By Mike Bridges An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot on board. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers within the [...] Continue Reading
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Rating the Rater: The Office of Independent Review Issues First Quarterly Report
By Richard Stone Rick Rasmussen, our Man in the O.I.R. (Office of Independent Review), has been on the job for about four months and has filed his first report. I met with him to discuss the impact [...] Continue Reading
The Prison Press” Ex-Iranian Hostage Visits San Quentin; Prison Isolation Strikes Chord
By Boston Woodard and Juan Haines Independent journalist Shane Bauer spent 26 months in an Iranian prison, four of those months were in isolation. In 2009, Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – March 2013: Scapegoating Our Air Quality Problem
By Tom Frantz More than obesity and poverty, polluted air is shortening the lives of Central Valley residents. The marginal cost of our early deaths and degraded quality of life is around $6 billion [...] Continue Reading
Voters Likely to Weigh in on Privatization
By Michael D. Evans Opponents of Mayor Ashley Swearingen’s plan to privatize residential sanitation service, which had been approved by the outgoing Fresno City Council in December 2012, gathered [...] Continue Reading
Studies Prove: Knowing More Than Other People Makes You Happy!
By Kaylia Metcalfe OK, I’ll admit it. I skim. I see headlines, I nod along if I agree, shake my head if I don’t and many times move on to the next sensational headline in my Facebook newsfeed. (Or, [...] Continue Reading
Chowchilla Freedom Rally
By Diana Block On Jan. 26, more than 400 people from across California rallied, marched and chanted to protest extreme overcrowding, deteriorating healthcare and constant lockdowns in the women’s [...] Continue Reading
WILPF – March 2013
WILPF BUSINESS MEETING March 14, Thursday, 7PM, at Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N Van Ness. This meeting is open to all members. WOMEN IN BLACK March 6, first Wednesday of each month at noon [...] Continue Reading
UFW to Sponsor Immigration March
By Community Alliance Staff Utilizing a recent change in state law, the United Farm Workers (UFW) is working to negotiate contracts with two local farmers, Gerawan Farming out of Fresno County and DP [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Voice! – March 2013
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji Getting In the Way I am writing this column on Valentine’s Day 2013. The Fresno County Clerk has just confirmed that more than the requisite number of signatures has been [...] Continue Reading
The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
By Michael Hogan One of the least-known stories of the Irish who came to America in the 1840s is that of the Irish battalion that fought on the Mexican side in the U.S.-Mexico War of 1846–1848. [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Say No to Trash Privatization
By Michael D. Evans At the time of our press deadline, opponents of Mayor Ashley Swearengin’s plan to privatize the City of Fresno’s residential sanitation service had just delivered about 40,000 [...] Continue Reading