By Radley Reep Fresno County’s long-range land-use planning is in shambles, and local officials and county residents are sparring over how to deal with the situation. Rather than cooperating to [...] Continue Reading
Activism
Oil Production Blues
By Tom Frantz California’s 140-year-old oil company, Chevron, has been in the spotlight recently in Kern County. It is not good news. Chevron is in the process of losing a significant chunk of the [...] Continue Reading
Veterans for Peace Leverage Their Voices at Annual Convention
By Joshua Shurley Recently, in eastern Washington, hundreds of veterans, their families and supporters gathered—not to glorify their status or promote military service, but rather to organize to [...] Continue Reading
Lies, Misinformation, Theft and Threats to Our Freedom of the Press by Our Own Local Government
By Mike Rhodes In May of this year, a Community Alliance newsstand went missing on the corner of Kern and N streets, just outside a Starbucks. Peter Maiden, the newspaper’s distribution manager, [...] Continue Reading
From California to Oaxaca and Back
By Patsy Mejia Recently, I had the distinct privilege to participate in a pilot program initiated by the Mexican consulate aimed at reconnecting university students with parents or grandparents of [...] Continue Reading
Lights for Liberty
By Peter Maiden On July 12, Fresno was one of more than 700 cities around the world holding a “Lights for Liberty” vigil to protest the situation of immigrants. Many, including infants, toddlers [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor — August 2019 — Musick Creek Confluence Property
Musick Creek Confluence is purchasing 134 acres of forest land near Shaver Lake (we are in six-month escrow, with five months to go!). The price is small, the value is great. We have been caring for [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Women Discuss Politics in Fresno
By John Bruce Only seven months after electing their first female president, the Fresno County Young Democrats (FCYD) held a panel centering on women in Central Valley politics. Four women spoke [...] Continue Reading
AB 617 Not Working
B Tom Frantz In 2017, the California legislature extended cap-and-trade (AB 398) until 2030 as the key mechanism for reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions. Major emitters of CO2 must buy [...] Continue Reading
Action Needed Now on Family Shelters
By Kayla Moon A homeless mother is mourning the loss of her three-month-old daughter who died in a Fresno motel. According to the Fresno County Coroner’s report, the cause of death is believed to [...] Continue Reading
A Family’s Journey
By Dez Martinez Naszar’ie Maray Butler Sunrise: April 3, 2019 Sunset: July 14, 2019 Akifa and Denny (mother and father) became homeless in October 2018 in Fresno. Akifa looked for [...] Continue Reading
Disaster Response in Cuba
By Leni Villagomez Reeves In Comunidad Castanedo, Elsida Martinez described surviving the tornado that hit her Guanabacoa home on the night of Jan. 27. “It sounded like a hundred airplanes or [...] Continue Reading