By George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman All the major medical advances of the last century garnered Nobel Prizes. However, we have never understood why Carl Djerassi, the father of the [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Who Came First, the Chicken or the Prisoner?
By Daniel Tregila The hunger strikes launched here in the Pelican Bay Special Housing Unit (SHU/solitary confinement) in 2011 was based on decades of the use and abuse of solitary confinement against [...] Continue Reading
Tiffany’s Take: I Love Office Supplies
By Tiffany A. Potter I always have. And not just “I don’t mind that I have to go to Office Depot today,” but the “I need to find a reason to go to Office Depot today” kind of love. Since as early as [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Unborn Child Most Affected by Air Pollution
During 2014, there were 150 days in the San Joaquin Valley when monitors recorded air pollution levels that were either “unhealthy for sensitive groups” or worse. These are the Orange days on the air [...] Continue Reading
Fiction from the Inside: The Writings of G.A. Lycett
By Boston Woodard Prisoner writers run the gamut. Whether it is poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenplays or other writing genres, many of these men and women take their literary efforts seriously. I [...] Continue Reading
Philip Levine: As I Remember Him
By Alex Vavoulis Philip Levine came to Fresno in 1958 with his wife Francine to join the English faculty at Fresno State College (now California State University, Fresno) and retired in 1992. During [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air– Fireplace Madness
By Tom Frantz San Joaquin Valley residents may have noticed there are new air district rules this year for wood burning in fireplaces and woodstoves. There have been ridiculous ads on TV recently with [...] Continue Reading
We Will Miss Les Kimber
By Mike Rhodes The progressive community in Fresno lost an important voice for peace, social and economic justice last month. Les Kimber passed away on Jan. 10 at the age of 80. While Kimber was known [...] Continue Reading
The Death of a Peaceful Warrior
By Irene Serrano The original director of the Chicano Youth Center, Alfonso Hernandez, has died at the age of 64. A native of Fresno, he graduated from Central High, attended Fresno City College and [...] Continue Reading
One Girl’s Journey Through Conscious Living– The Theory of Everything
By Tiffany Potter I should tell you up front that this is not a review of the movie. Truth be told, I have little interest in critiques of any kind (movie, theater, movie, book, etc.). No, this isn’t [...] Continue Reading
International Darwin Day 2015
By George B Kauffman As our nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the entire world is preparing to celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin, who is ranked alongside our [...] Continue Reading
Marjorie Cohn on Drone Warfare: Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective
In the anthology Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues, [...] Continue Reading