By Boston Woodard My being released from prison story is complicated; I don’t even know where to begin. I was supposed to have been released March 20, 2017. On that date, I was picked up by two [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Clearing the Air
By Tom Frantz The 2018 SJV State of the Air Report is not the American Lung Association annual report, which goes by a similar name. In that report, ozone and particulate pollution are separated [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
By Tom Frantz The 2018 SJV State of the Air Report is not the American Lung Association annual report, which goes by a similar name. In that report, ozone and particulate pollution are separated [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: New Year’s Resolutions
By Tom Frantz The new year is a time to make amends for past failures and determine better courses for the future. Our Valley air board should do so. What better action could there be than for the [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: The Myths That Stole Christmas
By George B. Kauffman The Myths That Stole Christmas: Seven Misconceptions That Hijacked the Holiday (and How We Can Take It Back) by David Kyle Johnson, Humanist Press, 1777 T St. NW, Washington, [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: The Myths That Stole Christmas
By George B. Kauffman The Myths That Stole Christmas: Seven Misconceptions That Hijacked the Holiday (and How We Can Take It Back) by David Kyle Johnson, Humanist Press, 1777 T St. NW, Washington, [...] Continue Reading
Book Review: Tending the Epicurean Garden
By George B. Kauffman Tending the Epicurean Garden, by Hiram Crespo; Humanist Press, 1777 T St. NW, Washington, DC 20009; 2014, paperback, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-931779-53-4. According to ancient [...] Continue Reading
A Tribute to My Father: Leonard Adame
By Maria M. Adame Leonard Adame was born Sept. 2, 1947, to Jessie and Trinidad C. Adame. He had two brothers, Ronnie Eredia and Trinidad Adame III, and three sisters, Monica Adame, Maria Adame [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Mary Nichols, please help us!
By Tom Frantz In 1989, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) placed an air quality ozone monitor on the east side of Arvin. It was built into a shipping container and placed in the yard of the [...] Continue Reading
Poetry Corner – December 2018
What Is Christmas? By Richard D. Iyall, Cowlitz Christmas is the time of year to be with those you love; for sights and smells, for jingle bells; the shining star above; for ice and snow, for [...] Continue Reading
West Fresno
A Community Town Hall was held for West Fresno voters at the Cecil C. Hinton Community Center on Oct. 13. The crowd was addressed by Miguel Arias and Tate Hill, candidates for Fresno City Council [...] Continue Reading
My #MeToo Experience
By Stan Santos For many years, I wondered where my childhood went. We were all children of the 1960s. We rode bikes and watched It’s a Wonderful Life and the Wizard of Oz on a black-and-white [...] Continue Reading