By Eduardo StanleyPhotos courtesy of Aria Luna When you look at Aria Luna’s painting, you know it’s not kid stuff. It’s paintwork. And then you learn she is a kid. So you take again a look at her [...] Continue Reading
Arts & Culture
The Passing of Zoyer Zyndel
The Community Alliance staff (Editor’s note: Local LGBTQ community leader Zoyer Zynder, 33, passed away on Dec. 26. Circumstances of his death were not made available to the public and were [...] Continue Reading
The Passing of Zoyer Zyndel
The Community Alliance staff (Editor’s note: Local LGBTQ community leader Zoyer Zyndel, 33, passed away on Dec. 26. Circumstances of his death were not made available to the public and were [...] Continue Reading
We Are in This Together
By Mike Rhodes The Community Alliance newspaper is here for you. We are there when you need to know, or want to participate with, who is standing up for economic, social and [...] Continue Reading
A Christian on Socialism
By Ronald Martin (Editor’s note: The following piece is the author's reaction to comments made by KMJ radio host Jim Franklin about Nora O’Donnell’s interview of Kamala Harris on 60 Minutes. The [...] Continue Reading
Music Is Your Only Friend
By Michael D. Evans With shelter-in-place and venues being shut down, live music hasn’t been an option since the pandemic began. And YouTube concerts just aren’t the real thing, although I am [...] Continue Reading
Where Do We Go From Here?
By Mike Rhodes We know about the crisis in the newspaper industry, how the Internet and social media have strangled their primary source of income from advertising and how newspapers all over the [...] Continue Reading
I Am Indigenous
Whitman Style Free Verse Poem by Richard D. Iyall I am indigenous to this land. Yes, I am. Indigenous I am.I am a member of the Cowlitz Tribe, whose sacred landis under siege in Washington, the [...] Continue Reading
Protest for Breonna Taylor in Fresno
By Peter Maiden Alluvial Avenue in front of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Fresno was the site of protests every Friday in June in honor of George Floyd, a Black man who was murdered by [...] Continue Reading
Hedge Fund Commits to Local Journalism in the Wake of McClatchy Takeover
By Vic Bedoian McClatchy newspapers, the nation’s second largest newspaper chain, was purchased at auction by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey–based hedge fund. McClatchy, which began [...] Continue Reading
Tulare County During the Pandemic –The Hard Price of Poverty
A photo essay by David Bacon Gov. Gavin Newsom acknowledged last week that the coronavirus crisis is expanding far faster among eight rural counties in California’s Central Valley than in the [...] Continue Reading