The September 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 September 2024 Community Alliance newspaper. [...] Continue Reading
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Bitwise: A Dream Dies Hard
Irma Olguin Jr. wore a black top with a white dress jacket and gray slacks. Her co-defendant, Jake Soberal, wore a dark blue suit. In federal court in Fresno on July 17 they looked calm and confident, [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Briefs
Lay of the Land Central Valley Matters directly funds several grassroots groups that are active in the Central Valley’s Congressional District 22. All the groups have been vetted for their work in [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Guaranteed Basic Income Program
The Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission (EOC) will administer a $1 million pilot anti-poverty program by providing 150 qualifying families (75 from Huron and 75 from the city of Fresno) [...] Continue Reading
Delano Sued Over a Bottling Plant
In April, the Southern San Joaquin Municipal Utility District (the “District”) filed a lawsuit against the City of Delano (“Delano”) over the newly established Niagara water bottling plant. The [...] Continue Reading
Bitwise: Fact versus Fantasy
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
Central Valley Briefs
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
Progressive, Local/Independent News
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