By Elsa Mejía Dear Reader, The annual Community Alliance fund-raiser on June 15 drew about 100 longtime and new supporters of our newspaper to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fresno. For [...] Continue Reading
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Fresnans Weigh In on the Trump Presidency
By Michael D. Evans Interested Fresnans gathered in mid-June at the Democratic Party HQ in downtown Fresno for what was billed as a Mueller Report Town Hall. Following an analysis of the report, [...] Continue Reading
Immigrant Advisory Committee
By Samuel Molina It has been more than two years since President Donald Trump took office and began repealing the progress that had been made by immigrant advocates. This has created chaos, [...] Continue Reading
In Crisis: Fresno County Long-Range Planning
By Radley Reep Fresno County 2000–2020 General Plan In the 1990s, dissatisfied with escalating urban sprawl and chronic poverty in the Central Valley, a cadre of concerned citizens—including [...] Continue Reading
America’s Own Death Camps
By Robert Navarro On social media and elsewhere, there is much resort to memes and breathless discussion that compares the complex of camps along the U.S. southern border and prior “camps” as in [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: A Just Transition
By Tom Frantz There is no question the earth is warming rapidly because of human activity. Our inability to fully accept this looming disaster has resulted in insufficient public action to quickly [...] Continue Reading
Candidates for Fresno City Council District 2 Special Election
By Howard K. Watkins Many might not know, but there is yet another special election in Fresno this year set for Aug. 13. Northwest Fresno’s City Council District 2 seat became open when Republican [...] Continue Reading
Public Resists Plans to Drill for Oil on Valley Public Lands
By Gary Lasky and Ron Martin The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) this year rolled out its latest proposal to auction off public lands for oil and gas drilling, following a federal court’s [...] Continue Reading
Join Us on June 15 to Help Keep Free Speech Alive
By Community Alliance Staff Community Alliance readers, advertisers, contributors and supporters are invited to join us for a fund-raiser on June 15. As you are aware, we are experiencing a crisis [...] Continue Reading
Fresno: A City Evolving
By Kayla Moon The Central Valley has some of the most impoverished communities in the nation and appears to always get the short end of the stick in regard to resources and representation. Mendota, [...] Continue Reading
Conference at Fresno State Highlights Women in Soccer
By Peter Maiden The Valley Public History Initiative, also known as Historia Pública, is building an archive of materials related to Central Valley soccer. The project is called “The Other [...] Continue Reading
Sanctions, Embargo, Blockade: Siege Warfare by Another Name
By Leni Reeves The basic concept of siege warfare is to surround a civilian population that has been designated “the enemy” and to prevent supplies, especially of food, from getting in until [...] Continue Reading