By Chip Ashley If Gerawan Farming gets its way, the Carmelita Mine will extract river rock—10–50 pound chunks of round loaf-shaped rocks to be crushed into aggregate—from the alluvium along the east [...] Continue Reading
News
Clearing the Air – August 2013: Goods Movement in the San Joaquin Valley
By Tom Frantz Members of the San Joaquin Valley Air Board are often heard blaming our pollution problems on the diesel trucks traveling Valley highways nonstop between Los Angeles and the Bay Area. [...] Continue Reading
Kettleman Hills Toxic Waste Landfill Permitted to Expand
By Vic Bedoian In a decision that’s sure to be controversial, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued a draft permit to the Chemical Waste Management Company to expand [...] Continue Reading
The Fungus Among Us
By Maria Telesco At the time of this writing, a serious medical crisis is looming in two California prisons. Valley fever, which is caused by the sometimes-lethal aspergillus fungus, may be [...] Continue Reading
Police Practices Guide Available
The Central California Criminal Justice Committee (CCCJC) presently is distributing their publication of A Student’s Guide to Police Practices in both Spanish and English. The free booklet is [...] Continue Reading
Interfaith Social Justice Collaborative Calendar – August 2013
Compiled by Fresno Metro Ministry ISJC Mission Statement: To network and collaborate as we work to serve and promote systemic change for the common good; to educate and inspire one another to positive [...] Continue Reading
Hands Off Social Security Benefits!
By Gene Roza On July 2, activists from the Fresno area were joined by groups from the Modesto and Stockton areas on a bus to the Bay Area to protest cuts to Social Security along with more than 500 [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files – August 2013
By John Crockford Access to Government Information “Transparency” and “access to information” are key terms in the struggle for an open and democratic society, and we expect our governments to [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Deteriorating Core Neighborhoods: A Product of Developer-Planned Suburban Sprawl?
Will Fresno’s 2035 General Plan Update Survive the Usual Developer Rewrites? By Bob Merrill Are Fresno’s mayor and City Council serious about making Fresno’s downtown more viable, or is it merely [...] Continue Reading
Poison Gas and Arabian Tales: Dispatches from the Edge
By Conn Hallinan “It is not unlike Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark. It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack, it is that we are not seeing what we would expect to see from a [...] Continue Reading
Homeless Encampments Targeted (Again)
By Mike Rhodes In the next couple of weeks, homeless people who live in downtown Fresno will be forced from their shelters and told to move on. The driving force of this relocation is the Poverello [...] Continue Reading
Anniversary Differences: Science, Civil Rights and Religion
By George B. Kauffman This is a big year for anniversaries. In science, especially chemistry and physics, the fields with which I’m most familiar, the centenary of discoveries is uniformly and [...] Continue Reading