Each month, the Community Alliance arrives at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence in the back of a truck. It comes in bundles on pallets, stacked about five feet high. If you’ve ever wondered about how [...] Continue Reading
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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
County Supervisors Contradict Constituents on ICE
“We’re deeply concerned that Fresno County supervisors held a [Jan. 13] press conference to support ICE, while ignoring the real harm ICE raids are doing in tearing families apart across the Central [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The December 2025 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the December 2025 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Fundraiser a Huge Success
The Dec. 6 Community Alliance fundraiser filled the room with energy, diversity and optimism—and, best of all, raised enough funds to keep the newspaper in print for the foreseeable future. The [...] Continue Reading
Tower District Crime Report
On Nov. 7, Rych Withers, KFCF 88.1 FM station manager, was dropping off some mail at the Tower District Post Office when he noticed a man taking all the Community Alliance newspapers from the [...] Continue Reading
Juan Esparza, Una Vida Dedicada al Periodismo del Valle
Después de casi medio siglo reportando una gran variedad de noticias y aportando punzantes columnas de opinión en inglés y español, Juan Esparza Loera se jubiló de su puesto en el periódico The Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Keep Us Alive!
The Community Alliance newspaper is in a financial crisis. The worst crisis I have seen in the 28 years that I have been a part of the paper. We have reduced our expenses, staff have taken draconian [...] Continue Reading
The November 2025 Issue of the Community Alliance
You can read the .pdf version of the September 2012 Community Alliance below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier reading. Simply place your cursor over [...] Continue Reading
A Conversation with Ian Masters
On Nov. 15, Ian Masters will be the keynote speaker at the KFCF/Fresno Free College Foundation annual banquet. Masters hosts the nationally syndicated news analysis radio program Background Briefing, [...] Continue Reading
KFCF Honored with Fresno’s Horizon Award
For a small radio station, KFCF, with its unique and eclectic blend of offerings, has left a big footprint in Fresno throughout its 50 years of broadcasting in the Valley region. All the while, the [...] Continue Reading
Reliving Fresno’s Progressive Past
If we don’t want the government (particularly the Trump administration) telling us what to think, it is time for a people’s history of Fresno. The Community Alliance is doing its part by making an [...] Continue Reading