Valley Air Inhumane I drove from Oakland to L.A. through the San Joaquin Valley in late June 2013 and on a recent weekend. I was shocked by the severe air pollution. I remember a trip over 10 years [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
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
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
Internet Essentials Learning Zones in Fresno
By Community Alliance Staff Comcast is providing a $100,000 grant to nonprofit community organizations to create Internet Essentials Learning Zones in Fresno. Internet Essentials is a comprehensive [...] Continue Reading
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week: Restoring the Balance of Justice
By Community Alliance Staff The Office of Victims of Crime (OVC) has designated an annual National Crime Victims’ Week, and it will be observed April 6–12 this year. The theme of this year’s Victims’ [...] Continue Reading
Drone: A Participatory Memorial
By Teresa Castillo Fresno State’s Center for Creativity in the Arts (CCA) has invited artist Joseph DeLappe and his Drone Project to be the Spring 2014 artist-in-residence. The theme, Data and [...] Continue Reading
Victory in Idaho Illustrates Progressive Movement
By Kaylia Metcalfe The Supreme Court of Idaho ruled last month in a case lauded as a sign of good things for future cases regarding same-sex couples and adoption—but before we celebrate too widely, [...] Continue Reading
Rogue Still Reeling Along
By Stephen A. Mintz The Rogue Festival’s 13th year started planning about 15 minutes after the 2013 festival ended, started chugging on Feb. 27 and steams along for the entire first week of March, [...] Continue Reading
Remembering Pete Seeger: The Local Connection
By Ellie Bluestein (Editor’s note: Pete Seeger was an American folk singer and activist who died on Jan. 27. Other media have presented wonderful reflections of his life and those can be easily [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files: Access to Government Information Revisited
By John Crockford A letter (www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/13/3712545/online-access-to-fresno-courts.html) from the media coordinator of the Fresno Superior Court to the editor of the Fresno Bee on Jan. [...] Continue Reading