By Hannah Brandt It’s been twenty years of Community Alliance! Can you believe it? There have been many twists and turns in the story, shown so vividly by the tapestry of past covers that our layout [...] Continue Reading
Editorial
Letters to the Editor – September 2016
Why I Am Not a Patriot By Jacob Clark In America, especially during an election year, there is major pressure to be patriotic. The loudest and most bellicose patriotic noise tends to come from the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2016
By Hannah Brandt Never ending gun violence continues to plague us. It happens in every corner of the world like a cancer. People often say that cancer does not discriminate because people of all [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor – August 2016
Food Not Bombs Hi, my name is Brittney Fairburn. My boyfriend, Ruben Jimenez, and I have been in charge of running the Sunday Food Not Bombs meals for many years. Food Not Bombs receives donations [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – July 2016
By Hannah Brandt As you can imagine, I really do not know where to start this month. Last month seems like a world away. The entire Earth seems to have changed in a manner of weeks. Of course, in [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor – July 2016
Nancy Waidtlow It feels so good to find out how far the news has spread that there is a better way to treat our homeless population, and to find there are good people out there who see that [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – June 2016
By Hannah Brandt In case you’ve missed it, there is an election this month. It is the California Primary on June 7th. In most presidential election years, by the time the California Primary rolls [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor- June 2016
FAIR WAGE By Raymond Ensher Evidently, Fresno business chamber leader Al Smith (letter, 1-30) has not been watching “Undercover Boss.” The employees who appear state they need a fair wage so they do [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – May 2016
By Hannah Brandt Thanks to you, we live to fight another day! On April 16, 2016, the newspaper held Community Alliance: The Next Generation, a fundraiser to keep the newspaper going. About 100 people [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – May 2016
TENURE MUST BE PROTECTED Alex Vavoulis A Los Angeles Times article appeared in The Fresno Bee (4/18/16) with the title: “Tenure ruling a blow to reform backers.” The Appeals Court was correct to [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – April 2016
By Hannah Brandt We are overwhelmed by your generosity during our fundraising drive this spring! Thanks to you we were able to print not only the March edition, but this April issue, as well. We now [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – April 2016
Abbott’s Story By Richard Stone I want to thank the editors of the Alliance for including my piece “Abbott’s Story” in the March edition. However, it was missing two important pieces of context. 1) [...] Continue Reading