“Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” Jesse “Big Daddy” Unruh, Speaker California Assembly 1961–1968 Influence Of Money On Local Races On June 2 Fresno held its primary elections for [...] Continue Reading
Local Politics
A Point in Time: Fresno, Madera Leaders Fail to Reduce Homelessness
The United States Department of Housing and Urban development requires communities to regularly administer Point in Time (PIT) surveys to count the local unhoused population. The survey, [...] Continue Reading
El análisis de un votante preocupado sobre la contienda por el Concejo Municipal de Fresno
La influencia del dinero en las contiendas locales “El dinero es la leche materna de la política.” Jesse “Big Daddy” Unruh, presidente de la Asamblea de California, 1961–1968 Fresno celebró sus [...] Continue Reading
Three Cents on the Police Budget
REFLECTIONS FROM THREE MEMBERS OF FRESNANS FOR A PEOPLE’S BUDGET Bootstraps Aren’t Real But This Bridge Called My Back Is BY ARIEANA CASTELLANOS I come from a long matriarchal line of healers [...] Continue Reading
El presupuesto policial: la perspectiva de un padre del sureste de Fresno
$251 MILLONES: eso es cuánto de nuestros dólares, ganados con el sudor de los contribuyentes, asignó el Concejo Municipal de Fresno al Departamento de Policía (FPD) para 2026. Para 2027, el alcalde [...] Continue Reading
More Police, Hiring Freeze for Other Departments
On May 14, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer proposed a $2.55 billion budget for fiscal 2027. The budget includes funding for 21 City departments and new investments including many in capital improvements—$1 [...] Continue Reading
District 7 City Council Candidates
The residents of Fresno City Council District 7 will be voting to elect a new Council Member on the June 2 primary. District 7 is currently represented by Nelson Esparza who has been “termed out.” The [...] Continue Reading
April Marches On
Supes Put Measure C Cart before Horse At their March 17 meeting, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors received a presentation for a proposal backed by Chair Garry Bredefeld (District 4) and his [...] Continue Reading
As the Worm Turns: Bring Back Boring Bureaucracy
The March 3 Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting opened with a typically zealous invocation, delivered by Pastor D.J. Criner of Fresno’s Saint Rest Baptist Church. Criner maximized appeals [...] Continue Reading
Serving Rural Communities
Michael Evans has produced this informative slide show about the Community Alliance effort to serve the rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley. You can see the slide show below. This is a .pdf [...] Continue Reading
Mayor Makes Controversial Remarks at MLK Event
In a speech to a crowd of 1,000 at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration in downtown Fresno on Jan. 19, Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer, also the former police chief of the city, seemed to blame protesters [...] Continue Reading
The Central Valley Progressive PAC
Sponsored pageFebruary, 2026 [...] Continue Reading