By David E. Roy Author’s note: The “progressive religion” in this column is more implicit and belongs under the social justice expression of many of the world’s religions. In Christianity, [...] Continue Reading
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Death, Dignity, and Fairness
By Mike Starry The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Central California (FCA-CC) will feature keynote speaker Ed Howard of San Diego University’s Center for Public Interest Law at the Annual Meeting of [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Helps to Provide Basic Public Services to the Homeless
By Mike Rhodes At the beginning of this year, the Community Alliance started providing some basic public services for the homeless. Portable toilets and a trash bin were set up on F Street, between [...] Continue Reading
Frederick Soddy: Radioactivity, Isotopes, Social Responsibility of Scientists and the Environment
By George B. Kauffman Amid the kerfuffle caused by John Hutson’s misguided attempts to introduce nuclear power plants into Fresno County despite the recent Fukushima nuclear disaster, I thought [...] Continue Reading
Road Warrior
By Lloyd G. Carter (Editor’s note: In Part 1 of this two-part series, which ran last month in the Community Alliance and was titled “Perdition Road,” the battle over Cascadel Road in mountainous [...] Continue Reading
Queer Eye: Vigilantes in the Tower?
By Dan Waterhouse Down in Fresno’s Tower District, the words hipster and Tower rat are becoming synonymous with scumbag. And a vigilante movement to eject “undesirables” from the neighborhood is [...] Continue Reading
There Is Choice in Addiction Recovery
By Thom Maslowski Addiction touches the lives of many, whether you have a problem yourself or someone you know or love is battling with addiction. Once it was the case that an individual dealing with [...] Continue Reading
Love Is Our License: The 22nd Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba
By Leni V. Reeves We were about 100 people, mostly from Canada and the United States, later to be joined by about a dozen Mexican companeros, in 12 buses, traveling routes throughout Canada and the [...] Continue Reading
Without Police Accountability There Is No Justice
By Mike Rhodes Carrie Gonzales wants to know why her husband Victor, who she says was on the ground with his hands over his head, was viciously attacked by a police dog this summer. She is angry that [...] Continue Reading
Perdition Road
By Lloyd G. Carter Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part series. Part two will run next month. North Fork—Madera County’s most fire-vulnerable mountain subdivision—has gotten a lot more [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – September 2011
Fresno Nuclear Power Plant Seems Unlikely Here is an update to the coverage of the Fresno nuke proposal by Vic Bedoian in last month’s Community Alliance. On July 26, the California Energy [...] Continue Reading
“Governor Supercuts” for President?
By Jim Hightower - Republished with permission GOP-land is all a twitter now that Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced that he’s ready to ascend to the White House. His candidacy was actually [...] Continue Reading