By Julius Stronghold Has We Are Change Fresno been the target of agent provocateurs? There is a reasonable amount of evidence that We Are Change Fresno, a local activist group seeking to spread [...] Continue Reading
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El Dorado Park: Revitalization or Gentrification?
By Dan Waterhouse On the heels of three people being shot by party crashers at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house across the street from Fresno State in July, students are taking on the campus area [...] Continue Reading
Pulling the Plug on Low-Income Health Funding
By Gary Lasky The Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted on September 20 to reject up to $28 million in federal healthcare funding for Fresno County’s low-income residents. Although there were [...] Continue Reading
Can They Say That?
By Richard Stone A panel discussion on “Media Responsibility, Ethics and Civility” will be held on Oct. 3 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Peters Education Center adjacent to the Save-Mart Center on the [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Caravan an Eye-Opener: Local Caravanistas to Report Back on 2011 Trip
By Gerry Bill Open your eyes, open your ears, open your hearts and learn about life in Cuba. The best way to learn, of course, is to go to Cuba yourself; that would open your eyes for sure. If you [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: Sound Bites
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
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