council “needs new and [...] Continue Reading