Citizens for Civility and Accountability in Media (CCAM) is continuing our David-and-Goliath encounter with radio station KMJ. Following the initiation of our ongoing petition drive, the seven [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
Book Review: Labor’s Civil War in California
Photo above is of the book cover from http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/CalWinslow Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers Rebellion does a phenomenal job of bringing [...] Continue Reading
The Living Room to Close
Longtime Fresno HIV/AIDS provider The Living Room will close on June 30 unless a miracle happens. However, director Toni Harrison isn't waiting for that miracle to materialize. She hit the bricks at [...] Continue Reading
Homeless Queer Kids-They Are Here
They don't all leave Fresno for San Francisco or Los Angeles. Among the "unaccompanied youth" and older teens wandering Fresno's streets with nowhere to call home is an undetermined number of gay, [...] Continue Reading
Enriching the Fresno Poetry Legacy
Organizers of the three poetry events in the Fresno Poets' Summer Reading Series 2010, have two motives for their efforts: to support the publication of local poets through the Ash Tree Poetry Series [...] Continue Reading
Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?
Progressive Religion is not an Oxymoron Many social progressives have long been put off by the vast number of Christians who turn their back on those in society who have the greatest need and who [...] Continue Reading
July Poll: Is the City of Fresno doing enough to end homelessness?
Please leave your thoughts and views about the City of Fresno's efforts to end homelessness in 'Comments' below. [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Last month (May), this newspaper received the "Way of Peace" award from the Fresno Center for Nonviolence. J.D. McCubbin introduced me to the overflow crowd at Margaret Hudson's barn, and I accepted [...] Continue Reading
Grassroots Profile
Dan Waterhouse is one of Fresno's premier investigative reporters, author of "Queer Eye" in the Community Alliance and "The Waterhouse Report" in the Community Link, the Valley's monthly for the LGBT [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s DUI Checkpoints Net – Few Drunks but Lots of Cash
Glance at the Fresno Bee most days, and it becomes obvious that, despite Fresno’s standing as “the drunkest city” in the country, the local police department’s “DUI checkpoints” net way more cars than [...] Continue Reading
Stop Hate Radio
Citizens for Civility and Accountability in Media, a community group in Fresno, is calling on radio station KMJ to alter its talk radio format to allow for a wider range of opinions on the air. The [...] Continue Reading
Trip to Israel/Palestine with the Interfaith Peace Builders Delegation
Lynn MacMichael recently returned from one of her many trips to Israel/Palestine, where she joined 32 other delegation members from the United States and Canada for two weeks of meetings and [...] Continue Reading