"Freddy" De La Rosa, a 47 year old homeless man who was asleep, is brutally attacked in front of Cuca's restaurant in Fresno's Tower District This happened on Sunday, August 18, 2024. He [...] Continue Reading
Homeless
“Are They Supposed to Kill Themselves?”
Huge Loss at the Supreme Court On April 22, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, a case challenging a long-standing Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision called Martin [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s MAGA Death Squads
Pro tip: If you’re relying on the Supreme Court’s extreme right-wing majority for guidance, you’re doing it wrong. But that’s exactly what the Fresno City Council and Fresno County Board of [...] Continue Reading
Dyer Emergency, Is Harsh Anti-Camping Ordinance Racist?
“Every unhoused individual out here right now is walking on death row. You have now signed every unhoused individual experiencing homelessness in Fresno city their death certificate.” —Advocate Dez [...] Continue Reading
Where Is Our Humanity?
Record-setting 115-degree heat. It is deadly on the streets of Fresno in the intense heat. It’s also deadly because it is City policy to continue encampment sweeps, harass individuals, confiscate [...] Continue Reading
Law, Dis-Order and Insanity
Albert Einstein once said that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The longstanding and ongoing criminalization of poor people, people with [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Trumpism Is Rebranded Racism! Amid this brouhaha about Trump the loser, Trump the leader, Trump the owner of the Right Wing, etc., etc., etc., the underlying question we are missing is: “What is [...] Continue Reading
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$24 Billion Spent and Even More Unhoused People
On April 9, California released an audit of the State’s homelessness funding, including an evaluation of the efforts undertaken by the State to monitor the cost-effectiveness of such spending. The [...] Continue Reading
War on the Poor and Neo-Fascism
To be homeless does not mean I don’t have feelings. To be homeless does not mean I can’t feel how others treat me. To be homeless does not make it okay to assume I am dirty. To be homeless [...] Continue Reading
Where Have All the Public Dollars Gone?
California spent $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness from 2018 to 2022, reported Nick Watt of CNN, on July 11, 2023. His article, “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. The [...] Continue Reading
Dire Circumstances for the Unhoused
Last winter in an e-mail to this reporter, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said that “some people may not believe it, but I really do care about homeless people.” In January 2023, Fresno City Council Member [...] Continue Reading
In Memory of Eddie Montoya
BY SALLIE MAGGARD Eddie Montoya was found deceased on the streets of the Tower District in August 2023, and there was a memorial for him on Sept. 10. His name has been submitted to the National [...] Continue Reading