Fresno’s infamous Bitwise Industries saga continues as court proceedings are scheduled this summer, and chatter persists about the embroiled company and its scheming co-CEOs, Jake Soberal and Irma [...] Continue Reading
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Taxpayer Deception Act Pulled from November Ballot The California Supreme Court released an opinion on June 20 ordering the Secretary of State to “refrain from taking any steps” that would [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Rent Control in Delano? In a groundbreaking effort to address the housing affordability crisis, concerned citizens of Delano have turned in thousands of signatures to qualify a rent control [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The April 2024 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 April 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are [...] Continue Reading
Bitwise: No One Belongs Here More Than You
A dozen or so stunned techies gathered early during the evening of May 29 last year at Root Access Hackerspace, a modest location in Fresno’s Tower District where they were surrounded by computers, 3D [...] Continue Reading
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The March 2024 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 March 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are [...] Continue Reading
Isabel De La Torre Murdered by the Clovis Police
A police dog was used by the Clovis Police to extract 35-year-old Isabel De La Torre, an unarmed woman, from her bathroom. The dog bit and drug the woman out as officers quickly forced her face [...] Continue Reading
The February 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online
Progressive, Local/Independent News You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the February 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow [...] Continue Reading
The January 2024 Issue of the Community Alliance is now online
Progressive, Local/Independent News You can read the print version of the paper at the link below. This is a .pdf of the January 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. There are features that allow [...] Continue Reading
Merced County Falls Short
(Editor’s note: The following article is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, a nonprofit newsroom based in Merced.) During its last meeting of the year, the [...] Continue Reading
Progressive, Local/Independent News
The December 2023 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 2023 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading
Planada Flood Relief Plan Remains Unfinished
(Editor’s note: The following article is printed with the permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative, a nonprofit newsroom based in Merced.) Planada residents were left feeling [...] Continue Reading