The Community Alliance had 4 newsstands stolen from in front of the Fresno County Jail over the last year. You can read more about that story here: Sheriff Margaret Mims confirmed it was her [...] Continue Reading
Media
A Peek Inside the Community Alliance
Dan Yaseen, the only advertising director we have ever had, announced last month he will be leaving the Community Alliance newspaper. Dan’s contribution to the Community Alliance has been huge. There [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Community Alliance Newsstand Stolen I am infuriated by your story about your stolen newsstands. My daughter and I met you over 10 years ago back when you had an office across the street from Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Who Are You Going to Call When Sheriff’s Office Personnel Are the Thieves?
The Community Alliance newsstand in front of the Fresno County Jail has been stolen four times in the past year. After the second theft, we hid a GPS device inside the newsstand to find out where the [...] Continue Reading
Stolen Newsstands and the Struggle for Free Speech in Fresno
The Community Alliance newsstand in front of the Fresno County Jail has been stolen 4 times in the last year. After the second theft, we hid a GPS device inside the newsstand to find out where [...] Continue Reading
Map of Where to Find the Community Alliance Newspaper
Click here: TO VIEW THE LARGER MAP [...] Continue Reading
Newspaper’s Poor Business Sense
By Steven Roesch When you order food in a restaurant, a sensible procedure tends to unfold. You choose items from the menu; the waiter or waitress brings you what you ordered; you pay for those [...] Continue Reading
Gender Equality in the Media Business—Still a Lacking Issue
The Women’s Media Center (WMC) just released its 2021 report on the status of women in U.S. media. The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2021 includes research from academia, industry and professional [...] Continue Reading
25 Years of the Community Alliance Celebrated
More than 120 people came together in the magical garden of Pat Wolk and helped us celebrate 25 years of printing the Community Alliance newspaper. Lance Canales and the Flood welcomed guests with his [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Digital Rich and Digital Poor
In 2019–2020, Fresno County schools enrolled 207,858 students, of which 140,000, or 65%, were Latino and 10,600 were African American. But there are pronounced disparities in the educational [...] Continue Reading
Madera and the Right to a Free Press
The newsstand of the Community Alliance newspaper was removed from in front of the Madera Post Office by order of the Madera Postmaster Henry De La Torre. Of the five newsstands in front of the Post [...] Continue Reading
Providing the Homeless with Reliable Covid-19 Information
The Community Alliance has dramatically increased its distribution to homeless people in Fresno. Our goal is to put truthful and reliable information about Covid-19 in the hands of our ever-growing [...] Continue Reading