There’s fresh rot at the core of Fresno politics. Sprawl developers have long controlled land-use decisions by simply providing cash to City Council members and candidates, but infection rates in the [...] Continue Reading
Toxic Tsunami Headed for Fresno
By Kevin Hall Increased diesel exhaust in people’s lungs has a secure future in Fresno. Despite being the focal point of groundbreaking studies by Stanford and UC Berkeley concluded more than a [...] Continue Reading
Climate Equity: How We Win Panel
Wednesday, April 21, at 6 p.m. Host: Mike Rhodes of the Community Alliance newspaperModerator: Kevin Hall, host of Climate Politics on KFCF 88.1 FMTo be recorded for future broadcast.See the [...] Continue Reading
Fracking the Valley
By Kevin Hall California plays a critical role in the future of our planet. Widely regarded as one of the world’s leading governments among the many facing the parallel crises of destabilizing [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change – Special Section
The Community Alliance newspaper will print a special section on climate change in April 2021. Climate activist Kevin Hall is putting together articles, photos and other illustrations because, [...] Continue Reading
Air Pollution Trifecta Hits Fresno
By Kevin Hall A trio of life-endangering air pollution events hit Fresno early last month. Unlike the smoke from last summer’s wildfires or this winter’s fireplaces, these threats weren’t found in [...] Continue Reading
Make “C” Stand for Climate, Community
By Kevin Hall Twenty years ago, local business and political leaders learned an important lesson at the ballot box: People really want clean air. That’s why in 2002 voters rejected the first [...] Continue Reading
“Disappointed” Enough for Change?
By Kevin Hall The year 2020 tied 2016 as the hottest in human history. Other new records were set for Arctic heat and wildfires, tropical storms in the Atlantic, and locally, the Creek Fire, the [...] Continue Reading
Covfefe Affects City Leader Cognition
By Kevin Hall Key terms: COVID19—acronym for COronaVIrus Disease of 2019; covidiots—people who ignore COVID19 safeguards; Covfefe—a gathering of two or more covidiots. A local election night [...] Continue Reading
Georgia, HBCUs and the Fate of Humanity
By Kevin Hall “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of [...] Continue Reading
Observing the Observers Preserves Democracy
By Kevin Hall In hyped-up times like these, the two-week lag between deadline and publication stretches out like an eternity of gaslit news cycles. Daily newscasts can barely keep up. So here’s a [...] Continue Reading
Punch a Nazi, Vote Biden
By Kevin Hall People need hope. They need help. Desperately. And while it’s been that way for many years, now it’s growing exponentially. Five long years ago when that golden, gelded steer of [...] Continue Reading