(Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Fresno Bee on Aug. 28.) Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced his opposition to current governor Gavin Newsom’s [...] Continue Reading
Columns
SOS! SOS! SOS!
Did you hear that glub, glub, glub sound like the last gasp for air before sinking irretrievably under the water? Or was it our forefathers turning over twirling in their graves as the mob’s feet [...] Continue Reading
Political Privilege, Pipelines and Pollution
(Editor’s note: The author has contributed to the Sandra Celedon for Assembly campaign.) Turns out the privilege that sees mediocre students ushered into top colleges as legacy admissions and [...] Continue Reading
Words Are Insufficient
Never did we expect to see our nation collapse—explode?—in slow motion in our time. We have long known that all the great empires of history had sooner or later collapsed, but we thought we were the [...] Continue Reading
California Democrats’ Collapse
With Governor Gavin Newsom firmly in the lead, the Golden State’s Democratic Party is collapsing faster than an alpine glacier. Buried beneath the landslide of their servile politics are homeless [...] Continue Reading
Measure C Conclave Convenes
The doors have slammed shut and the public pushed out of the Fresno County transportation sales tax renewal effort’s inner sanctum. The great unwashed are being told to pray for the best and wait for [...] Continue Reading
A Sad State of Affairs
It isn’t just our nation in a sad state of affairs but our entire world for which we have long been considered the leader. Actually, it isn’t just sad, it is frightening. Yes, I know the older [...] Continue Reading
Gorging at the Public Trough
While covering the recent special election win by Brandon Vang to the Fresno City Council District 5 to replace newly elected Fresno County Supervisor Luis Chavez, I dug into the campaign finances of [...] Continue Reading
Chavez Hails Trump, Costa Caves
The tentacles of the ongoing fascist coup d’etat are touching Fresno in some surprising and not so surprising ways. Trump’s blitz on the rule of law, taken right from the 1933 Nazi playbook, revealed [...] Continue Reading
A Glimmer of Hope
Following the results of the November 2024 election, hope has been in short supply. Previous experience with the man elected President left no room to hope that someone thought inadequate for the job [...] Continue Reading
A Different Country, but Better?
We will definitely have a different country starting Jan. 20. On that date, Donald Trump will take office as the new President of the United States. The changes he promised during his campaign and [...] Continue Reading
A Fresno Christmas Classic
What better escapist fantasy for enlightened Fresnans to enjoy than a night at the Tower Theatre watching Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life, that classic tale of a socialist affordable-housing [...] Continue Reading