By Mike Rhodes Kate* is a retirement age homeless woman, she has breast cancer and until recently lived in a tool shed at the Poverello House (a social service agency for the homeless in downtown [...] Continue Reading
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The Lavender Convention 2014
By Chris Jarvis As we all know, there’s a vault of hard feelings between many in the LGBT community and religious institutions. It goes back to the dawn of time and despite our recent gains in [...] Continue Reading
Times They Are a-Changing
By Kaylia Metcalfe In 2008, everything changed. I had always written about politics, but that summer, my posts and articles began to become more and more LGBT related as the impending vote on Prop 8 [...] Continue Reading
International Women’s Day Celebrated Through the Arts
By Omequetzal Lopez On the weekend of March 7, Dulce UpFront, a Fresno-based community multimedia arts collective, in collaboration with various organized groups and individuals, held a three-part [...] Continue Reading
Earth Day 2014
By George B. Kauffman Earth Day, the world’s largest secular holiday and only event celebrated by more than a half billion people of all backgrounds, faiths and nationalities, is sponsored by many [...] Continue Reading
News from Peru
By Ingrid Carmean As a Peace Corps volunteer, I’ve been working in the Santa Cruz area of the town of Cerro Candela, Peru, helping the residents to obtain ready access to water. We have achieved step [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Housing Authority Votes to Comply with the Brown Act
By Mike Rhodes On March 19, the Fresno Housing Authority (FHA) board of directors voted on a by-law change, bringing them into compliance with the Brown Act. The board voted that the public has the [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – April 2014
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING WILPF will meet Thursday, April 10, 7 p.m., at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK April 2, first [...] Continue Reading
Preparing for War with Russia
By Bruce Gagnon I’ve been writing for many years about U.S.-NATO efforts to militarily surround Russia. The oil-i-garchy wants to get ahold of the natural gas (the world’s largest supply) that sits [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Strictest Air Pollution Rules Not in San Joaquin Valley – April 2014
By Tom Frantz The Central Valley Air Quality Coalition (CVAQ) and other air quality advocates have long stated the need for tighter rules on the Valley’s biggest stationary sources of pollution. [...] Continue Reading
Crockford Files: Put a Fresh Face on Your PC or Laptop with Linux
By Stan Perkins Microsoft is discontinuing support for Windows XP effective mid-April 2014. This announcement caused many in the business world great alarm. Corporate users have grown dependent on [...] Continue Reading