By Kevin Hall (Editor’s note: As of our deadline, the Fresno Police Reform Commission was next scheduled to meet on August 10.) Like it or not, Fresno is about to take a deep dive into community [...] Continue Reading
Columns
Dereliction of Duty
By Tom Frantz This column has detailed the lack of integrity at the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) for a long time. Kevin Hall wrote about illegal and insufficient [...] Continue Reading
Why Oliver Baines Shouldn’t Head Fresno Police Reform
By Kevin Hall Short answer: He’s a cop. Newly engaged Fresno activists young and old are about to get a fundamental lesson in local politics. That’s because their efforts to radically alter the [...] Continue Reading
Air District Fails Audit
By Tom Frantz For years, San Joaquin Valley clean air activists have railed against the local air district program of emission reduction credits (ERCs). This program allows new polluting projects [...] Continue Reading
Where Is the Freedom in This Land?
Free verse poem by Richard Iyall Why was this country formed, this country called United States? Did notthe founders seek their freedom and their independence from a kingwho ruled its people with [...] Continue Reading
Raisin City Water-Faucet
By Stephen Barile There is a well,a submersible-pump,pressure-tank and archaicbrass-faucet on the end of a steel-pipesticking out of the groundat the south extremity of Raisin City Park,a [...] Continue Reading
Meat Packing and the Coronavirus
Meat packing plants (sometimes described as “disease-ridden flesh factories”) seem to be especially vulnerable to the coronavirus spreading among their workers. It likely has something to do with the [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Angry Right Very Wrong
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Contributor George B. Kauffman Dies at 89
Courtesy of the Kauffman family (Editor’s note: With great sadness, the Community Alliance announces the passing of Dr. George Kauffman, a longtime contributor with dozens of scientific book [...] Continue Reading
Robert Mezey, a Fresno Figure in the Free Speech Movement, Dies at 85
By Community Alliance staff Robert Mezey, award-winning poet, professor and translator, died April 25 from pneumonia at a nursing home in Bowie, Md. He was at 85. Mezey, described as having a [...] Continue Reading
An Empowering Friendship
By Pat Wolk (Editor’s note: Eleanore “Ellie” Bluestein passed on April 7 in Fresno. She was 91 years old. Ellie was born in New York, where she met her husband, Gene. They moved to Minnesota for [...] Continue Reading
Aleha ha-shalom Ellie Bluestein, May You Rest in Peace!
By Jemmy Bluestein The calls, cards and messages have told so many amazing stories of devoted comrades, compadres, friends through the years, and each of their encounters with my mother, Ellie [...] Continue Reading