By Boston Woodard During my youth, I was no doubt the poster child for irredeemable miscreants. I was a young thug running wild, unchecked, with no respect for others. I was a criminal. In 1973, I [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Clearing the Air: Ozone Implosion
By Tom Frantz As the dust-reddened sun rose over the city, residents reluctantly crawled out of bed shaking off headaches from oxygen deprivation due to a night of breathing dirty air. Talking heads [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Link to Chemistry Week
By George B. Kauffman In his official proclamation, Fresno Mayor Lee Brand cited the following reasons for declaring October 22–28 National Chemistry Week (NCW) in the City of Fresno: Chemistry [...] Continue Reading
Veteran and Antiwar Activist Col. Ann Wright Comes to Fresno
By Joshua Shurley Colonel Ann Wright (retired) will speak on Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Community United Church of Christ (5550 N. Fresno St.). Colonel Wright spent 29 years in the U.S. Army and Army [...] Continue Reading
A Response to Brooke Ashjian Regarding the Armenian and LGBT Communities
By Hanna B. Smith Editor’s note: This article was originally published by LGBT Fresno and is republished with [...] Continue Reading
All in for Huron
By Michael D. Evans Huron is a peaceful town, far from anything urban. It sits in southwest Fresno County about 15 miles from Coalinga—about an hour’s drive from Fresno. As of the 2010 Census, Huron [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: The Lesson
By Tiffany A. Potter Someone recently asked me what the biggest, most profound, most life-changing lesson is that I have learned, to date. Which was curious to me given that I had just (“just” as in, [...] Continue Reading
Ten Things You Should Know About Ashjian
By Kaylia Metcalfe Editor’s note: The original version of this article was published in Perhaps We Learn https:// perhapswelearn.blogspot.com/, and this edited version is republished with [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Sierra Forests and Air Pollution
By Tom Frantz We know that most of our air pollution comes from industrial operations and mobile sources. But this pollution does not just stay in the air that we breathe on the Valley floor. Summer [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: What Now?
By Tiffany A. Potter Today is deadline day and also coming off of this weekend’s events in Charlottesville. I’ve been staring at this computer screen for the better part of two hours. Blank almost in [...] Continue Reading
Gay Central Valley Board Announces Cessation of Operations
By Gay Central Valley Editor’s note: This article was published originally at Gay Central Valley at www.gaycentralvalley.org. Gay Central Valley officially formed as a nonprofit in January 2009. [...] Continue Reading
Why Boston Woodard Does Not Have an Article in this Month’s Newspaper
By Mike Rhodes Boston Woodard was paroled from the California prison system in March of this year but was immediately transferred to the Solano County jail, held on unknown charges. Many readers of [...] Continue Reading