By Tom Frantz There is a bill before the current legislature in California that is mislabeled as a project appropriate for greenhouse gas reduction funding. This bill is numbered AB590 and is [...] Continue Reading
Activism
WILPF – September 2015
PLEASE JOIN US IN CELEBRATING WILPF--FRESNO 50TH ANNIVERSARY AND WILPF--INTERNATIONAL CENTENNIAL Dangerous Women: 50 Years in Fresno, 100 Years Internationally Inspiring historical and educational [...] Continue Reading
Union Brothers
By Leni Reeves Bold Step is the name of an event that will be held on Sept. 5 and 6 in Delano, hosted by the Filipino American Historical Society, honoring the Filipino roots of the Delano [...] Continue Reading
Climate Change: A Turning Point for Political Action at Last?
By George B. Kauffman Charles D. Keeling (1928–2005) was the first to alert the world to the anthropogenic contribution to the “greenhouse effect” and global warming. In 1958, he set up an infrared [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Grand Deception | Drought and Air Quality
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district), and the local Air Board that controls it, has a problem. The No. 1 air quality issue in the San Joaquin Valley is [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Police Introduce New Surveillance Technology
By Vic Bedoian On July 7, the Fresno Police Department unveiled a high-technology information center that incorporates video surveillance and intelligence-gathering software to help officers better [...] Continue Reading
Shutting Down the Board of State and Community Corrections
By Quentin Savage On June 26, 2015, members of Californians United for a Responsible Budget gathered to disrupt Phase One of the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) assembly in [...] Continue Reading
To Serve and Protect
By Hannah Brandt On Feb. 23, 2014, 18-year-old Joseph Ma was running with a couple of his buddies. One of them might have had a gun. The former special education student from West Fresno Middle [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County
Tens of Thousands Go Without the Legal Representation the Constitution Guarantees The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, and the law firm [...] Continue Reading
Which Side Are You On My People?
By Luis Ojeda On July 9, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department announced that it had launched a “unique program at [the] Fresno County Jail” that would provide two ICE (Immigration and Customs [...] Continue Reading
Open Letter to the Air Resources Board
By Cherylyn Smith (Editor’s note: This letter was sent June 24, 2015, to the Air Resources Board.) (Author’s note: The California Air Resources Board (ARB) has held two workshops since June 19, which [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Vigil Commemorated Deaths of 47 Victims of Oil Train in Canada Two Years Ago
By Ronald J. Martin About 40 Fresnans gathered, many wearing black, to memorialize the 47 people who died in a fiery explosion of a runaway train of tank cars that an oil company sent down the track [...] Continue Reading