By Tom Frantz We have suffered the effect of smoke on public health due to the wildfires this summer. It couldn’t be more obvious that serious health impairment comes as a result of breathing the [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Observing the Observers Preserves Democracy
By Kevin Hall In hyped-up times like these, the two-week lag between deadline and publication stretches out like an eternity of gaslit news cycles. Daily newscasts can barely keep up. So here’s a [...] Continue Reading
Meet Marisol Baca, First Latina Poet Laureate of Fresno
By Tim Simmers When Marisol Baca studied poetry at Fresno State in the early 2000s, she heard few women of color or marginalized voices in Fresno’s fertile poetry scene. Even before she became [...] Continue Reading
In Honor of Maria Telesco
(Editor’s note: Richard Stone wrote this article about Maria Telesco for his Credo series in the Community Alliance and then included it in his book Hidden in Plain Sight. We are bringing this article [...] Continue Reading
Chiapas en el Octubre Descolonizador
Por Juan Trujillo Limones Como reacciones de un proceso social descolonizador, las imágenes del derribo de estatuas de conquistadores, líderes coloniales y esclavistas en Chile y Estados Unidos le [...] Continue Reading
¿Qué defensa tenemos contra las acciones ilegales de la derecha?
(Nota del Editor: El pasado 18 de octubre se realizaron elecciones en Bolivia y el partido MAS resultó ampliamente triunfador. Se ignora si el gobierno de facto actual aceptará entregar el [...] Continue Reading
Protecting Indoor Air Quality
By Tom Frantz How many residents of the San Joaquin Valley live in homes with swamp coolers that suck in outside air through a water-soaked mat of loose fibers and that require at least one window [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s End, Fresno County’s New Era
By Kevin Hall “There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.”—Greta Thuneberg, age 16, 2018 We’re nearing the end of the most disastrous presidential [...] Continue Reading
Houston, We Have a Problem!
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji The equation is getting more complex every day. In a normal Presidential election year, the duopoly is focused on presenting their candidates to suit the preferences of the [...] Continue Reading
Hedge Fund Commits to Local Journalism in the Wake of McClatchy Takeover
By Vic Bedoian McClatchy newspapers, the nation’s second largest newspaper chain, was purchased at auction by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey–based hedge fund. McClatchy, which began [...] Continue Reading
California Defers to the Oil Industry
By Tom Frantz For several years, environmental justice advocates in California have lobbied the legislature for a buffer zone between oil production activity and schools, hospitals and residents. [...] Continue Reading
This “Common Ground” Is too Polluted
By Kevin Hall “The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius] and the risk of setting off irreversible chain [...] Continue Reading