The newspaper you are holding in your hands right now is pretty special. In fact, there is nothing else like it in this region and perhaps in the whole country. We are a local alternative/independent [...] Continue Reading
Editorial
Letters to the Editor – November 2013
Save the Fulton Mall I keep hearing as an excuse for tearing up the mall “Fresno is a car culture.” Well maybe we need to start weaning off this particular culture and grow up, like other cities in [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – October 2013
I have been a part of the Community Alliance newspaper since we published our first issue in September 1996 and have been the editor since June 1998. What an interesting trip it has been! But things [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – October 2013
A Modest Proposal Wow, what a great newspaper. Many thanks to all the contributors. Stunning piece by Miguel Villega Ventura about the People of the Rain and their progress in decolonizing their [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – September 2013
The culture of death and destruction at City Hall is threatening this community’s most vulnerable residents with a policy that they hope will be the “final solution” to homelessness in Fresno. I was [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – September 2013
Should We Destroy the Fulton Mall to Save Downtown Fresno? Your recent editorial on the Fulton Mall raises several important questions regarding the city’s planned course of action for the mall. The [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – August 2013
By Mike Rhodes The next big thing to create an upheaval in the political/economic landscape of Fresno will be the struggle over downtown development, specifically around the Fulton Mall. Powerful [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – August 2013
Addressing Increase in Water Bills Doubling water bills in one of America’s poorest regions? Shame! Shame on the Fresno City Council if they should dare to double home water bills after years of [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – July 2013
After decades of mismanagement of the city budget by a series of Republican mayors, Ashley Swearengin planned to balance the budget by throwing our award-winning sanitation workers under the bus. The [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – July 2013
Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable Bravo for the riveting Special Edition of the Community Alliance, and hats off to Mark Arax and his students for muckraking work of the highest [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – June 2013
In the middle of May, the Community Alliance newspaper published a Special Edition about the barbaric treatment of the mentally ill in the Fresno County Jail. We have reprinted “Freefall into Madness” [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – June 2013
Fresno County Jail’s Barbaric Treatment of the Mentally Ill (Editor’s note: These are some of the comments that we received in the first two days following the distribution of our Special Edition, [...] Continue Reading