By Tom Frantz Central Valley ozone sometimes reaches extreme health-endangering levels in late summer when school starts. These spikes in one-hour ozone levels have been part of the reason that [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Clearing the Air — September 2013: Fracking and Air Quality
By Tom Frantz The biggest stationary sources of air pollution in the southern half of the Central Valley are directly related to oil production. Diesel trucks do not damage our lungs as much as this [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air – August 2013: Goods Movement in the San Joaquin Valley
By Tom Frantz Members of the San Joaquin Valley Air Board are often heard blaming our pollution problems on the diesel trucks traveling Valley highways nonstop between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. [...] Continue Reading
Police Practices Guide Available
The Central California Criminal Justice Committee (CCCJC) presently is distributing their publication of A Student’s Guide to Police Practices in both Spanish and English. The free booklet is [...] Continue Reading
The Way to Town
By Cecile Lusby In 1952, we moved to our grandfather’s ranch on South Fruit Avenue outside Fresno. Will Main and his wife had taken the train from Cheyenne, Wyo., where they saw fruit box labels [...] Continue Reading
Terror Bytes: Edward Snowden and the Architecture of Oppression
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan Edward Snowden revealed himself this week as the whistleblower responsible for perhaps the most significant release of secret government documents in U.S. history. [...] Continue Reading
A Fresno Family Will Get Their Day in Court Against Fresno Police After All
By Daniel Luna Contrary to the apparent wishes of Federal District Court Judge Lawrence J. O’Neil, the circumstances of the murder of Stephen Willis by Fresno police officers Greg Catton and Daniel [...] Continue Reading
Strictest Rules in the Nation? – Clearing the Air – July 2013
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District Board likes to brag about having the toughest air pollution controls in the nation. Unfortunately, given that we have the worst air [...] Continue Reading
Central Library Joins the Fight Against Summer Hunger
Submitted to the Community Alliance The Fresno County Public Library is proud to announce that the Central Library will distribute free meals to youth throughout the summer. Weekdays from June 17 to [...] Continue Reading
Local Activists Travel to Cuba
By Richard Stone The Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) Pastors for Peace is again preparing for its annual breech of the U.S. embargo on trade and travel to Cuba. [...] Continue Reading
Fund-Raiser for Haiti Scheduled July 26
By Cecilia Russ One Source–Haiti is a nonprofit organized by Cecilia Russ, a former longtime resident of Fresno. She has been to Haiti twice and is in contact with teachers and families from the [...] Continue Reading
How Not To Fight Climate Change: Clearing the Air – June 2013
By Tom Frantz Our lungs are being violated by misguided climate change action in Sacramento. Simultaneously, our Valley Air Board is facilitating this environmental injustice. First, some [...] Continue Reading