By Ernesto Saavedra “Hell no! The time for remorse would have been when my husband was yelling to breathe. That would have been the time for him to show some type of remorse or some type of care for [...] Continue Reading
Editorial
Are They That Dumb?
By Mike Starry Oil, gas and coal interests spent years blaming President Obama for everything and millions to help elect Republicans in 2014. Their use of diversionary tactics, “Look over there!” and [...] Continue Reading
Beyond: The Journey Toward Living as a Whole Person
By Richard Stone (Author’s note: Below is one of a series of excerpts from a book that will be running for the next few months. Let us know if you’d like to see more.) The book’s introduction [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
By Ernesto Saavedra It’s summer in December. As the leaves of autumn fall to make way for the winter to come, the heartbeat of the street lights up the night sky, emanating a heat that burns down [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – December 2014
Blight in Fresno Is a Major Problem Blight in Fresno is a major problem that many Fresno residents have long had to withstand. Currently, Fresno has more than 250 documented blighted properties in [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor — November 2014
By Ernesto Saavedra “Alicia was a happy person. She called and couldn’t wait to come home,” Margie Kobashigawa said while speaking about her daughter, Alicia Thompson, mother of three, who died of [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – November 2014
California Prison Officials Retaliate against Inmates Who File Staff Complaints As I’m sure you all know, filing a grievance against correctional officers under the eyes of the law is a form of [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – October 2014
By Ernesto Saavedra In Jack D. Forbes’ book Columbus and Other Cannibals, he talks of a horrible, contagious disease widely undetected. “For several thousands of years human beings have suffered [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – October 2014
Clarification My letter in the August edition responding to our editor’s July editorial seems to have been open to misinterpretation. I’ve been asked if my partial disagreement with his commentary [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – September 2014
By Ernesto Saavedra It’s an early Sunday morning in August, we’re recapping the night before—a lot of liquor, a lot of laughs and a lot of “recreational” activities. We’ve just celebrated the going [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – September 2014
Commitment to Nonviolence As a Board member of the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, I’d like to comment on your August “From the Editor” column. In it, you justified various illegal actions (including [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2014
By Ernesto Saavedra In Native American/Indigenous communities, there exists this deep sense of living and thinking holistically. Everything is connected to everything in one way or another. We humans [...] Continue Reading