New Year, Same Pandemic A new year usually brings the illusion of positive changes for us as well as for the world around us. But the pandemic doesn’t care about our illusions and plays by its [...] Continue Reading
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Letters to the Editor
Responding to a Culturally Insensitive Letter I am deeply troubled that the letter by Donald Slinkard was printed in your newspaper. It is a whitewashing of slavery and genocide celebration. It [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
New Year, New Hope The new year is here with us, and as usual, most people renew their hopes and illusions that things will be better—either at their personal level and/or at a societal [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Nunes Resignation I just read that our lying, deceitful, racist, simply evil man Devin Nunes is planning to resign, to go work for Trump media. What more evidence do we need to support the [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Climate Change or Climate Disaster? The term climate change is misleading in the wrong direction. Earth’s climate has changed many times over millions and billions of years. What is happening [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Housing Costs With higher housing costs drawing speculators to the local housing market, why can’t we have an immediate primary residential limit on all future single-family housing sales? That [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
The Recall Failed: Now What? The “recall Newsom” vote of Sept, 14 failed drastically. “No” won by a big margin, about 62% versus 38%. Curiously, some counties considered conservative voted to keep [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
(Editor’s note: The letters below are in response to “Fourth Grade Student with a History Lesson Confronts School District,” which appeared in the September 2021 issue of the Community Alliance [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Leaving Afghanistan Finally, the United States is out of Afghanistan after 20 years of a failed invasion that left about 2,000 American soldiers dead and countless injured. Billions spent—and lots [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Diversity at FUSDI have taught history/social science for 16 years in high school and middle school. This is my 14th year in Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) as a seventh-grade world history [...] Continue Reading
All in for Vaccinations
California has barely passed the 50% mark of vaccinated residents. Despite the fact that vaccines and vaccination posts are available with almost no waiting in line, even with incentives—$50 gift [...] Continue Reading
Teen Stress
(Editor’s note: The following letter is in regard to an article published in the January 2020 edition of the Community Alliance.) I am concerned that the issues stated in the article, “What to Do [...] Continue Reading